When is it ok not to open all source code?
To meet the Digital By Default Service Standard, digital services have to ‘make all new source code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licences.
GOV.UK
Posts about the development and iteration of the GOV.UK website. You can find more information for GOV.UK publishers on the Inside GOV.UK blog.
A new way to view your driving licence info online
View your driving licence information is a new digital service from DVLA. It's a simpler, clearer and faster way to view your driving information online.
Please release me: building a new statistical release calendar
Sam Hall is Head of Publishing Operations at the Office for National Statistics.
Say the dot
Back in May, we wrote a short post explaining why we write the name of our website as GOV.UK, in capitals, and the URL as www.gov.uk, so that people know it’s a URL
Inspiring teenagers: getting schools to beat bogus websites
Recently, GDS took part in the Whitehall Schools Conference. The conference is for bright 12-13 year olds from underrepresented backgrounds, and shows them the career opportunities available to them in the Civil Service.
GOV.UK - it's all in the name
We’ve updated the guidance on naming and registering government domain names to make it faster, simpler and clearer to read through and decide whether you can apply for a gov.uk domain.
Doing the hard work to make things simple
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Transformation
Our fourth design principle is "Do the hard work to make it simple”. A team working at the Ministry of Justice have been putting that into action recently, trying to simplify a legal process known as “accelerated possession”, just one …
The unsung heroes of voter registration
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Transformation
Back in June, we launched the live phase of the new Register to vote digital service, number one on our list of transformation exemplars.
Making things open, making things better
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
Every time you save a document on your computer, there’s a short string of characters at the end of the filename - the stuff you see suffixed after the dot.
Prison visit booking: using digital analytics to inform alpha development
We often think of digital analytics as simply counting website visitors, visits and pageviews.
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