How we’re making it easier to access government forms online
How we’re making it easier to access government forms online
What we learned from user research with the public on completing PDF and online forms.
It's not about cookies, it's about privacy
The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 which came into effect last year has presented UK website owners with a few challenges in moving to compliance. Those of us who work on public sector websites are no …
INSIDE GOVERNMENT - how busy the busy bees have been
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK
Since we released INSIDE GOVERNMENT, 2 weeks ago, we’re already iterating and have made a number of changes. We’ve had tons of useful feedback and we’re making incremental improvements in response, as well as continuing to develop the software and …
Does local government need a local government digital service?
The easy answer to the title question would be No...but I don't like easy answers and I believe that No is fundamentally the wrong answer. My name is Carl Haggerty, I’m the Digital Communications Manager at Devon County Council. I've …
Engaging With The Hard To Reach
GDS aims to create digital services that are world class and become the channel of choice for service users. But the demographic of those who remain offline reveals that these very citizens are some of the heaviest users and most …
Really Useful Day
When the beta of GOV.UK was released, it naturally provoked a huge number of questions from people working in local as well as central government. We’ve written before on this blog about how important local services are to GOV.UK so …
Identity: One small step for all of Government
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK One Login
Today the cross-Government Identity Assurance programme sanctioned DWP to publish a tender to procure Identity services for all of Government. The notice appears here in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), and marks the start of the formal process …
INSIDE GOVERNMENT - a few highlights
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
Today we have released part 2 of the GOV.UK beta - INSIDE GOVERNMENT. You can see our other post today for more on what this is all about and why it matters. But here, we’re going to take a quick …
Introducing the next phase of the GOV.UK beta
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
Today we unveil the next bit of the GOV.UK beta - INSIDE GOVERNMENT. This is the place where, in future, people who are personally or professionally interested in the business of government will be able to research how government works …
Blurring boundaries
Hello, I'm Paul, also known as @psd and I've just joined GDS as a Technical Architect. First impressions are important but soon forgotten, so here are some of mine from the first day of working with the team.
Trying out a new application process for developers at GDS
We’ve had a lot of feedback on our recent call for developers to join us at GDS. The biggest message by far was that the application process wasn’t very user-friendly. We agree, it needs to be improved. So we’re going …
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