GOV.UK
What’s next for GOV.UK Verify?
Following our October post about the future of GOV.UK Verify, find out more details about the programme's priorities over the coming 18 months.
Government as a Platform
Taking GOV.UK Verify to the next stage
The standards and guidelines that currently underpin the way GOV.UK Verify works will now be opened up to the private sector to build on. Here's how that will work.
How Government as a Platform is helping to transform the Department for International Trade
Having the GaaP suite of common tools, components and guidance meant that the teams at the Department for International Trade could draw on technical expertise and products that would have been too costly to procure independently.
How GOV.UK Notify is helping the DVSA remind motorists to renew their MOTs
Neil Barlow is the Service Manager and Head of Policy for MOTs at the DVSA. In this post, he describes how GOV.UK Notify is helping remind hundreds of thousands of citizens that their MOTs are due for renewal.
Local government services to start using GOV.UK Pay
So far, GOV.UK Pay has only been available to central government bodies, but we’re now ready to start offering GOV.UK Pay to local government.
Local government services to start using GOV.UK Notify
GOV.UK Notify – the government's digital communications platform – is fast becoming established in central government. We’re now ready to start offering Notify to local government.
Introducing our new product pages and technical documentation
Our new product pages and a new technical documentation format help users recognise that a resource is provided or curated by GDS.
Service Toolkit: everything you need to build a service in one place
We’ve launched the Service Toolkit to give teams across government quick access to the resources they need to build and run services.
7 things we learnt on our US visit
The US government runs an International Visitors Leadership Program, which brings together future leaders from around the world. The most recent visit was for future digital and technology leaders and GDS was invited to take part. We wanted to share what we learnt.
How users feel about webchat
Webchat is a support channel where users can talk to advisers through real-time online text chat. We ran an alpha to learn from departments that have been using webchat and to learn what works for users.