Highlights: This week we visited the DVLA in Swansea, went to their executive board and met the team working on 1 of the 23 exemplar transactions which are being redesigned to meet the digital by default service standard. DfE (Department …
Today we launched the Government Service Design Manual. It sets out the agreed Digital by Default Service Standard, and provides tools, guidance and code to help teams across government achieve it. It meets one of our 14 commitments in the …
“The start of a process that will transform how we provide services...to make them...fit for the 21st Century – agile, flexible and digital by default”. That was how Francis Maude described the Government Digital Strategy, published in November 2012. You …
Highlights this week - many more services make their transition to GOV.UK, including content with an international flavour in the form of the new Worldwide section. The policy content has also been strengthened with the addition of 15 new policies. …
This week GOV.UK is up for the Designs of the Year awards at the Design Museum and the exhibition opened on Wednesday, the Department for Culture Media and Sport released a new intranet using GDS services and design rules, and …
A busy end to the week. We announced the beta release of the Digital by Default Service Standard and the changes to the CIO profession yesterday. We also had visits from Brian McBride, Sir Peter Bazalgette, and a delegation of …
Today we announced some small but important changes in governance. The detail is here but the upshot is: we won’t have a cross-government Chief Information Officer (CIO) any more, nor a Head of Profession for Information and Communications Technology (ICT). …
This week started with the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, and saw the beginning of work alongside HMRC on their exemplar services. We're also gearing up for the beta release of the digital by default service standard next week.
Two big releases this week, with the new additions to Inside Government and the release of the Content Explorer, and we've visited DFID and the Student Loans Company up in Scotland.
We're just back from an all-staff meeting, which was a great chance to see what teams throughout GDS have been up to over the last few weeks. We've also had meetings with the National Audit Office and the Efficiency and …
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