Refreshing the Open Standards Principles

...Strategy and the UK Digital Strategy. The updated version of the principles uses clearer language and clarifies several important points. The Cabinet Office mandates the use of the Open Standards...
...Strategy and the UK Digital Strategy. The updated version of the principles uses clearer language and clarifies several important points. The Cabinet Office mandates the use of the Open Standards...
...more people to go online, so they can access the guidance and services they need – as well as reducing the cost of delivering public services. The Government Digital Service...
...departments to share platforms, components, code and best practice. The collaboration across departments that brought the 2017 strategy into being is the start of what we hope will be a...
...we have today that let us collaborate with colleagues or connect with customers in real-time didn’t exist. Back then, you still bought your music on CDs. Even the most visionary...
Phil Rumens is the Digital Services Manager at West Berkshire Council and the vice-chair of LocalGov Digital. In this post, he talks about creating a Local Government Digital Standard.
...eighth design principle: build digital services, not websites. With the tax platform doing a lot of the hard interconnecting work behind the scenes, each of these services is built on...
Last week, we held an event: Sprint 15. It marked the culmination of the two-year transformation project that began with Sprint 13, when we made our plan clear: there were 400 days to transform government.
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.
...browser, every time you plan a journey, switch on your satnav, or buy a train ticket. Government should do only the things that only government can do. In this case,...
...civil servants the digital capabilities to use and improve government services 4. Agree a common definition of digital skills and capabilities 5. Boost Go ON UK's Partnership Programme across the...