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How GOV.UK Pay grew to processing £8 billion in transactions

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How GOV.UK Pay grew to processing £8 billion in transactions

Since launching in 2016 GOV.UK Pay has now processed £8 billion in card payments online and over the phone. Here we look at how we’ve used data to grow the product to this milestone.

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Building APIs, building on APIs

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 22 September 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK, Technology

Public APIs are a vital feature of the modern web. Whether you're looking at the ecosystem of Twitter and Facebook apps, tools for managing auctions on ebay, or code for embedding Youtube videos in a blog post, clear ways of …

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Introducing the Needotron: working out the shape of the product

Posted by: Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 19 September 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

...It is essential that the shape of the product will continually iterate throughout its life, as will its underlying code, design, user interface and content. Starting the long journey from...

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The First AgileTea Meeting

Posted by: Abby Peel, Posted on: 13 September 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement

...regular basis over tea and cake. Each AgileTea meeting will have guest speakers, anyone can nominate themselves and it is open to all who wants to share ideas, chat with...

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Accessibility and the Single Government Domain

Posted by: Léonie Watson, Posted on: 5 September 2011 - Categories: Accessibility, GOV.UK

Hello! I'm Léonie Watson. I'm working with Government Digital Service (GDS) on the accessibility of the beta site. This is the first of a series of accessibility focused posts I'll be putting together over the next few months.

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Teacamp September 2011: Open Knowledge Foundation and Scraperwiki

Posted by: Jane O'Loughlin, Posted on: 5 September 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement, Technology

...Beeman and @GlynWintle talking about @Linkedgov • @StevenRWilkes from the Home Office, talking about the digital engagement strand of the government ICT strategy Next teacamps are: 6 October, 3 November,...

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Government corporate websites in eye-popping 3D

Posted by: Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 24 August 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

This is the first of a series of posts about how I'm taking forward objective two of the single domain project: the "private beta test of a shared 'corporate' publishing platform aimed at replacing most of the activity currently hosted …

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Will it be orange?

Posted by: Paul Annett, Posted on: 18 August 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

To outsiders it may sound like a superficial question, but one thing I keep getting asked around Government is "will the single-domain be orange?" – at least in reference to the sections for citizens which will launch in public Beta …

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e-petitions – the Second Week

Posted by: Mark O'Neill - former Head of Innovation and Delivery, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 16 August 2011 - Categories: Transformation

...technical architect capacity to the team to review configuration at key stages and as part of live operation. We will back this up with standard components and tools for common...

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Gov.uk – from Alpha to Beta

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 11 August 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

...transforming the experience of gov.uk transactions will require a federated identity layer across Government services. Not a trivial challenge. Indeed, radically improving the quality of all gov.uk transactional services to...

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A question of trust

Posted by: David Rennie, Posted on: 10 August 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK One Login

I have a spreadsheet on my computer at home with about 100 user names and passwords on it. I never have it to hand when I need it. Security experts tell me that I shouldn't note them down, especially with …

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