From Solr to elasticsearch
Search is right at the centre of GOV.UK. It’s the main focus of the homepage and it appears in the corner of every single page. Many of our recent and upcoming apps such as licence finder also rely heavily on …
Digital, Data and Technology
Bank Holiday story - is it really simpler, clearer, faster?
At GDS we iterate. One of the key contributions to that iteration is the post change checking to make sure that the users needs truly have been met and that the rules of the game have not changed. Peter Jordan, …
Data Driven Delivery
Every year, central and local government serve citizens and businesses through one and a half billion transactions.
The SEO war - fighting the good fight in search
At GDS we’re using search data to inform every aspect of content production. It’s no dry data analysis though, search logs reveal surprising insights about what people really want. Lana Gibson, Product Analyst at GDS, explains how understanding search behaviour …
Introducing the Digital Performance Framework - Alpha release
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Adam Bailin - former Lead Data Analyst, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data, Technology
Managing transactional services is a complex task and can be quite bewildering with many systems and measurements involved. However, because we have digital tools and technologies, we can now pull...
GCloud phase 2 - Apply now!
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Mark O'Neill - former Head of Innovation and Delivery, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Technology, Transformation
...writing to encourage suppliers to apply for the next round of the GCloud framework because I need to buy cloud services and GCloud is how we will buy those cloud...
Digesting cookies
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Ade Adewunmi - former Head of Data Infrastructure, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data
An understanding of how cookies work is the first step in helping people to make informed decisions about the impact of these technologies on their online privacy.
Estonia's technology economy and online service provision- back to the future?
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Technology
This week I spent a few days visiting Estonia with Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, Liam Maxwell, the new Deputy CIO and colleagues with Cyber Security responsibilities. We...
Open Standards consultation - important update
On 4th April 2012, Dr Andy Hopkirk facilitated a roundtable on behalf of ICT Futures on Competition and European Interaction. Liam Maxwell, Deputy Government CIO, examines the appropriateness of this...
Open Standards consultation needs you!
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Linda Humphries - former Senior Technology Adviser, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Technology
...we are aware that sometimes there just isn’t time to read pages of consultations. So in an effort to make sure that no one potentially affected by the outcome of...
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