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Identity: Scheming for Simplicity

Steve Wreyford, 22 March 2012 - GOV.UK One Login

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 …

It's not about cookies, it's about privacy

Dafydd Vaughan, 19 March 2012 - GOV.UK, Technology

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

Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, 13 March 2012 - 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?

Carl Haggerty, 7 March 2012 - GDS team

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,...

Engaging With The Hard To Reach

Bob Kamal, 6 March 2012 - Accessibility

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

David Mann, 2 March 2012 - GOV.UK

...well as talking about the genesis of GOV.UK and GDS, I gave a live demonstration of local services on the site. As one of my colleagues pointed out, this was...

Identity: One small step for all of Government

Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, 1 March 2012 - GOV.UK One Login

...European Union (OJEU), and marks the start of the formal process to create a market of identity services for access to digital public services. Commercially, it means that the potential...

INSIDE GOVERNMENT - a few highlights

Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, 28 February 2012 - 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

Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, 28 February 2012 - 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

Paul Downey, 23 February 2012 - Content design, Technology

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.