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Working in the open: why being inclusive matters

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 3 July 2017 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
Louise Downe portrait

...able to fully express myself means not only feeling comfortable at work, but also being able to fully achieve my potential. Alan Maddrell, Senior Content Designer I want the people...

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Discussing diversity at UKGovcamp

Posted by: Daniel Sintim, Leema Ahmed and Samantha Bryant - Delivery Manager for GOV.UK Pay, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 15 February 2017 - Categories: Events, GDS team, People and skills
Members of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic network

Photo: WN Bishop UKGovcamp is an annual unconference that’s dedicated to digital in the public sector. The GDS Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) network ran a stall and a...

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Making digital services better by engaging a diverse range of suppliers

Posted by: Gemma Phelan, Posted on: 19 August 2016 - Categories: Digital Marketplace
Map of DS2 and DOS supplier locations

...choose from. Most of the suppliers were based in London, too. To make things better we made lots of changes. In fact, we designed an entirely new framework. When the...

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Benefits of diversity

Posted by: Sam Sharpe, Posted on: 3 June 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy

...for the job and we also allow ourselves to increase our scale of operation by having different people or teams work on something independently. The advantages and challenges of code...

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