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