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This week at GDS

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 23 August 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...have to touch, so when they get a call they can allocate it to a particular topic, and they've recently just had to add a button where you can just...

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Performance dashboards released for six FCO services

Posted by: philbuckley5, Posted on: 31 July 2013 - Categories: Data, Service design

Last week we released performance dashboards for six Foreign & Commonwealth Office services, including payment for registering births, marriages and deaths abroad.

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FCO travel services check-in to GOV.UK

Posted by: Sara Bowley, Posted on: 25 March 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

This morning we fully welcomed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on to GOV.UK. There are lots of new features and services but a big focus for our team has been building the new Foreign Travel Advice pages. Foreign Travel …

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Digital's place in the diplomatic toolkit

Posted by: Alison Daniels OBE - Deputy Director for Communications; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Posted on: 8 January 2013 - Categories: Digital engagement, Digital strategy

...more comprehensively across every element of foreign policy work. Our new guidance encourages staff to use social media. While we don’t expect all staff to use social media in the...

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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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