Posts about the digital transformation work GDS and the wider government is undertaking.
Pete Herlihy, product owner for e-petitions talks about recent developments, sharing the code base and opening up the data. This week we delivered on earlier commitments to share e-petitions data and to release the code base. Whilst not as visible as …
This week saw one of the key set pieces in the Government’s annual calendar - the Budget. All of Government is affected and we're no different here in Government Digital Service. In this budget the government set out its ambition …
I spent Saturday at Ravensbourne College in North Greenwich as one of the judges at Interactivism - a hack event organised by Google, FutureGov, Livity and the RSA looking at innovative ways of using the web to help young people …
Back in April last year the Alpha.gov.uk team talked about Google being the homepage*: "Since for the vast majority of people their web journeys (finding out the date of the next bank-holiday, or reporting a lost passport) start with a …
The following is a post from Chris Chant, Executive Director in the Cabinet Office working as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative. I said in my last blog post that the government is changing the way we buy and use …
The following is a post from Chris Chant, Executive Director in the Cabinet Office working as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative. So, the response to the talk I gave at the Institute for Government was quite interesting. It prompted …
We launched the ability to sign petitions on the e-petitions site at noon on Thursday 4th August. And it is fair to say that it has been far more popular than we ever expected. The site has had over 2 …
The e-petitions site went live today at noon so that people could start signing petitions raised in the first week and raise new petitions. Interest in the site exceeded our expectations - some key figures from the first day: More …
This is the first delivery product from the Government Digital Service (GDS) using Skunkworks techniques to provide an agile delivery and SME engagement capability for the public sector: e-petitions is a product of that approach in practice: It was developed …
Government ICT has gained the reputation for being about massive projects, with very long time scales, very high costs and being primarily delivered by a small number of very big suppliers.
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