This week at GDS
...they’re keeping their own website. They’ve done a whole revamp, and launched their new site, as well, last week. You can find that at nationalarchives.gov.uk. So, well done to them....
Supporting service managers
The Government Digital Strategy described a new role crucial for helping create digital services so good that people choose to use them - the service manager. We’ve started an induction and development programme for those people, prototyping and learning as …
Getting online in Gateshead
...event brought together organisations from all corners of society to Gateshead, to launch their north east digital inclusion programme. We heard from Martha Lane Fox, local government leaders, business and...
Welcoming even more people to GOV.UK
The transition team are the people responsible for helping hundreds more agencies and organisations move their websites onto GOV.UK. They’ve started blogging about that work, and I wanted to explain a bit more about what that work means for GDS.
This week at GDS
This week news of an office move at GDS, as well as new developments on open standards and the launch of Go ON North East. Rewired State are holding a...
First open standards selected
We set up an Open Standards Board last April to help us decide which open standards to use in government technology. Selecting and implementing open standards will make our services better and give us more flexibility in choosing our suppliers. …
This week at GDS
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accessibility, GDS team, GOV.UK, Transformation
...also work on Assisted Digital, which is profoundly important. All these jobs can be found out on the website: digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/jobs. Interviewer: Until next time. Mike Bracken: Till next time, onwards....
This week at GDS
...those of you who don’t know, Cape Town will be the World Design Capital for 2014. So, similar to other great cultural and sporting events, there’s one for design and...
Visiting Leicester Pension Service
...visit It was especially useful to speak to front-line staff and directly observe them delivering a service to customers. Their experiences in dealing with customers and their insights about older...
Latest data on government transactions
...been rewritten as a static site generated with Python, with some front-end functionality provided by JavaScript. As with most GDS products, the code is open-source and freely available on GitHub....
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