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...users. There’s been kindness and encouragement from outside government too, our early conversations with Tim O’Reilly and Jen Pahlka in the US have blossomed into shared practices and mutual support...
A few weeks ago, we welcomed some friends from America to our office in London, members of the United States Digital Service (USDS) and 18F.
A little rant, if you’ll forgive the indulgence. It includes a confession, to make up for the ranting.
Back in January, the Australian government said it would be setting up a new Digital Transformation Office. That was great news. We were happy to welcome Australia to our international community of governments
Jamie Arnold has been part of GDS since the very beginning, working on the early stages of GOV.UK and many other projects since.
Last week we welcomed visitors from the US Digital Service and 18F over here for the best part of a week to swap stories, experiences, and mistakes.
...and how different systems glue together - flexibility and the ability to understand any programming language - empathy to understand what different stakeholders are dealing with - the ability to...
...describes that as a team moving from project thinking (where the focus is on time and budget), through to product thinking (focus on users and shippable code) to service thinking...
...projects besides. Some teams have already begun posting updates: the GOV.UK Verify team have just published a list of digital services expected to start using GOV.UK Verify in the next...
...can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/election2015. This page will be available once Parliament dissolves on Monday 30 March. While we're on the subject of elections, don't forget to register to vote....
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