Last July, GDS published a full list of all the transactional services that the Government offers to citizens and business, along with their annual volume of activity. It was the first time the Government had ever done this.
...the biggest services the Government offers its citizens. Taken together, there are over a billion transactions through these 44 services every single year. That's over 88% of the transactions handled...
...the chance to listen to major speakers set out the digital future for Government including keynote speeches from: Francis Maude - Minister for the Cabinet Office Martha Lane Fox -...
...more comprehensively across every element of foreign policy work. Our new guidance encourages staff to use social media. While we don’t expect all staff to use social media in the...
...the scale of our collective ambition. The journey to this point started with Martha’s report, and the simple but powerful observation that most interactions with Government are transactional, and it’s...
...and businesses to update their tax affairs. For example, a new digital service will allow 30 million+ PAYE taxpayers to report changes that affect their tax codes, rather than making...
Today we published the Government Approach to Assisted Digital as part of the Government Digital Strategy. Assisted Digital provision is the help and support we will provide so people who can’t use digital services independently can access digital by default …
...can find information and guidance from almost all government bodies in one place. There will be a consistent design and layout for information published by about 300 different government organisations....
A few weeks ago I wrote a post detailing the technical side of the Government Digital Strategy. One of the things I spoke about was how we were keen to...
I’m Andrew Francis and I’m a policy professional. So is my colleague Sheila Bennett. You might not have heard much from our profession here on the GDS blog recently, but...
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