Join us for Services Week 2026
Join us for Services Week 2026
Services Week 2026 will run from 29 June to 3 July. Learn about this year's theme and how to get involved.
Welcoming our new minister
...introductory discussions about the Digital Marketplace, Common Technology Services, and Data Registers In a quick Q&A with GDS staff, the minister reiterated the importance of rebuilding the relationship between citizen...
What’s new with the Service Manual?
It’s been a few months since we last posted here about the Service Manual, the best place to find guidance and tools for government service teams. Here's an update.
Unconference: setting our own agenda for the latest all-staff meeting
We hold all-staff meetings to share what we’ve achieved and talk about what we’ll be doing next. People wanted to try an ‘unconference’ so everyone could get more involved.
Using mob programming to solve a problem
...code super quickly, and I think that’s what we’d been doing here. One of us would write some code to test a part of the user journey, and then when...
Introducing the GDS International team
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Alice Goldman - former Fast Streamer for Advisory International, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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The GDS International Team is now 4 months old and we thought it was about time to introduce ourselves. International collaboration plays a large part in what GDS does, from...
Making digital services better by engaging a diverse range of suppliers
...choose from. Most of the suppliers were based in London, too. To make things better we made lots of changes. In fact, we designed an entirely new framework. When the...
What service managers are thinking about
...definition of what 'service' means varies too. Does it mean something that's only public-facing? What about tools, platforms and software that we all share? Is a digital service different from...
Designing the Scottish government’s service standard assessments
I’m Katy. I’m currently working in the Digital Public Services and Business Transformation Division as part of the Scottish government’s Graduate Development Programme.
Kevin says hello
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Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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...week, it was announced that the UK is now ranked at the top of the United Nations' latest e-government index. That’s a great testament to the work being done by...
From John Manzoni: Changes at GDS
...services (GOV.UK Pay and GOV.UK Notify) that will save millions and make it easier for people across government to build services taken GOV.UK Verify from beta to live – a...
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Leading Government Digital and Data
