Podcast: Technologists at GDS
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.
Technology
You can find more information about technology on the dedicated Technology in government blog.
What we learnt from the first phase of the GovTech Catalyst
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Harry Vos - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK Forms, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, Service design, Technology
We finished the experimental first phase of the GovTech Catalyst, which helped us learn where emerging technologies can add value. We learnt this in collaboration with smaller technology companies. In our next phase, we will see prototypes develop into testable products.
How GOV.UK Notify reliably sends text messages to users
The Notify team has adjusted its method of sending out text messages to maintain Notify's reliability. In this post we explain how it was done.
Measuring the climate impact of our digital services at GDS
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Emily Labram - Senior Product Manager, Government Digital Service and Will Pearson - Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Posted on:
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Technology
...use data centres from various companies, including Amazon Web Services (AWS). We decided to find out how our data centres source their electricity, and how much CO2 they produce through...
Back to the future: realising the strategy for innovation
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Sue Bateman - Deputy Director for Innovation, Central Digital and Data Office, Posted on:
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Technology, Transformation
...open data, data ethics and data sharing and – while I was there – brought in the Codes of Practice to make the data sharing powers in the Digital Economy...
Apply for the new Emerging Technology Development Programme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp8AzWxvKgs&feature=youtu.be Technology is evolving faster than ever and as a Civil Service, we are keeping pace with this change. Our commitment to make government work better for everyone by harnessing...
Podcast: Open standards, emerging technology and the government of the future
GDS’s open standards lead Terence Eden joins us on our latest podcast. He talks about his mission to make government more open and the risks and rewards of emerging technology.
How to pair program effectively in 6 steps
...date and working on both machines (if you use two computers) 2. Work closely together When you’re pair programming, the usual set-up is for one of you to be the...
We’ve updated the Technology Code of Practice
...looking forward to working with them again in this next phase of developing the Technology Code of Practice. Read the new Technology Code of Practice and follow GDS on Twitter....
The benefits of coding in the open
...This promotes a common culture and way of working when you can see how other teams manage certain issues. Anna Shipman (left) Quite often, teams will make small improvements to...
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