Digital, Data and Technology

GDS Local goes live

Liz Adams, Service Owner, GDS Local, GDS and Theo Blackwell, Local Government Champion, GDS Local, GDS, 24 November 2025 - Digital Centre, Digital engagement, Digital strategy, Digital, Data and Technology, GDS team, GOV.UK, GOV.UK One Login

GDS Local is a new unit within the Government Digital Service (GDS) that brings central and local government together to improve how digital public services are designed and delivered. Working alongside councils, we’re helping create services shaped around real lives—easier to use, better connected and built on proven digital foundations.

Using Privacy Enhancing Technologies to Enable International Data Sharing

Mark Durkee, Head of Data Architecture, GDS, John Smith, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Lead, GDS, Bardia Guevel, Public Health Registrar, NHSE and Sarah Stevens, Deputy Director National Disease Registration Service, Public Heath Consultant, 9 October 2025 - Data, Digital strategy, Digital, Data and Technology

Hear from the GDS team, in collaboration with colleagues in NHSE, on the results of their pilot using novel Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to enable international data collaboration on ultra-rare childhood cancer data.

How GDS partners with the OECD on Digital Government

Tim Paul - Head of Interaction Design, Government Digital Service and Farah Hussain - Governance and Multilateral Organisations Manager, GDS, 25 November 2024 - Digital, Data and Technology

Our new post highlights our work with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), reviewing digital government in the Republic of Korea.

Sharing data and lessons from our Google Analytics 4 upgrade

Anne Cremin - Senior Performance Analyst, GDS and Ian Ansell - Senior Performance Analyst, GDS, 27 March 2023 - Data

What we've learned about GA4 so far, and how to sign up for access to our data, Data Protection Impact Assessment, and schema.

The Single Data Environment: joined-up digital analytics

Daisy Wain - Lead Performance Analyst for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service and Tina Mermiri - Head of Data Services, Government Digital Service, 17 October 2022 - Data, User research, Ways of working

How GDS plans to unlock actionable insights through end-to-end visibility of whole user journeys, ultimately enabling better data-driven decisions.

GDS Advisory meets with suppliers in Manchester hub

Lucy Taylor, GDS Advisory Support Officer, 24 May 2022 - Digital, Data and Technology

Government Digital Service Advisory held an event with their commercial suppliers on 11 May at the GDS offices in Manchester. Working together with suppliers, they discussed innovative ways of improving processes and management tools.

Using documentation-driven development for GOV.UK Sign In

Pippa O’Driscoll - Technical Writer, Government Digital Service, 9 May 2022 - Digital, Data and Technology, GOV.UK, Transformation

Learn how GDS is using documentation-driven development in the One Login for Government programme to help build and improve digital identity services.

Podcast: How to start a career in tech

The GDS Team, 17 December 2021 - Digital, Data and Technology, GDS team, People and skills, Podcast

Three developers from the Government Digital Service discuss common misconceptions about tech careers, and how to get started.

Podcast: Technologists at GDS

The GDS Team, 26 July 2021 - People and skills, Podcast, Technology

Himal Mandalia and Louise Ryan join Louise Harris on this month’s podcast to chat about the breadth and depth of what technologists do at GDS.

The next steps for digital, data and technology in government

Joanna Davinson, Government Chief Digital Officer and Tom Read - Chief Executive Officer, Government Digital Service, 6 April 2021 - Digital strategy, Digital, Data and Technology, GDS team, Transformation

Tom Read, CEO of GDS, and Joanna Davinson, Executive Director of the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), provide an update on the future for their respective organisations.