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.
Giving clear presentations
Like ‘bunting in the office’ and ‘cake on release days’, ‘slides with big words’ has become one of GDS’s hallmarks. A few weeks on from Sprint 16 I wanted to write about why we encourage that.
Guest post: looking at the different ways to test content
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Christine Cawthorne and Emileigh Barnes, Posted on:
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Content design, User research
Today we hear from two content experts sharing their thoughts about testing content. Christine works with GDS as a trainer, and is a content strategist. Emileigh is a lead content...
Building the service manager community
Eddie Davies is a service manager at Land Registry. Today he shares the experiences of the first cross-government service manager community meeting. Last week around 40 service managers and colleagues...
An open letter to our new Advisory Board
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...help us because you believe in the same things that we believe. We summarise those things in our Design Principles. We are agile. We put users first. Our first few...
An open address register
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Paul Maltby - former Director of Data, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data
The government will provide up to £5 million to develop options for an authoritative address register that is open and freely available.
Getting from data to registers
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Ade Adewunmi - former Head of Data Infrastructure, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms
...linked registers is even better. That’s why every register needs to be designed with the wider ecosystem in mind. The Register Design Authority And that’s the focus of the Register...
Digital principles for a better GDS
We’re aiming to bring together how we apply a digital way of thinking and our own design principles to make GDS a better place to work.
GDS and gender diversity at conferences and events
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills
Equality and diversity matters a lot to me, and to everyone here at GDS. I wrote about it a couple of weeks ago in my role as Cabinet Office LGB&TI...
Guest post: building a digital standard for local government
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Phil Rumens - Digital Services Manager, West Berkshire Council, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, Service design
Phil Rumens is the Digital Services Manager at West Berkshire Council and the vice-chair of LocalGov Digital. In this post, he talks about creating a Local Government Digital Standard.
Let's talk about service patterns
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Lou Downe - former Director for Design and Service Standards, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Service design
...birth and death of cattle, movement of livestock, getting a fishing license - they all amounted to the same thing. They were all licenses, of a sort. They all involved...
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