Introducing Jordan Hatch
Hi, my name is Jordan Hatch, I'm seventeen, and last week I joined the development team working on the gov.uk beta. It's great to be working with so many talented developers on such an innovative project.
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Posts about who we are and how we work.
Community Teacamps for November and December
There are three TeaCamp-style events happening through November and December. Applycamp on the 22nd November is followed by the second AgileTea event on Thursday 24 November. Both deal with Government procurement although Applycamp is specifically for the G-cloud framework. Finally …
e-petitions: the first 100 days
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Last Saturday marked 100 days since the new e-petitions service was launched by GDS and the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons. The service continues to be incredibly popular -on average 18 people have signed an e-petition every minute …
The second lever
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We are hiring. And we want more world-class digital talent in Government.
Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, attends seminar at No. 10 Downing Street
“Who knows where Amazon will be in 10 years? How could I have predicted 5 years ago that I would be standing here today, in No. 10 Downing Street, talking to the UK Government about the Cloud?” - Dr. Werner …
Facebook and Government - A workshop
In a previous post we discussed a few of of the ways government is using social media to interact better with citizens. Asking for ideas for new health apps, live blogging events (DECC’s Pylon design competition) and MoD’s personal security for social media campaign going viral …
What a great turnout for the first Agile Tea Camp
Over 30 people turned for the very first meeting of the Agile Tea camp, held Thursday 22 September at Café Zest, on the 2nd Floor of the House of Fraser store in Victoria Street, Westminster. There was lots of networking before …
Welcome to the Government Digital Service blog
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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We exist to make public services digital by default, and we are relentlessly focused on user needs. At the moment, we are bringing together various strands of Government digital activity into one function in order to drive up quality and …
Mike Bracken appointed as HMG Executive Director for Digital
In the past few months this blog has made a few introductions and this will be the last for a while! We are very pleased to announce that Mike Bracken has been appointed as the Government’s new Executive Director for …
Towards a Single Government Domain
Chris Chant has commissioned a project to create a prototype single government domain using an agile, multidisciplinary approach.
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