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This is a vision you should see
Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business, gave a speech in Brussels the other day and took digital by default one step further: right across Europe.
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New paths opened as Transport Direct closes down
Hands up if you remember Transport Direct - www.transportdirect.info. It was a journey planner for British transport - all of it, everywhere. Roads and traffic, rail journeys, cycle routes, foot and vehicle ferries, you name it.
Digital marches on: rising take-up, falling costs
The Transactions Explorer has enabled government to track progress on its key performance indicators for the first time.
Strategy and delivery, one year on
We’ve published a couple of big updates, both to the Digital Strategy and to the transformation programme. Between them, they’ll give you a picture of just how much we’ve achieved in the last twelve months.
Better support across government
Today we’ve published the latest quarterly progress report about the work we’ve been doing with departments on the Government Digital Strategy. It highlights how we have turned our attention to improving services we provide to support departments moving to digital …
'Government as a data model' : what I learned in Estonia
I’ve just got back from a few days in the Republic of Estonia, looking at how they deliver their digital services and sharing stories of some of the work we are up to here in the UK. We have an …
What about people who aren't online?
‘What about people who aren’t online?’ is a question we’re often asked on the assisted digital team. So we decided to run a workshop at GDS’ Sprint Alpha event on 17th July to answer it. Rebecca Kemp and Richard Smith …
The pivot: from publishing to transactions
Today we’re publishing our second quarterly progress report on the commitments made in the Government Digital Strategy.
Digital Services Framework
Now that the application process for our new Digital Services Framework has opened, we thought it would be useful to say a bit more about what it is. What's a framework, you ask? It’s a list of suppliers who’ve been …
2012/13 Savings: Better for Less
Last week the Efficiency and Reform Group (the part of the Cabinet Office that includes GDS) announced savings figures for the last financial year. In 2012/13 we helped departments save £10 billion, or about £600 for each household in the …