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Writing guidance for the service design manual
The Government Digital Service started out as a small group of people with experience building and running large online services. Since then we’ve grown the team, added lots of smart people, and talked...
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Building a network of trust around the Digital by Default Standard
The first thing you see when you walk into GDS is the 7 main messages which guided the build of the GOV.UK alpha. Visitors to GDS often scribble them down, and like our Design Principles they help...
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Design that Makes a Difference exhibition
Last Friday Rebecca Kemp, Joshua Marshall and I visited the opening of the ‘Design that Makes a Difference’ exhibition at the Royal College of Art. Josh is our accessibility lead and Rebecca leads the...
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Open Standards Board sets the direction
The first meeting of the newly formed Open Standards Board took place on Thursday last week (9 May). Liam Maxwell, the Government’s Chief Technology Officer, chaired the meeting writes Linda Humphries....
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Benefits of diversity
Sam Sharpe is an Operations Engineer at GDS, working within our Hosting and Infrastructure Team. This post was contributed to by others – see the change history for more details. After a talk by Jordan...
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Reforming governance in government technology
We announced in March that we would reform the governance of our technology provision in central government. We need a simpler, clearer model of governance based on user needs. Those users are our...
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2012/13 Savings: Better for Less
Last week the Efficiency and Reform Group (the part of the Cabinet Office that includes GDS) announced savings figures for the last financial year. In 2012/13 we helped departments save £10 billion, or...
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Digital Services Framework
Now that the application process for our new Digital Services Framework has opened, we thought it would be useful to say a bit more about what it is. What’s a framework, you ask? It’s a list of...
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The pivot: from publishing to transactions
Today we’re publishing our second quarterly progress report on the commitments made in the Government Digital Strategy. Transforming government services In 2011 the first challenge we faced was the...
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What about people who aren’t online?
‘What about people who aren’t online?’ is a question we’re often asked on the assisted digital team. So we decided to run a workshop at GDS’ Sprint Alpha event on 17th July to answer it. Assisted...
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