GDS Local shares the latest developments on how the initiative is supporting digital transformation in councils.
One of the first headings in the GOV.UK editorial style guide is ‘Ever-changing style guide’. And it has just changed again. Biggest change for GOV.UK The biggest change is more...
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been visiting some of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) operations staff, who have given us really useful feedback about GOV.UK.
Rather than running our own room full of servers, or worrying too much about physical computers, we have chosen to run GOV.UK on an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. What does that mean and why did we make that …
In the process of making mistakes, there is an opportunity to learn a lot, but not just for the person or team making the mistakes. Louise Kidney, Digital Engagement Lead, shares some of the learning from the Digital Engagement Team …
As work progresses on the Inside Government publishing platform, Neil Williams, Product Manager, explains some of the thinking behind using a 'noise not restriction' approach and asks for Departments input on where restriction might be necessary.
...recognise that there are many companies who do not meet the strict definition of SME but should nevertheless be given the opportunity to showcase their work. ‘Why these companies?’ -...
As you will know, we at GDS are building GOV.UK, currently in beta at www.gov.uk. As part of that process we have been thinking about the best way to host...
The Civil Service Reform (CSR) plan talks a lot about the need for open policy making - a more inclusive approach to developing government policy that engages people who have simply not had the opportunity to participate in policy discussions …
...that needed checking; looked at websites that had been changed and asked to provide user feedback on them; worked with the Inside Government team, checking site content; I met other...
We’re doing a lot of user testing over the summer, and Sarah Prag has a quick update on a couple of things we’ve already changed based on what we’ve learnt so far.
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