#Sprint19 live blog: 19 September 2019
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How we support service design across government
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Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS, Posted on:
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Service design
Service design is an established role in government. In this post, Martin Jordan, Head of Service Design at GDS, gives an overview of the various formats of support and activities available to people working on improving public services in the UK.
Developing a learning approach for the content design profession
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Laura Billings - former Communities Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, People and skills
...pace and in their own location. Compared to the previous 2-day face-to-face classroom training, this version: saves government £40,000 a year in learner travel and accommodation reduces the time to...
A public service odyssey
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Alison Pritchard - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Sprint, Transformation
Alison Pritchard was named interim Director General of the Government Digital Service in August 2019. In this post, Alison shares her journey in government so far and talks about what she's looking forward to delivering in the next few months.
Podcast: On writing
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Sarah Stewart - former Senior Writer, Government Digital Service and Angus Montgomery - Strategy Advisor, Central Digital and Data Office, Posted on:
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Podcast, Ways of working
GDS senior creative writers Angus Montgomery and Sarah Stewart discuss the role of writers in government and how clear writing can help people to do their jobs better. If you’re asked to write a blog post, opinion piece or presentation, here are Angus and Sarah’s 10 tips for clear writing.
Emerging techies: Summer Diversity interns at GDS
...achieve in this field. Working in the Civil Service in the run-up to EU Exit is also a privilege and an incredibly useful experience. I now have the confidence to...
How we started the 'Muslims at GDS' community
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Dilwoar Hussain - Senior Frontend Developer, Government Digital Service and Arfah Farooq, Posted on:
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People and skills
...GDS can access. We announced it widely, which allowed people to join if they were interested. We asked people to introduce themselves when they joined the channel. 3. We took...
Back to the future: realising the strategy for innovation
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Sue Bateman - Deputy Director for Innovation, Central Digital and Data Office, Posted on:
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Technology, Transformation
...open data, data ethics and data sharing and – while I was there – brought in the Codes of Practice to make the data sharing powers in the Digital Economy...
Why you should set up a service community
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Kuba Bartwicki - Lead Designer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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People and skills, Ways of working
...service better for users When users interact with government, they want to do things like learn to drive or get benefits, which most often involve more than one part of...
Engaging UK suppliers in the Global Digital Marketplace Programme alpha phase
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Chantal Donaldson-Foyer and Warren Smith - former Director for the Global Digital Marketplace Programme, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Global Digital Marketplace
...or simpler procurement documents. We’re hoping to further develop the ICT Commissioning Playbook into a beta product. And we want to co-design capability and training strategies with our in-country partners....
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