As with most of our work at the Government Digital Service, we release things early for review and comment. The digital inclusion team, set up last year, would like to share and get your feedback on an alpha version of …
Just before Christmas we released dates for the next four cohorts on GDS’s Service Manager Induction and Development Programme.
Joshua Marshall is Head of Accessibility at GDS. Just before Christmas, we sat him down for a short chat about his work. In Joshua’s opinion, the single most important thing GDS has done to improve accessibility across government is “change …
Yesterday the BBC published data showing more people accessing iPlayer via tablet than via computer. This prompted me to update some of the data I gathered for the government's agreed approach to mobile last this time last year. The objective of the UK government's digital …
What a great way to say goodbye to 2013 - we exceeded 500,000,000 views on GOV.UK recently - which tells us that you're finding loads of ways to access our services. We'll keep working tirelessly to make things better, and …
When it comes to improving our offering, looking at what people search for on GOV.UK is one of the best ways we can understand what you want from government information. The search box allows you to articulate what you want …
Mike Beaven gives the latest news on the Transformation programme work going on at the Home Office, Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and DWP (Department for Work & Pensions). Lots of GDS people are speaking at events this …
Kathy talks about what we've been doing over the last few days at GDS, including the Digital Leaders meeting and our all-staff meeting. She also discusses Dan Collins' tool for examining page views of FCO travel advice, what we've learned …
This week started with the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, and saw the beginning of work alongside HMRC on their exemplar services. We're also gearing up for the beta release of the digital by default service standard next week.
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.