Welcoming the Digital Strategy
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 …
The UK's digital landscape
GDS has published the Digital Landscape Research today alongside the Government Digital Strategy. We want to tell you more about the research, and why we did it.
The Digital Efficiency report
...This won’t happen straightaway. There is lots of hard work, investment and development needed to make these savings a reality. But digital can make a real difference quickly. The report...
Shipping the digital strategy
As you know, today we launched the Government Digital Strategy. I’m part of the team that was tasked with putting these documents online, and from the outset we wanted to...
A bit more about assisted digital
...shouldn’t stop us going Digital by Default. The definition of Digital by Default in the strategy acknowledges that not everyone is online. In fact, the people who are offline are...
The Government Digital Strategy, and how it was written
...one in which people expect high quality, effective digital services. Currently, too many central government services offer a poor user experience, which leads to low rates of successful completion. To...
Tools over Content
I've talked before about various aspects of how we build software at GDS, and especially for GOV.UK, but I'd like to take a step back and about one of our early design rules: "tools over content".
What is Inside Government?
While you tuck into your toffee apple and enjoy the fireworks this evening, make sure you save a few oohs and aahs for us. In ten days’ time, on November 15, the first two government departments will move their corporate …
The next (business) link in the chain
...want to talk about GOV.UK’s other predecessor, businesslink*]}*.gov.uk, which came to its contractual end yesterday. In the beginning Businesslink*]}*.gov.uk was launched by the Small Business Service in 2004, to support...
This week at GDS
...the development of all of our platforms and products meanwhile, content designers and developers fixing bugs and making tweaks to copy and code wherever necessary on GOV.UK. As Gareth noted...
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Download the GOV.UK App
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.