How we’re making it easier to access government forms online
How we’re making it easier to access government forms online
What we learned from user research with the public on completing PDF and online forms.
Meeting the technology needs of government
We asked Matthew Coats from the Ministry of Justice, to talk about his experience at the first meeting of the Technology Leaders Network In the Ministry of Justice I’ve already seen the positive impact that doing things a different way …
Walking the talk in New York
Today is the election for the next Mayor of New York City. Mike Bloomberg cannot stand for a third term, and there are more than a dozen challengers competing to take his place. Whoever wins, I hope they support the …
GDS goes to Cabinet and the OGP summit
This week Mike Bracken has news of GDS' presentation to the Cabinet at No.10 and Nayeema Chowdhury talks about sharing GDS' work at the Open Government Partnership summit. Follow Mike Bracken on Twitter: @MTBracken
Better support across government
Today we’ve published the latest quarterly progress report about the work we’ve been doing with departments on the Government Digital Strategy. It highlights how we have turned our attention to improving services we provide to support departments moving to digital …
'Government as a data model' : what I learned in Estonia
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I’ve just got back from a few days in the Republic of Estonia, looking at how they deliver their digital services and sharing stories of some of the work we are up to here in the UK. We have an …
GDS goes to Cabinet
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
This morning I attended the weekly meeting of Cabinet ministers at Number 10. I was there to share more about what we're up to at GDS - and right across the civil service - to make government services simpler, clearer …
GDS this week
This week we have three quick updates on work that's been going on at GDS recently. Brij Thakrar talks about how we're training people to write for GOV.UK, Allon Lister introduces the Carer's Allowance public beta and Amy Whitney explains …
Expats: help us test a new service
EDIT: In response to the comments we have received we thought it would be helpful to explain up-front that we will be extending our testing so people will be able to take part wherever they live around the world when …
This week at GDS
This week, Kathy Settle, Director of Digital Policy and Departmental Engagement, looks back on GOV.UK's one year birthday and talks about the public beta release of the Carers Allowance service. Follow Kathy on twitter: @Kathy_Settle
New guidance for government devices
Last week GDS helped launch new guidance for securely using 11 common desktop and mobile operating systems in public sector organisations. CESG (the UK government’s National Technical Authority for information assurance) have led this, working closely with the team in …
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