GDS Local shares the latest developments on how the initiative is supporting digital transformation in councils.
...you can't design well unless you've put the effort into getting the brief right. If a bad digital service looks great, it's still a bad digital service. It's essential we...
...if we share it. As ever we'd love to hear your feedback, specifically what you think is useful, and what you'd like to see included in further versions. You can...
Mention the word "API" to the wrong audience and blank looks shortly follow. For the uninitiated, an API, or "Application Programming Interface", is a way for one computer to use information or services held on another computer, often across the …
...code from the off. Working with my colleagues, we have introduced this technique to the design process of GOV.UK in reaction to the rapid development cycles and number of iterations...
...deliverables like gov.uk, that will be real transformative change. And, as Mike says, beautiful too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPYXCHfk6V0 About the author: Rachel Neaman is the Digital Leader for the Department of Health...
...mandate to deliver on Martha Lane Fox’s vision for digital public services. Now that mandate is reinforced by Government, with the commitment to our agenda set out in the budget...
As Product Analytics Lead at the Government Digital Service, one of my interests is how effectively people are finding government information and where they are finding it. I recently read the post on Government in the Lab; Social Media Drives …
The Cabinet Office Identity Assurance Programme (based in the Government Digital Service) aims to help users transact digitally with public services through convenient & secure login mechanisms. Behind this simple objective lies a complex problem: how to ensure the user …
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 …
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 …
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