Meeting the technology needs of government
...the Cabinet Office, and chaired by Liam Maxwell, Government CTO. Setting the scene Francis Maude talked about how important it is to get technology in the civil service right, as...
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Walking the talk in New York
Today is the election for the next Mayor of New York City. Mike Bloomberg cannot stand for a third term, and there are more than a dozen challengers competing to take his place. Whoever wins, I hope they support the …
GDS goes to Cabinet and the OGP summit
This week Mike Bracken has news of GDS' presentation to the Cabinet at No.10 and Nayeema Chowdhury talks about sharing GDS' work at the Open Government Partnership summit. Follow Mike...
'Government as a data model' : what I learned in Estonia
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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 …
GDS goes to Cabinet
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This morning I attended the weekly meeting of Cabinet ministers at Number 10. I was there to share more about what we're up to at GDS - and right across...
GDS this week
...building an alpha. The alpha wasn’t just to create a great new service; it was to demonstrate to DWP that agile delivery can work. The new service went live last...
Expats: help us test a new service
...those dates we would love to have you come and try out the new service. Please contact Sarah Tynan to book a place on the Oxford testing day, and contact...
New guidance for government devices
...needs first - not something that security policy is known for it enables real choice of IT for civil servants - there is guidance for Mac OS X, Ubuntu and...
How many people are missing out on JavaScript enhancement?
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GDS team, GOV.UK, Transformation
A few weeks back, we were chatting about the architecture of the Individual Electoral Registration web service. We started discussing the pros and cons of an approach that would provide a significantly different interaction for any people not running JavaScript. "What …
GOV.UK turned one today
It's been a busy week at GDS, but this afternoon we took a few minutes out to celebrate the first birthday of GOV.UK. I wrote a bit this morning on the Inside GOV.UK blog about what the year has meant …
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