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The Government Transformation Strategy - one year on
A year ago we published the Government Transformation Strategy. This strategy outlines how we – GDS and everyone across all departments – are working to transform government together. Over the past...
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Data team wins Future Policy Network award
The Future Policy Network is a cross-government group of teams that focus on innovative approaches to delivery and policy making. To celebrate the one year anniversary of the network and recognise...
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Making sure our blogging meets user needs
When I joined GDS as the head of editorial in March last year, we had 15 different blogs. It was a real mix – the main GDS blog, some community-focused blogs and some programme blogs. The blogs had a...
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Sprint 18: talking about the future of transformation
On 10 May GDS will be hosting Sprint 18. This will be an event to celebrate all the great work that has been done so far to transform government – and to look at what we’ll be doing next. We’re...
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GDS: proving what’s possible
Earlier this month I visited GDS staff in the White Chapel Building with my senior management team. I was last there in the summer – and it was great to see everyone now fully settled in. The office...
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What we need to do to support end-to-end services across government
We’re currently updating the Digital Service Standard. The standard exists to help government build and run effective, user-focused digital services, and came into force in April 2014. We’re updating...
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Celebrating International Women’s Day
To mark International Women’s Day, we’ve asked our colleagues in technical roles to share what it’s like to work in government and how we can encourage more women to join the digital, data and...
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Help the Digital Marketplace go global
The Digital Marketplace is transforming the way government buys technology and digital services by opening the market up to small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) suppliers. A total of £3.2 billion...
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The GDS Academy foundation course: 1,000 graduates and counting
Today the GDS Academy celebrates the 1,000th graduate from its digital and agile foundation course. This 10-day course - an introduction to agile and digital in government - has been running since the...
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What do we mean when we talk about services?
We’re currently iterating the Service Standard. As it says in the Government Transformation Strategy, we need to transform whole citizen-facing services, to continue to make things better for users...
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