You can find more information about technology on the dedicated Technology in government blog.
We're already talked about why we chose Amazon Web Services for hosting the beta of GOV.UK, and how we approached some of the decisions that came with it. Cloud hosting gives us the flexibility to rapidly iterate our infrastructure as …
All of the editorial content on GOV.UK is available in full via an API. It's the same API we use to communicate between the editorial tools and the apps that produce the pages you see. As I said several months …
...the remote control for your life. We’re now seeing around 9% of visits to Directgov coming via a mobile device and we’ll see over 2 million visits to the mobile...
...per the Government’s own guidelines. Not all browsers will render web pages in the same way, often there is a marked difference between browsers in the way that they handle...
...digital world is dwindling, it’s important to remember that only 74% of adults have access to broadband at home, compared to 91% of adults who have a mobile phone. In...
This is a guest post from Alice Newton from the Innovation Team at GDS, Cabinet Office This morning David Cameron went to East London to mark a year of government support for Tech City, a cluster of tech, digital and …
...many know it must. First off government has realised that it’s not that different. From now on if government wants some IT it needs to do what everyone else does...
Last weekend, I attended the closing session of a Parliamentary hack day run with Rewired State as part of Parliament Week 2011, a week of activities to engage with the public and encourage them to get involved in the UK's …
...it's time to make a change. The change we are already making is a big one. It will affect the way government buys IT, who we buy it from, how...
...as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative, and spoke about G-Cloud and what people can expect from it. For those who were unable to make the event, we recorded it...
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