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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.

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Showing people around Inside government

Liz Hitchcock, 13 November 2012 - GDS team, GOV.UK

As one of the editors working on Inside government, visiting departments to introduce people to the platform can be really rewarding. Last month I went to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to help them with their final preparations …

Designing for the long read on Inside Government

Mark Hurrell, 13 November 2012 - Content design, GOV.UK

At GDS we intend the web to be the primary platform for publishing things like policy, speeches and detailed guidance, with any print documents taking a supporting role. As a consequence legibility online becomes hugely important, because the reader will …

Learning alongside the Inside Government team

John Ploughman, 12 November 2012 - GDS team, GOV.UK

...the work we do and for the Department for Transport on a wider basis. We publish a lot of statistics about the work we do, and about driving tests, and...

Updating the GOV.UK Performance Dashboard

Edward Horsford, 12 November 2012 - Data, GOV.UK

...yet still provide the detail when you need it. Example of hover on our daily visitors graph There’s another bonus to having these hovers - they encourage people to interact...

A little blog on the side - Inside Inside Government

Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, 12 November 2012 - GDS team, GOV.UK

In several recent posts about the upcoming release of Inside Government we’ve linked in passing to this little blog on the side - a Tumblr (update: the Tumblr is no longer in use by GDS) where we, the product team …

This week at GDS

Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, 9 November 2012 - GDS team

...its release, and pushed out an updated version of the Child Benefit Tax Calculator this week. Screenshot of the Child Benefit Tax Calculator On Wednesday the Communications team met with...

Iterating the trade tariff tool with HMRC

Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, 9 November 2012 - GOV.UK

One of the tools we’ve created on GOV.UK is the Trade Tariff tool. It contains up-to-date and historical information on the duty you have to pay when importing and exporting goods outside the UK and the EU. The tool lets …

Publishing the Digital Strategy as a website, rather than on one

Andrew Francis, 8 November 2012 - Digital strategy, GDS team, Transformation

I’m Andrew Francis and I’m a policy professional. So is my colleague Sheila Bennett. You might not have heard much from our profession here on the GDS blog recently, but...

Have I got government news for you?

Ross Ferguson - former Deputy Director for Portfolio Delivery on GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, 7 November 2012 - Content design, GOV.UK

...were asked how many government websites they visited for news. Just under half (49%) said they visited between 1 - 5 sites, 35% said they only ever visited one, while...

Welcoming the Digital Strategy

Sir Bob Kerslake, 7 November 2012 - Digital strategy, GDS team

When we launched the Civil Service Reform Plan in June, I said that the Civil Service of the future must look radically different and I asked civil servants to work together to deliver change while maintaining our core strengths and …