Same name, new ambitions
Same name, new ambitions
A new chapter begins. We unveil the name and vision for the new digital centre for government.
What’s happening with data
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data, GDS team
...for government as a platform, including discovery projects and ideas for registers. That work was all useful, but it’s just the smallest of beginnings. Our aim, and Paul’s job, is...
Stuff that matters, done the right way
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
...they constantly remind each other of the point of UC - to simplify welfare, help people gain sustainable employment, support the most vulnerable. They are agile. They update the service...
Why GOV.UK Verify matters
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK One Login
...to meet the demands of the services in the pipeline - we expect about 30 government services to be using GOV.UK Verify by April 2016 and the remaining 20 or...
My new favourite form. Really.
...Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Images Money Making better forms isn't easy I’m a forms specialist - I work with organisations to help them make their forms easier to fill in...
Learning and doing together
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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People and skills, Transformation
...middle of their two-day Service Design project - building a digital shop front for a fictional department store. It was good to see long-serving DWP staff, new to digital, enjoying...
Cambridge coding club for girls
Last month I was invited to give a talk as at the Cambridge University Computer Science lab.
It’s not about us, it’s about collaboration
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK, People and skills, Transformation
...with digital teams in departments all over the country, advising and supporting them GDS worked closely with colleagues from the Land Registry earlier this year, looking at data, registers, and...
Building a platform to host digital services
Right now, hosting services is one of the most time-consuming barriers for new digital services, and usually involves duplicating work done elsewhere. On the Government Platform as a Service team we’re working on solving that.
Digital in local government: a case study from Camden Council
There’s huge potential for digital transformation in local government as well as national government.
Registers: authoritative lists you can trust
We’ve mentioned registers a few times on this blog, most recently in relation to the work of the Land Registry building on the steel thread, the brilliant new Companies House public beta, and their importance for building platforms.
Related content and links
Be part of the transformation
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
Leading Government Digital and Data
