Publishing the Digital Strategy as a website, rather than on one
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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Welcoming the Digital Strategy
When we launched the Civil Service Reform Plan in June, I said that the Civil Service of the future must look radically different and I asked civil servants to work together to deliver change while maintaining our core strengths and …
The Digital Efficiency report
...This won’t happen straightaway. There is lots of hard work, investment and development needed to make these savings a reality. But digital can make a real difference quickly. The report...
Shipping the digital strategy
As you know, today we launched the Government Digital Strategy. I’m part of the team that was tasked with putting these documents online, and from the outset we wanted to...
The Government Digital Strategy, and how it was written
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Digital strategy, GDS team
...one in which people expect high quality, effective digital services. Currently, too many central government services offer a poor user experience, which leads to low rates of successful completion. To...
Tools over Content
I've talked before about various aspects of how we build software at GDS, and especially for GOV.UK, but I'd like to take a step back and about one of our early design rules: "tools over content".
The next (business) link in the chain
...want to talk about GOV.UK’s other predecessor, businesslink*]}*.gov.uk, which came to its contractual end yesterday. In the beginning Businesslink*]}*.gov.uk was launched by the Small Business Service in 2004, to support...
This week at GDS
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...the development of all of our platforms and products meanwhile, content designers and developers fixing bugs and making tweaks to copy and code wherever necessary on GOV.UK. As Gareth noted...
Regular Releases Reduce Risk
GOV.UK came out of beta just over two weeks ago. In that time we've released over 100 updates. I want to talk a little about how we do that, but mainly to focus on why this approach makes for more …
First Identity Assurance Framework Announced
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK One Login
...Universal Credit. This is the first instance of the cross-government approach to identity assurance being adopted by a major programme so it's an important milestone for us in GDS as...
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