Podcast: GOV.UK Platform as a Service
This month we hear from colleagues in the GOV.UK Platform as a Service team, and from some teams across government who are using the service.
Government as a Platform
Government as a Platform is a common core infrastructure of shared digital systems, technology and processes on which it’s easy to build brilliant, user-centric government services. Examples include GOV.UK Pay and GOV.UK Notify.
Government as a Platform (GaaP) milestones
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Roxane Heaton - Director, Digital Data and Technology Functional Strategy, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Pay, Government as a Platform
Government as a Platform (GaaP) products make it quicker and cheaper to create digital services. This month we're celebrating 4 milestones.
How Government as a Platform is meeting challenges posed by coronavirus
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Miriam Raines and Mark Buckley, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Pay, Government as a Platform
Many public sector organisations are feeling pressure on their services because of coronavirus. Read about the products that Government as a Platform offers that help continue essential delivery of services, and support the development of new services required by the situation.
GovWifi: connecting your organisation is now easier than ever
More than 100 local and central government organisations have signed up - with the service available in hundreds of locations around the UK. If your organisation is not on GovWifi yet, now's the time to join.
What’s next for GOV.UK Verify?
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GOV.UK Verify team, Posted on:
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Government as a Platform, Identity Assurance, Transformation
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.
Taking GOV.UK Verify to the next stage
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Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, GDS, Posted on:
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GDS team, Government as a Platform, Identity Assurance, Transformation
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.
GovWifi: ready to make more connections
GovWifi is a single wifi login which can be installed by government departments over their existing infrastructure. Users register once, they don’t need to remember a password or sign in to different networks when they move between buildings. Simply put: it makes it easier for people to do their work.
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.
Related content and links
How accessible is your website?
Public sector organisations have a legal duty to make websites accessible. Find out how your organisation is impacted at GOV.UK/accessibility-regulations
GOV.UK service and product owners need to upload an accessibility page and publishers need to upload an accessible documents policy.