Welcoming our new minister
We were delighted to welcome our new minister, Ben Gummer, to the GDS office in Holborn yesterday, when he made a few important announcements: GDS is taking over the Digital...
GDS team
Posts about who we are and how we work.
Unconference: setting our own agenda for the latest all-staff meeting
We hold all-staff meetings to share what we’ve achieved and talk about what we’ll be doing next. People wanted to try an ‘unconference’ so everyone could get more involved.
Using mob programming to solve a problem
...code super quickly, and I think that’s what we’d been doing here. One of us would write some code to test a part of the user journey, and then when...
Introducing the GDS International team
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The GDS International Team is now 4 months old and we thought it was about time to introduce ourselves. International collaboration plays a large part in what GDS does, from...
Kevin says hello
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...week, it was announced that the UK is now ranked at the top of the United Nations' latest e-government index. That’s a great testament to the work being done by...
From John Manzoni: Changes at GDS
...period of outstanding delivery and achievement. Stephen built a new leadership team at GDS and continued to provide supportive, environment for the team to excel at what it does. Under...
Taking service design to Parliament
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We spoke recently at a roundtable in Parliament, organised by the All Parliamentary Group for Design and Innovation (APDIG). At the session, ‘Designing the next generation of government services’, we talked about why GDS is making service design a priority.
Guest post: Two days at GDS – an Australian perspective
Consumer Affairs Victoria is a business unit of the Department of Justice and Regulation, in the Victorian state government. Its purpose is to help Victorian businesses and consumers be responsible and informed.
What GDS is for
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Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Public Sector Show. It re-visits some of the things I spoke about recently, but ties them together with some new thoughts about the future of GDS and the role we play.
Hearts on our sleeves and rainbows on our windows
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...of transforming government together would be impossible without diversity. Recent Civil Service People Surveys have shown that LGBT+ people make up around 5% of the Civil Service; but of those...
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