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GOV.UK turned one today

Posted by: James Thornett, Posted on: 17 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

It's been a busy week at GDS, but this afternoon we took a few minutes out to celebrate the first birthday of GOV.UK. I wrote a bit this morning on the Inside GOV.UK blog about what the year has meant …

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Welcoming even more people to GOV.UK

Posted by: James Thornett, Posted on: 3 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

The transition team are the people responsible for helping hundreds more agencies and organisations move their websites onto GOV.UK. They’ve started blogging about that work, and I wanted to explain a bit more about what that work means for GDS.

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How is GOV.UK performing?

Posted by: James Thornett, Posted on: 23 October 2012 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK

Last week our new digital service GOV.UK moved out of public beta and replaced the two main government websites, Directgov and Business Link. As my colleague Mike Bracken explained at the time, GOV.UK is focussed on the needs of users, …

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