Since launching in 2016 GOV.UK Pay has now processed £8 billion in card payments online and over the phone. Here we look at how we’ve used data to grow the product to this milestone.
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.
There’s huge potential for digital transformation in local government as well as national government.
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.
We want to see how platforms can improve the way people communicate with government. As part of this, we’re starting discovery work on status tracking and notifications.
The technology you use to do your job should help you achieve more. When it doesn’t it’s frustrating.
...a few weeks, that entire data set will be available for free, as open data, to everyone and anyone who wants it. This is just a small part of Defra’s...
We've talked a lot about the preparation work we're doing for Government as a Platform.
Three months ago, when I was appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office, one of the first things I wanted to do was visit GDS. I'd worked with GDS over recent...
...Mayank Prakash at DWP, and Sarah Wilkinson at HO amongst them. As we continue to develop the Digital and Technology profession in government there can only be more opportunity for...
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...
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
