This week at GDS
Mike Beaven talks about how GDS has been helping Technology in Business fast streamers learn about coding and design, the beta release of the employment tribunal fee service and the...
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The Smart Answer Bug
...check whether any code issues were present in that particular release. The reason behind the second point is a little more subtle. In general, the engagement should be independent of...
This week at GDS
...more Foreign and Commonwealth Office services now moved onto the platform. This week Mike went up to Scotland to meet the Student Loans Company, one of the 25 exemplar transformation...
Working with govt.nz
The New Zealand Government Online team has released a sneak preview of their new beta, designed to replace newzealand.govt.nz. Their design mockups look vaguely familiar: Several GOV.UK makers have given the team advice, covering everything from department directory data to …
The GOV.UK homepage - our latest version
Today we release the latest version of the GOV.UK homepage. Since the last major revision of the page (which Ben wrote about last year), dozens of ministerial departments and other government organisations have joined GOV.UK. Our new homepage makes it …
Three cities, one alpha, one day
...then take that feedback; we’ll make some changes. Angela Jackson, head of product management at Land Registry: [to a service user] If you imagine Land Registry has launched this service...
This week at GDS
...with the whole team and we had a couple of really good visitors. We had the Office of the Public Guardian come over who on the 1st of July launched...
The pivot: from publishing to transactions
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Digital strategy, GDS team, Sprint, Transformation
Today we’re publishing our second quarterly progress report on the commitments made in the Government Digital Strategy. Transforming government services http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5zEQLluoc In 2011 the first challenge we faced was the...
G-Cloud - ready for the next phase
...meet their commitments under the public Cloud First policy. The next iteration of the supplier framework - G-Cloud 4 - will be issued as planned, with the OJEU notice published...
Talent scouting
Today we published another important update to the Government Service Design Manual to help departments recruit and retain staff with new digital skills. This is one of the services the new GDS Recruitment Hub is offering departments. Increasingly we need to …
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