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GDS Local: building the foundations for digital collaboration

Rob Tabb, the lead for Liverpool’s Office for Public Sector Innovation, stands addressing a room full of council practitioners sat around tables at a workshop organised by GDS Local at the Innovation 2026 conference.

GDS Local: building the foundations for digital collaboration

GDS Local shares the latest developments on how the initiative is supporting digital transformation in councils.

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Thanks Mike

Posted by: Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 25 September 2015 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
Mike Bracken making his leaving announcement to staff.

...work done to date and our ambitions for what’s yet to come: “onwards”. That’s the direction we’re all heading; not so much parting ways, more like just forking the repository....

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What’s happening with data

Posted by: Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 25 September 2015 - Categories: Data, GDS team
Paul Maltby GDS

...and Government Innovation in the Cabinet Office since 2013, and is now leading the data workstream at GDS. His name will ring bells with anyone who’s worked in the data...

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Stuff that matters, done the right way

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 24 September 2015 - Categories: Transformation
Universal Credit (DWP) screengrab

...from the top of DWP, from Ministers and Permanent Secretary down. The Universal Credit SRO Neil Couling provides exemplary leadership (he’s at every show and tell), chair of the UC...

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Why GOV.UK Verify matters

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 23 September 2015 - Categories: GOV.UK One Login
Programme Director Janet Hughes talking about GOV.UK Verify

...and driving a market, and looking in and acting as one government. Well done to them. Follow GOV.UK Verify on Twitter and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....

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My new favourite form. Really.

Posted by: Caroline Jarrett, Posted on: 22 September 2015 - Categories: GOV.UK, User research
Photo of £1000 cash on top of a 2011 HMRC tax return form

...we’re discussing over 100 of them on our design patterns hackpad, and we only publish a pattern on our Service Manual when we’ve got plenty of evidence from user research...

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Learning and doing together

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 18 September 2015 - Categories: People and skills, Transformation

...is a 12-day introduction to digital delivery. It will prepare anyone who’ll be working on a digital project at DWP in the future for working in an agile, user-focused multidisciplinary...

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Cambridge coding club for girls

Posted by: Tatiana Soukiassian, Posted on: 16 September 2015 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
Flappy birds game

Last month I was invited to give a talk as at the Cambridge University Computer Science lab.

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It’s not about us, it’s about collaboration

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 10 September 2015 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK, People and skills, Transformation
Photo of a laptop covered in GDS stickers - including a "Look Sideways" sticker

...their vital role in the future of government as a platform as Pete Herlihy wrote just the other day, the status tracking and notifications platform team is working together with...

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Building a platform to host digital services

Posted by: Anna Shipman and Carl Massa, Posted on: 8 September 2015 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms

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.

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Digital in local government: a case study from Camden Council

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 7 September 2015 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms

There’s huge potential for digital transformation in local government as well as national government.

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