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Directgov - our story

Posted by: Guy Ker, Posted on: 29 July 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

Directgov was launched in April 2004 to allow people to access public services and government information in a single place. We know that people care little about the structures of...

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We are not the first to tread this path

Posted by: David Mann, Posted on: 9 May 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

...DEFRA Defra relaunched their website based on WordPress, an open source platform. You can read Simon Everest’s presentation here on how and why DEFRA made this choice. Alpha.gov.uk is built...

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