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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 …
We are hiring. And we want more world-class digital talent in Government.
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In January we announced the appointment of Chris Chant as Interim Executive Director for Digital Government. This appointment followed the publication of Martha Lane Fox's report to Government, “Directgov 2010 and Beyond", which made various recommendations to drive up the …
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