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.
Rising to the challenge on open standards
You might think that we’ve gone a little quiet since we published the Open Standards Principles last November, but we’ve been working hard on getting together the processes and the people to lead on some of the open standards challenges …
FCO travel services check-in to GOV.UK
This morning we fully welcomed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on to GOV.UK. There are lots of new features and services but a big focus for our team has been building the new Foreign Travel Advice pages. Foreign Travel …
GOV.UK is going Worldwide
...clearer, faster Worldwide takes over from some long established and well-used sites and attempts to tackle a number of challenges troubling those sites by making them simpler, clearer and faster....
This week at GDS
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHlJwPJ7Nyw This week GOV.UK is up for the Designs of the Year awards at the Design Museum and the exhibition opened on Wednesday, the Department for Culture Media and Sport...
Widgets, badges and blog bling. What stuff can I embed on GOV.UK?
One of the questions publishers in government departments are asking us a lot at the moment is "Can I embed [insert name of web app here] on GOV.UK?" In the spirit of "publish, don't send" this blog post sets out …
Building the standard
...managers and their teams. It also introduced project pages where service managers could record their progress and share their learnings: Guides and toolkits were stored on Github, then synced into...
Intranets: DCMS doing it right
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...the site to be responsive to different screen sizes, using open standards. They launched the beta early, despite knowing it still had rough edges, because nothing beats real feedback from...
This week at GDS
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUoQgUswXGo A busy end to the week. We announced the beta release of the Digital by Default Service Standard and the changes to the CIO profession yesterday. We also had...
Design and public services
...focus on users runs throughout the report, "A design approach to public services starts not with service providers but with citizens, customers and service users." Lots of the examples given...
Beta testing the Service Standard
...to help build services that meet the standard. What good looks like The standard will be applied to all large services from April 2014. The point of the standard is...
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