Digital Service Platforms
Digital Service Platforms is a common core infrastructure of shared digital systems, technology and processes on which it’s easy to build brilliant, user-centric government services. Examples include GOV.UK Pay and GOV.UK Notify.
...of the procurement process Public registers will help Having authoritative, trusted lists or ‘registers’ of public sector buying organisations, and suppliers to the public sector, will be a major step...
Expectations are changing; government’s data infrastructure needs to change too.
Louise Auger from the Home Office and Anna Wojnarowska from GDS are user researchers who are working together to look at technology transition projects across government.
Till Wirth talks about moving from alpha to beta of GOV.UK Pay.
We’ve talked about registers as authoritative lists you can trust, but what do we mean when we say “register”?
...afford. For example: look at GOV.UK Verify, which is stimulating the identity services market. It is setting standards, aggregating demand across government and government services, building a whole new market...
Pete Herlihy talks about the next stage of the digital notifications platform for government.
...civil servants use to get all these tasks done. They started with user needs, because civil servants are users too. They talked to, listened to, and observed some civil servants...
Right now, hosting services is one of the most time-consuming barriers for new digital services, and usually involves duplicating work done elsewhere. On the Government Platform as a Service team we’re working on solving that.
There’s huge potential for digital transformation in local government as well as national government.