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.
e-petitions: the first 100 days
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Pete Herlihy - former Lead Product Manager for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Last Saturday marked 100 days since the new e-petitions service was launched by GDS and the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons. The service continues to be incredibly popular -on average 18 people have signed an e-petition every minute …
Mobile's role in bridging the digital divide
This is a guest post from the GDS mobile team: The GDS mobile team made a trip to Chiswick last week to OpenMarket, providers of our SMS delivery platform and shortcode number, to find out a bit more about how …
PM launches Tech City mobile app
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Technology
This is a guest post from Alice Newton from the Innovation Team at GDS, Cabinet Office This morning David Cameron went to East London to mark a year of government support for Tech City, a cluster of tech, digital and …
SMEs – we need to talk
The following is a post from Chris Chant, Executive Director in the Cabinet Office working as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative. I said in my last blog post that the government is changing the way we buy and use …
Parliament Week hack day
Last weekend, I attended the closing session of a Parliamentary hack day run with Rewired State as part of Parliament Week 2011, a week of activities to engage with the public and encourage them to get involved in the UK's …
Establishing trust in digital services
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK One Login
Monday was a big day for the Identity Assurance Programme. The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, explained to a packed Technology Strategy Board event why a federated identity assurance model is essential for the 'digital by default' initiative …
The Unacceptable
The following is a post from Chris Chant, Executive Director in the Cabinet Office working as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative. So, the response to the talk I gave at the Institute for Government was quite interesting. It prompted …
The vision for government corporate websites in the Single Domain (with product wireframes)
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
This is the third in a series of posts sharing progress on how we are tackling objective two of the single domain 'beta' project: specifically the creation and test of a unified publishing platform capable of replacing many of the websites which …
Listen to Chris Chant talking about G-Cloud
Last Thursday, Chris Chant gave a talk at a cloud-computing event kindly hosted by the Institute for Government in London. Chris is an Executive Director in the Cabinet Office working as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative, and spoke about …
The second lever
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
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