How we’re making it easier to access government forms online
How we’re making it easier to access government forms online
What we learned from user research with the public on completing PDF and online forms.
The Future is Here
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GDS team, Transformation
The future of UK Government Digital Services is here. On January 21st 2013 at Sprint 13 we will show the best of digital from across government, all packed into one morning.
This week at GDS
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
Lots of bits of GDS are going to be working with lots of bits of government during 2013. We're getting bigger, getting more scattered and it's important that we let each other know what's going on. One way we're going …
The Inside Government dashboard
Following the release of Inside Government, we’re releasing a dashboard to track progress and usage. New departments and organisations will be moving to Inside Government in the coming months. So far there are 17. The dashboard tracks the growth of …
Digital's place in the diplomatic toolkit
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Alison Daniels OBE - Deputy Director for Communications; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Posted on:
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Digital engagement, Digital strategy
Departments' Digital Strategies showed how far the impact of digital has been within government. For the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the addition of social media tools to the diplomatic arena will be incredibly important, as Chief Digital Officer Alison …
Digital Transformation in 2013: The strategy is delivery. Again.
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, Transformation
In 2011, while gearing up to take on my current role, I discussed with the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, the strategy I recommended we adopt for all things digital. The strategy was to be disarmingly simple: to …
The End of the Beginning
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Digital strategy, GDS team
Today’s launch of 18 departmental digital strategies is a statement of ambition for the reform of public services. Mike Bracken writes about what these plans for digital transformation mean.
The Highest Jump
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GDS team
In November the Government Digital Strategy set out a shared vision for digital by default government; our digital services must be so straightforward and convenient people prefer to use them. This strategy committed government departments to 14 actions and was …
Supporting access to the Digital Strategy
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Mark McLeod - former Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Digital strategy
Today we published the Government Approach to Assisted Digital as part of the Government Digital Strategy. Assisted Digital provision is the help and support we will provide so people who can’t use digital services independently can access digital by default …
Researching Inside Government
Hi I’m Angela, I work in the User Research Team and would like to talk about the range of research we conducted in the run up to the launch of Inside Government. Just to recap, on 15 November the GDS …
The role of the agile wall at GDS
As Mark mentioned in his blog post last week, daily stand ups at GDS take place in front of the team walls. The walls are a great focus for the teams, but they have a lot of other benefits that …
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