Registered Traveller service goes live
...ePassport gates at participating UK international ports if they have a biometric passport Making life easier for business travellers helps to keep the UK competitive. And by allowing travellers that...
Transformation
Posts about the digital transformation work GDS and the wider government is undertaking.
China tourist visas: user research
...don't forget to sign up to email alerts. Transcript: Apply for a UK tourist visa from China - user research case study Home Office user researcher Katy Arnold talks about...
That was 400 days of delivery
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GDS team, People and skills, Sprint, Transformation
Last week, we held an event: Sprint 15. It marked the culmination of the two-year transformation project that began with Sprint 13, when we made our plan clear: there were 400 days to transform government.
Exemplars making examples of themselves
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
...The people I met down in Newport can see what's wrong, and they're keen to fix it. So work has begun on a new design applications alpha. They’re using agile...
Sprint 15 round-up
...talk about what comes next. We welcomed guests from France, Estonia and the United States, as well as Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude, Martha Lane Fox, and the...
Simpler, clearer, Australia
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
...and businesses." The emphasis there is on transformation, this is about changing the government to better serve citizens. One of the first items on the DTO's todo list will be...
GDS, USDS and sharing expertise
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Liam Maxwell and Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Transformation
One of our design principles at GDS is “Make things open: it makes them better.” Since GDS was set up in 2012, working in the open has been a big part of who we are. It’s great for us to …
All crayons left behind - building digital services, not websites for rural payments
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
...on users. From edge cases to hedge cases One of the best things about working in an agile way is that we can iterate on what we’ve built to better...
Revealing the hidden side of transformation
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
...a bit like a university campus. It was built to process enormous quantities of paperwork - because of course, that's how things used to be done. But things are changing...
A big week for Companies House
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Transformation
...designed summary of public information about that company: its status, registered address, names of directors and secretaries, and a list of filing dates. It’s an impressive start on an important...
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