On Tuesday, 12th June, Mike Bracken announced that the Cabinet Office will be joining the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). The Identity Assurance Programme team explain how this will enhance a process of collaboration and inform ongoing, small-scale, alpha projects.
"Digital is not another channel, it is the delivery choice for this generation" - Francis Maude, Minister for Cabinet Office said at the Intellect World-Class Public Services Conference today, 11...
...writing to encourage suppliers to apply for the next round of the GCloud framework because I need to buy cloud services and GCloud is how we will buy those cloud...
As Sarah Richards has already said, the citizen beta of GOV.UK is as much about radical simplicity in words as it is about design and back-end innovation. In a few murky corridors, clarity is still considered heresy. Alan Maddrell, Content …
...for different users and services. It could be helping people learn to use the internet so they can use digital services by themselves. It could be having a place where...
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...
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The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.