At GOV.UK One Login, we've tackled a significant challenge: helping government teams understand our constantly evolving digital identity service.
Dave Worley, a digital take-up advisor at GDS, describes how we are helping services across government to encourage users to use the digital service. Point 14 of the Digital Service...
...of our economy – for example, a lot of the food we eat and the clothes we wear originate from outside the UK. Government operations at the border are there...
...activity (like getting permission) should work both for users and government. Why use service patterns? Like any other kind of standard, service patterns will provide better interoperability between services, meaning...
Here at GDS we are privileged to meet digital teams from around the world, and we often stay in touch well after our first meeting.
...staff who’ve been generous with their time as I poked around their services, to the digital teams in departments and agencies who’ve knuckled down and redesigned their services around their...
A few weeks ago, we welcomed some friends from America to our office in London, members of the United States Digital Service (USDS) and 18F.
As part of the work we’re doing to prepare for government as a platform, we’ve been investigating ways to help government agencies use shared platforms and data registers to build better services.
Part of building government as a platform is people.
Most people have to pay government money at some point or another. For example, when you pay tax, or renew your passport, or get a new driver’s licence, or buy an environmental permit.
The other day, while driving along a local shortcut, I was faced with a ‘road closed’ sign and had to u-turn. Beyond the sign, there was no road where road had been yesterday.
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