Update from the GDS Responsible AI Advisory Panel
Update from the GDS Responsible AI Advisory Panel
How is government using AI responsibly? Insights, challenges and next steps from the GDS’s Responsible AI Advisory Panel.
How the Sexual Health:24 service used GOV.UK patterns
...user needs in mind. They considered interactions including: how to tell people what the service is and how to encourage them to use it how to make things discreet by...
Platform as a Service team takes even-handed approach to meetings
...we’ve found to be effective. If you’re team adopts any other approaches, please share in the comments. Follow GDS on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....
Management by the team, not the managers
The People Board is elected by everyone in GDS, and is empowered to decide things and delegate tasks to other people and teams in GDS. This is how it works.
Being transgender at GDS
...that I wanted to transition full time to live my life as a woman rather than as a man. During 2015 I had come out as transgender to everyone outside...
Introduction to the new induction
A good induction should feel like checking into a beautifully designed 5-star hotel. You should be greeted on arrival and someone should be there to pre-empt any questions. They should...
It takes 2: how we use pair writing
I’m Sue. As a content designer at GDS, it’s my job to write content for everyone. This means I write in the simplest way to help our users do things...
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...
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