Today we announced some small but important changes in governance. The detail is here but the upshot is: we won’t have a cross-government Chief Information Officer (CIO) any more, nor a Head of Profession for Information and Communications Technology (ICT). …
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.
Two big releases this week, with the new additions to Inside Government and the release of the Content Explorer, and we've visited DFID and the Student Loans Company up in Scotland.
We're just back from an all-staff meeting, which was a great chance to see what teams throughout GDS have been up to over the last few weeks. We've also had meetings with the National Audit Office and the Efficiency and …
Another busy week at GDS, including reaching the milestone of 100 million visits to GOV.UK. We also attended a lot of behind-the-scenes meetings to start planning and looking at the transformation of 23 exemplar services across seven departments.
A very warm welcome to the Scotland Office, as they make the move to GOV.UK, during what's been another busy week at GDS. The Digital Advisory Board came in for a visit, and we've also published many of the videos …
Mike Bracken sums up this week's Sprint 13 showcase of digital work across Government, with keynote speeches from Francis Maude, Martha Lane Fox and Stephen Kelly setting the agenda for 400 days of digital service delivery. The Department of Energy …
Another busy week at GDS, including the release of the Transactions Explorer and the announcement of Paypal as the eighth supplier for the Identity Assurance programme. We've also seen visits from the RPA and from the Minister for Civil Society …
Lots of bits of GDS are going to be working with lots of bits of government during 2013. We're getting bigger, getting more scattered and it's important that we let each other know what's going on. One way we're going …
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 …