...21st century ICT with digitally delivered public services offering greater convenience for users, better value for money for tax payers, and cost-saving opportunities for a wider range of public service...
...product. We have a product backlog to work through - that’s agile speak for a prioritised list of features written in the format of ‘user stories’ - which we mentioned...
...government departments and the Major Projects Authority, who have been asking for this clarification for months. This will cut bureaucracy and encourage innovation, making digital transformation easier across government. The...
...implications for the UK in this US led approach. Conversely, Don believes the UK is blazing a trail for an approach to Identity Assurance, as he points out in this...
...what we've found to work for other developers and designers wrestling with the same issues. To serve webfonts, you need two kinds of file: Web Open Font Format (.woff) for...
Last December we asked for your help in selecting the standard formats for documents produced by the government. We published two challenges on the Standards Hub - challenges are problems...
...a daily basis. Visiting a secondary school and researching with sixth-formers who weren’t used to completing official forms. Based on that research, our analysts and developers could create stories and...
...the ground up to help people working in digital understand how government was working in new ways to build services for its users. There was a real appetite for training...
Portrait of Sally Meecham I have been involved with GDS, or a forerunner to it, for more than a decade. Fifteen years ago I was at the Office of the...
...services like starting a business or getting health benefits. They include people from more than 15 organisations, making services easier to use for users and less costly to provide for...
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