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
Image courtesy of Simon Cunningham under a Creative Commons license. Sam Hall is Head of Publishing Operations at the Office for National Statistics. Statistics may be defined as "a body...
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
...workshops that allowed these young people to experience what it is like to work at GDS. The workshop was based on GDS's #StartAtGOVUK campaign. We asked the teens to design...
GOV.UK - it's all in the name
...official and can be trusted. The Central Office of Information (COI) had responsibility for managing the guidance until late 2011 when the Government Digital Service took over. The original guidance...
Doing the hard work to make things simple
Posted by:
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...
The unsung heroes of voter registration
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
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. I can't overstate the importance of...
Making things open, making things better
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
GOV.UK
...to read government documents people working in government to be able to share their work more easily (we think sharing is a good thing: one of our design principles is...
Prison visit booking: using digital analytics to inform alpha development
...visit booking team used their digital analytics to improve the service design was by uploading the number of slots selected to their digital analytics tool using whats called a custom...
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