Exploring the user needs of technology governance
We’ve been interviewing colleagues across the civil service to establish a clear set of user needs as part of our review of the governance of technology provision in government. We’ve...
Technology
You can find more information about technology on the dedicated Technology in government blog.
Rebalancing technology across government
Today we are releasing a further iteration of the Government Service Design Manual. We’ve updated this with more guidance for service managers and, for the first time, information for Chief Technology Officers on how government is rebalancing its approach to …
Interesting browser stats
One of the GDS design principles is 'design with data'. Front end developers need to know what the current browser landscape looks like and in which browsers they should be regularly testing new features. To help us do that, I created …
250 companies in 2 days
I've just completed a lightning tour of four UK cities. I've been speaking, and more importantly listening, to some of the leading small and medium-sized (SME) business technology companies in the UK.
Browser usage on GOV.UK
Earlier this year James Weiner and Ben Welby wrote about the browsers and devices that we are supporting on GOV.UK. We made these decisions using browser/device data from various sources including Directgov, BusinessLink, central government departments and several other big sites. …
Why IaaS?
Rather than running our own room full of servers, or worrying too much about physical computers, we have chosen to run GOV.UK on an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. What does that mean and why did we make that …
Introducing a new supplier (Skyscape)
Posted by:
Mark O'Neill - former Head of Innovation and Delivery, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
GOV.UK, Technology
As you will know, we at GDS are building GOV.UK, currently in beta at www.gov.uk. As part of that process we have been thinking about the best way to host...
Shipping new formats: the GOV.UK ‘international trade’ release
Posted by:
Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
GOV.UK, Technology
...of the complexity for people needing to look up EU commodity codes and other customs information when importing or exporting goods. We’ll be explaining more about this tool in a...
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 …
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...
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