Update from the GDS Responsible AI Advisory Panel
Update from the GDS Responsible AI Advisory Panel
How is government using AI responsibly? Insights, challenges and next steps from the GDS’s Responsible AI Advisory Panel.
Striking a balance between security and usability
Last year our boss Mike Bracken talked at the Code for America Summit in San Francisco, and spoke about the need to strike a balance between usability and security. There is a point beyond which over-zealous security gets in the …
Improving GOV.UK on mobile devices
Mobile use on GOV.UK has increased significantly since launch in October 2012, moving from around 15% to 23% of the overall audience.
Looking back at Sprint 14
We made two short videos for Sprint 14 that give you a little glimpse into the work being done by teams all over the country to transform services. Both show what it's like to be working on the exemplars, but …
GDS visits UKGovcamp
...London. Find out more at: http://www.ukgovcamp.com/ Transcript Jeremy Gould, Founder UKGovcamp I spent 2006 and 2007 meeting lots of really interesting people around government and around the outskirts of government,...
GOV.UK page performance: are we fulfilling our content goals?
In the content team we’ve developed new theme dashboards that give us a page-level indication of GOV.UK mainstream content performance. These dashboards are useful to everyone in GDS, as GOV.UK user data can reveal how people interact with government services, …
Publishing Digital Service Assessments
Posted by:
Mark McLeod - former Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Service design
The Digital by Default Service Standard comes into full force in April this year. We’ve been running assessments for a while now, and as with the services we assess, we’re also looking to continuously improve the assessment process itself with …
200 days of transformation, 200 days to go
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Sprint, Transformation
We set an ambitious challenge at Sprint 13; transform government in just 400 working days. Today Sprint 14 marked the halfway point, and the results are terrific; the transformation programme has wrapped up its discovery phase four public betas have …
Government documents - understanding what users need
...government: Sharing or collaborating with government documents - proposal Viewing government document - proposal If you want to know more about what happens next, you can read about how we...
Browser, operating system and screen resolution data for GOV.UK
Posted by:
Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Data, GOV.UK, Technology
...share headline data on what browsers, operating systems and screen resolutions we've seen over the past month across the whole site. I hope it's useful. Rank Browser Jan-14 Jan-13 1...
Sprint 14 - Showcasing digital public services - simpler, clearer, faster
...on - making it easier for people to do things like register to vote, book driving tests, complete tax returns, or apply for a visa to visit the UK. These...
Related content and links
Be part of the transformation
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
Government Digital and Data
Download the GOV.UK App
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.