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.
As part of the work we’re doing to prepare for government as a platform, we’ve been investigating ways to help government agencies use shared platforms and data registers to build better services.
Most people have to pay government money at some point or another. For example, when you pay tax, or renew your passport, or get a new driver’s licence, or buy an environmental permit.
Licence, permit, registration, certification, accreditation - government has lots of different ways for people to get permission to do something.
A week or so ago, Felicity Singleton wrote about preparing for Government as a Platform. Felicity talked about four workstreams we’ve begun to look at as part of our preparation work.
Back in March, just before the pre-election period began and, like the rest of the Civil Service, we had to keep quiet for a while, Mike Bracken wrote this post.
With this parliament drawing to a close, it’s time to take what we’ve learned over the last few years and work out how to pick up the pace of digital transformation in the years to come.
Read GDS’s recent blog post for an update on our one login for government programme, including live beta, onboarding and feature development.
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.