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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GDS has formed a Sustainability Network. One of our first tasks was to find out how much CO2 our digital services produce.
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
The Innovation team at GDS is working hard to bring the objectives we outlined in the Government Technology Innovation Strategy to life, and looking for new opportunities across government. Sue Bateman shares the team's next steps.
Apply for the new Emerging Technology Development Programme
Be part of the GDS Academy's new programme and join a team of specialists helping to solve government’s most difficult problems.
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
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Pea Tyczynska - Developer at GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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People and skills, Technology
GDS has used pair programming since its inception. It plays an important role in building our services. In this post, Pea Tyczynska explains how to pair programme effectively in 6 steps.
We’ve updated the Technology Code of Practice
We've just updated the Technology Code of Practice, which sets the standard for how government should design, build and buy technology. The updates we’ve just made allow continuous iteration, and we expect that the Code of Practice will constantly evolve, and keep up when technology changes.
The benefits of coding in the open
For any service to be put in front of the public, it has to meet the Digital Service Standard, a set of 18 criteria. One of them is that all new source code is made open and published under an open source licence. In this post, Anna Shipman explains why coding in the open makes things better.
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