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How GOV.UK Pay grew to processing £8 billion in transactions

GOV.UK Pay £8 billion. Showing GOV.UK Pay screen on an iPad and a mobile phone

How GOV.UK Pay grew to processing £8 billion in transactions

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.

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Weekend links: more Lego, lessons learned, DVSA and more

Posted by: Carrie Barclay, Posted on: 3 May 2014 - Categories: GDS team
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...it comes to sharing code between projects. We liked this post about using graphic design to make learning maths easier. The guys from FutureGov have written about their local government...

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When to use caps around GOV.UK

Posted by: James Holloway and Giles Turnbull, Posted on: 1 May 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK
Say the dot out loud

Why do we write GOV.UK in capitals? And why is the URL written lower-case? You may well have heard the reasons, but we've never actually written them down. Let's fix that now.

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Just doodling: telling the story with a few pen strokes

Posted by: Giles Turnbull, Posted on: 30 April 2014 - Categories: GDS team
Paul Downey - just doodling

One thing visitors to the GDS office can't help noticing is the colourful selection of cartoons and doodles stuck on the walls.

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Weekend links: hackathons, time travel, glow-in-the-dark motorways and more

Posted by: Carrie Barclay, Posted on: 26 April 2014 - Categories: GDS team
Google Street Map time machine of Aviation House

...busy helping anglers report their catch to the government - and they've been using agile to do it. Some clever folks in the Netherlands have developed light-absorbing glow-in-the-dark road markings...

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User needs and revolutions

Posted by: Padma Gillen, Posted on: 23 April 2014 - Categories: User research
User needs and revolutions

In 2010, Martha Lane Fox (the UK’s Digital Champion at the time) completed her review of the government’s web offering.

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Weekend links: Next Generation Testing, UK Trade and Investment, and more

Posted by: Carrie Barclay, Posted on: 19 April 2014 - Categories: GDS team
GDS Digital Marketplace

...interesting speakers at the Data Storytelling event at the National Audit Office this week. The BIS Internal Communications team were in attendance. Don't forget to sign up to email alerts....

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GOV.UK hosting - simpler, clearer, faster

Posted by: Carrie Barclay, Posted on: 17 April 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK
Moving GOV.UK to a new hosting platform

...Walker: @rjw1 Anna Shipman: @annashipman Brad Wright: @bradwright Carl Massa: @massacarl Albert Massa (Operations Manager for GOV.UK): @awmassa Don't forget to sign up for email alerts. Transcript On 25 March...

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Digital Inclusion Strategy launches today

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 14 April 2014 - Categories: Digital strategy
Digital Inclusion scale

...civil servants the digital capabilities to use and improve government services 4. Agree a common definition of digital skills and capabilities 5. Boost Go ON UK's Partnership Programme across the...

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Getting approval for agile spending

Posted by: David Wilks, Posted on: 11 April 2014 - Categories: Transformation

Today, GDS and HM Treasury publish new clarification of business case guidance. We needed to explain how government organisations get permission to spend money on agile work.

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The Performance Platform: open for business

Posted by: Richard Sargent, Posted on: 7 April 2014 - Categories: Data
Performance Platform service availability

The Performance Platform is a tool for government to answer the question ‘how are we doing?’. At present, the important facts are not accessible to the right people, at the right time, in the right way.

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