GDS Local is a new unit within the Government Digital Service (GDS) that brings central and local government together to improve how digital public services are designed and delivered. Working alongside councils, we’re helping create services shaped around real lives—easier to use, better connected and built on proven digital foundations.
...context and help make future government sites more accessible for everyone. Photo credit: Paul Downey Richard Pope was Product Owner on the Alpha.gov.uk prototype. You should follow @richardjpope on Twitter...
...driving test than an HGV one, more people get made redundant than have to make someone redundant, so we should optimise for the common case. The start of any process,...
Alpha.gov.uk will test a selection of products and technologies aiming to meet the needs that people have from government online.
...so Chris Chant has commissioned a project to test its feasibility. Chris has asked Tom Loosemore, formerly of the BBC’s web operation, to pull together the project. He will be...
The Government Digital Service is the new name for the organisation created by the merging of Directgov and the Cabinet Office Digital Delivery and Digital Engagement teams, following the recommendations...
...data will help citizens to make choices about their services and better enable them to converse and collaborate with Government. The Coalition Agreement stated that the Government will “create a...
...Martha Lane Fox’s report Directgov 2010 and Beyond: Revolution Not Evolution , his role in finding efficiency savings in the public sector’s use of technology and the future for digital...
...part of the Transparency agenda. The Review will enable Government to ensure that on-going releases of data are done in a way that provides maximum transparency of data consistent with...
Today in London, Europe’s first ever international data camp began with the UK’s Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, announcing that we are opening up data on central government...
Welcome to the new blog platform for the reconstituted and repurposed Transparency and Digital Engagement team. As with the old Digital Engagement blog the team will be using this to...
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