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 …
Last week some members of the UK Identity Assurance team were invited to the White House to share, learn and collaborate with some of the key individuals and organisations in the US wrestling with the challenges of identity in cyberspace. …
As more and more government services are being provided online, it is becoming increasingly important to have a simple and user-friendly way for users to assert their identity in order to access these services. This access should be consistent across …
An understanding of how cookies work is the first step in helping people to make informed decisions about the impact of these technologies on their online privacy.
...servants accessing the internet and social media channels. The social media guidance is made up of six principles: Government should Communicate with citizens in the places they already are Use...
GDS was pleased to welcome a group visit from the Norwegian Government last week. The following is a guest post from Heather Broomfield, Open Data manager at Difi - the...
...mind.' Member of public Department pages on Inside government beta (top) vs current departmental sites The facilitator then pulled up Inside government. The participants began with a cursory browse and...
Today we’re publishing a series of Good Practice Guides (GPGs) for potential providers of identity assurance for government services. They can now be found on the Cabinet Office site.
This week I spent a few days visiting Estonia with Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, Liam Maxwell, the new Deputy CIO and colleagues with Cyber Security responsibilities. We...
On 28th February, GOV.UK released a second beta - INSIDE GOVERNMENT. So, six weeks later, what have we learned? From the benefits of ‘storytime’ to the real value of precocious developers, Pete Herlihy outlines some of the things the team …
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