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e-petitions

Posted by: Chris Watson - Head of Communications, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 29 July 2011 - Categories: Transformation

This is the first delivery product from the Government Digital Service (GDS) using Skunkworks techniques to provide an agile delivery and SME engagement capability for the public sector: e-petitions is...

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Innovation – the first strand: Delivery

Posted by: James Taylor, Posted on: 28 July 2011 - Categories: Transformation

Government ICT has gained the reputation for being about massive projects, with very long time scales, very high costs and being primarily delivered by a small number of very big suppliers.

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An introduction to Assisted Digital

Posted by: The Digital Engagement Team, Posted on: 28 July 2011 - Categories: Accessibility, Digital strategy

We provide an introduction to Assisted Digital which allows customers with different support requirements to access digital services, ensuring no one is left behind.

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How does this look from outside the UK?

Posted by: Jimmy Leach, Posted on: 9 June 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

One of the problems that Alphagov is trying to solve is the confusion generated by the fragmented nature of the government’s digital offering. Who’s in charge of what? Those who...

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Sketching our way to Alpha.gov.uk

Posted by: alphagov, Posted on: 2 June 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

We’ve talked about initial analysis, design rules and technology. Now we're taking those sketches to build something to satisfy them on Alpha.gov.uk.

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A vision for online consultation and policy engagement

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

We discuss what government should do to consult, engage and involve people more openly in the work it does, online.

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What was the evidence? Users’ information needs and analytics

Posted by: alphagov, Posted on: 23 May 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK, User research

We share learnings we got from analytics about what people are doing when visiting government web pages.

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Mike Bracken appointed as HMG Executive Director for Digital

Posted by: The Digital Engagement Team, Posted on: 20 May 2011 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK, Transformation

...run one of the first official Government data hack days after the alpha launch of data.gov.uk and later hosting the site’s full launch at the Guardian in January 2010. Mike...

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It's all about the nodes and what lives at them

Posted by: alphagov, Posted on: 16 May 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

To say that no-one wants to visit a government website is an over-simplification. But it's certainly true that the compulsion is significantly different from what drives people to a destination website like BBC News or Facebook, or from something customer-facing …

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Agile does work in government

Posted by: Jamie Arnold, Posted on: 13 May 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK, Ways of working

Just as there are trends in technology, there are fashions in project management and some feel that agile is poorly suited to government and is just a fad. One of the principle objectives for this project was to demonstrate that …

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