Same name, new ambitions
Same name, new ambitions
A new chapter begins. We unveil the name and vision for the new digital centre for government.
Introducing GOV.UK blogs
Blogging makes it easier for government to talk about its work, share information and ideas, and connect with those with a common concern. A few months ago, we launched the new GOV.UK blogging platform - which is designed to help …
This week at GDS
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Mike Beaven talks the report Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger: Remaking government for the digital age, an upcoming Digital Advisory Board meeting, Thursday's Open Standards event, and more.
Identity Assurance: First delivery contracts signed
Today we are happy to announce an exciting new phase in the Identity Assurance Programme as we develop user-focused identity services for exemplar transactions as part of the transformation of government digital services. Five of the Identity Providers on the …
Early design ideas for assisted digital from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
Over the past two weeks, the assisted digital project with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design has evolved from understanding the reasons that older people are either not online at all or are only partially online, to developing ideas for …
How we do user research in agile teams
Getting user research into agile teams in a way that is timely, relevant and actionable is a challenge that teams the world over are tackling. Working effectively in agile has recently been the driver of some fairly significant changes to …
Scaling Agile Practices to the GDS Portfolio
Here at GDS, agile thinking and techniques inform how we do what we do, this extends from delivering projects, programmes and the GDS portfolio of work. I've been working with a team of people to implement and run an agile …
Sharing ideas
At the start of the month I went out to Sebastopol, California, for Foo Camp. It was a feast of good conversations; a great opportunity to share and get feedback on the work we're doing at GDS, and to talk …
This week at GDS
...have to touch, so when they get a call they can allocate it to a particular topic, and they've recently just had to add a button where you can just...
Meet the assisted digital team
...assisted digital team - video transcript Rebecca Kemp (Team Leader, Policy, Government Digital Service): At the moment you have a digital service, you might have a paper channel, you might...
Learning in public with the LPA beta
...makes perfect Keeping the LPA service running, and improving it, is jointly owned by the OPG and MoJ's Digital Services Division. The two agencies are working across different locations, and...
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