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 …
Today, we updated the Transactions Explorer, our tool for tracking performance data for the government’s transactional services.
In 2011, while gearing up to take on my current role, I discussed with the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, the strategy I recommended we adopt for all things digital. The strategy was to be disarmingly simple: to …
"Digital is not another channel, it is the delivery choice for this generation" - Francis Maude, Minister for Cabinet Office said at the Intellect World-Class Public Services Conference today, 11 June 2012
In the past few months this blog has made a few introductions and this will be the last for a while! We are very pleased to announce that Mike Bracken has been appointed as the Government’s new Executive Director for …
The Government Digital Service is the new name for the organisation created by the merging of Directgov and the Cabinet Office Digital Delivery and Digital Engagement teams, following the recommendations of the Martha Lane Fox review “Directgov 2010 and Beyond”. …
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