People and skills

Digital principles for a better GDS

Alex Holmes, 9 March 2016 - GDS team, People and skills

We’re aiming to bring together how we apply a digital way of thinking and our own design principles to make GDS a better place to work.

GDS and gender diversity at conferences and events

Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, 8 March 2016 - GDS team, People and skills

Today is International Women's Day, and I'm committing, in public, to the first of several actions that GDS is going to take to help improve gender diversity. In future, no-one from GDS will take part in a panel discussion of two or more people unless there is at least one woman on the panel.

Notes from a Swedish explorer

Lars Boström, 9 February 2016 - GDS team, People and skills, User research

Lars Boström is a Team Leader and Web Coordinator at the Swedish Consumer Agency. Here, Lars talks about his experience of job shadowing user researchers at GDS.

Professions and boldness

Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, 1 February 2016 - GDS team, People and skills

As the brilliant Janet Hughes says, the civil service should be a place where people can be bold.

I became a civil servant by accident

Mark Branigan, 21 October 2015 - GDS team, People and skills, Technology

Mark Branigan, a User Researcher for the Digital Marketplace, shares his experience of the Digital and Technology Fast Stream in the Civil Service.

Civil servants are users too

Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service and Mayank Prakash, 28 September 2015 - Digital Service Platforms, People and skills

Executive Director of GDS Stephen Foreshew-Cain and Director General of Digital Technology at DWP Mayank Prakash talk about the collaborative work that's being done to develop a cross-government platform for civil servants.

Thanks Mike

Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, 25 September 2015 - GDS team, People and skills

It’s Mike Bracken’s last day today, and on behalf of everyone at GDS I want to say this: thank you, Mike.

Learning and doing together

Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, 18 September 2015 - People and skills, Transformation

I’ve written about the important work we’ve been doing in building a Digital and Technology profession across government. Digital transformation of government is bigger than any one person.

Cambridge coding club for girls

Tatiana Soukiassian, 16 September 2015 - GDS team, People and skills

Last month I was invited to give a talk as at the Cambridge University Computer Science lab.

It’s not about us, it’s about collaboration

Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, 10 September 2015 - GDS team, GOV.UK, People and skills, Transformation

A few years ago, I stood up at the first GDS all-staff meeting and told everyone there to “look sideways”, by which I meant: don’t get stuck in silos of your own making.

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