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.
Digital strategy
Strategy and delivery, one year on
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GDS team, Transformation
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
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Pete Herlihy - former Lead Product Manager for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GDS team, GOV.UK
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
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Digital strategy, GDS team, Sprint, Transformation
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 …
Reforming governance in government technology
We announced in March that we would reform the governance of our technology provision in central government. We need a simpler, clearer model of governance based on user needs. Those users are our colleagues as well as citizens and this …
Benefits of diversity
Sam Sharpe is an Operations Engineer at GDS, working within our Hosting and Infrastructure Team. This post was contributed to by others - see the change history for more details. After a talk by Jordan and Tom at the OpenTech 2013 Conference recently, I was asked if the number …
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