This week at GDS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIpwUs5lv14 Highlights: Savings of £10bn were announced by the Efficiency and Reform Group this week - the part of the Cabinet Office in which GDS sits. Technology and GOV.UK have...
Getting up to Standard
The Government Digital Strategy says that all new or redesigned digital services will meet the Digital by Default Service Standard from April 2014. Before then, GDS is using the standard to support the Cabinet Office spending controls, to deepen knowledge of …
Moving on from GDS
I've been Creative Lead on the design team at GDS for the last two years, and I'm really thrilled about my next step. On Monday I'm joining the design team at Twitter. I've been asked to write a blog post …
Reforming governance in government technology
We announced in March that we would reform the governance of our technology provision in central government. We need a simpler, clearer model of governance based on user needs. Those users are our colleagues as well as citizens and this …
Benefits of diversity
...for the job and we also allow ourselves to increase our scale of operation by having different people or teams work on something independently. The advantages and challenges of code...
Identity Assurance: Maintaining Good Practice
On Friday (31 May) we published a new version of the Good Practice Guide (GPG) 45 – Identity Proofing and Verification of an Individual. It can be found on the Cabinet Office site together with the full set of previously …
This week at GDS
...Force. We’ve also actually started cracking code, or writing code, on the Beta for the Carers’ Allowance transaction. We’ve also managed to hire some Agile coaches into a couple of...
Assisted digital support for the Lasting Power of Attorney
...the LPA exemplar. We'll also be running workshops with our Stakeholder Reference Group on other exemplar services and will be talking to members of the Digital Advisory Board to get...
This week at GDS
Highlights: The launch of new guides for Chief Technology Officers on the Digital Service Manual. We also published the latest quarterly update on the transaction explorer which for the first...
Starting the conversation about providing assisted digital support
...to develop assisted digital support for digital services. This will give the 18% of UK adults who are offline access to digital by default services. Assisted digital support will be...
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