In 2025, the digital Veteran Card went live, and private testing began for the digital driving licence. These were big milestones for the team building the UK Government’s first digital wallet – read on to find out what we’ve been doing.
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...
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.
We provide an introduction to Assisted Digital which allows customers with different support requirements to access digital services, ensuring no one is left behind.
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...
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.
We discuss what government should do to consult, engage and involve people more openly in the work it does, online.
We share learnings we got from analytics about what people are doing when visiting government web pages.
...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...
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 …
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 …
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
