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This week at GDS

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 12 July 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...saw a six-fold increase in our Egyptian content, and content about Egypt on GOV.UK, our travel advice service as well, so that was useful to see that people are using...

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Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 5 July 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...you might be dealing with an elderly relative, so to make it a simpler and clearer, faster digital service is a great achievement. We also attended Civil Service Live and...

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Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 28 June 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...well, Saudi Arabia, we met them. The good news is they’re all looking at us and what we’re doing. So we’re very much seen to be leading. I guess the...

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Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 21 June 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...exemplar, one they are doing off their own bat; a lot of ingestion of agile processes down there, so exciting stuff happening there. Just to give us a heads up...

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Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 14 June 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...want. A critical update was Search, obviously making the changes to Search is fundamental; we did that last week. Mark Hurrell, David Heath, Tara Stockford – there's been a team...

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Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 7 June 2013 - Categories: GDS team

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIpwUs5lv14 Highlights: Savings of £10bn were announced by the Efficiency and Reform Group this week - the part of the Cabinet Office in which GDS sits. Technology and GOV.UK have...

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Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 31 May 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...Force. We’ve also actually started cracking code, or writing code, on the Beta for the Carers’ Allowance transaction. We’ve also managed to hire some Agile coaches into a couple of...

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Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 24 May 2013 - Categories: GDS team

Highlights: The launch of new guides for Chief Technology Officers on the Digital Service Manual. We also published the latest quarterly update on the transaction explorer which for the first...

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Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 17 May 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...saw the launch of the Digital Skills Alliance, led by Martha Lane Fox at the Go ON UK Trust. Next week we've got our regular digital leaders' meeting on Wednesday...

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Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 10 May 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...helping SLC [Student Loans Company] select a technical transformation partner. So viewing supplier presentations, catching up with the good folks like Gordon Simpson and Tom Mead, and Martin Campbell up...

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