Government Digital Service

May 25

Identity Assurance gets closer to market

As more and more government services are being provided online, it is becoming increasingly important to have a simple and user-friendly way for users to assert their identity in order to access these services. This access should be consistent across government, secure and able to preserve users’ privacy. A cross-Government approach to identity assurance took a major step towards market this week with the issue of an Invitation to Tender for one of the Government’s key digital services.

May 23

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Digesting cookies

An understanding of how cookies work is the first step in helping people to make informed decisions about the impact of these technologies on their online privacy. Read more about cookies

May 17

Sir Bob Kerslake -Twitter accounts to follow

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Cabinet Office launches social media guidance for civil servants

Today Cabinet Office announced the publication of guidance for civil servants on the use of social media as well as guidance for Departments to overcome the technical barriers to civil servants accessing the internet and social media channels.

May 16

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Norwegian Government visit GDS

GDS was pleased to welcome a group visit from the Norwegian Government last week. The following is a guest post from Heather Broomfield, Open Data manager at Difi - the Norwegian agency for Public Management and eGovernment.

Last week a delegation from Norway visited GDS to see how they are realising their goal of ‘delivering their digital products that meet peoples needs’. Prior to travelling we were all familiar with Martha Lane Fox’s DirectGov 2010 report and particularly liked the ‘Revolution not Evolution’ motto. We wondered to what extent this was being realised. In GDS change is in the air from the second you walk in the door, it didn’t take us long to realise that something really different was happening here. A few hours in the building made it clear that this revolution is actually taking place. ‘Revolution not evolution’ is not just a fancy line in a public document. Read more about Norway’s visit to GDS

May 14

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Feedback isn’t just for Cobain and Hendrix – what we heard from the Inside government beta

‘I love this site! …This is perhaps the finest example of a government website in the history of the Internet.’
Member of the public

‘What idiot thought a single web site was a good idea? The separate ones are bad enough.’
Civil servant

These are genuine comments at the extreme ends of the feedback we received for the Inside government beta. Over the six weeks of the beta we received a lot more in between, and we were grateful for every last item of praise and criticism.

This post is about how we captured that feedback, what we learned from it and what we are going to do as a result. Read more about feedback for the Inside government beta

May 14

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Good Practice Guides: Enabling Trusted Transactions

Today we’re publishing a series of Good Practice Guides (GPGs) for potential providers of identity assurance for government services. They can now be found on the Cabinet Office site.
Read more about the Good Practice Guides

May 4

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Estonia’s technology economy and online service provision- back to the future?

This week I spent a few days visiting Estonia with Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, Liam Maxwell, the new Deputy CIO and colleagues with Cyber Security responsibilities. We came to see how a small country of 1.3 million has developed a culture and system of Governance and public service provision using the Internet and transparency as core principles.
Read more about Estonia’s technology economy

Apr 30

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Delivering INSIDE GOVERNMENT

On 28th February, GOV.UK released a second beta – INSIDE GOVERNMENT.

So, six weeks later, what have we learned? From the benefits of ‘storytime’ to the real value of precocious developers, Pete Herlihy outlines some of the things the team learned delivering this release.

Apr 26

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Open Standards consultation – important update

On 4th April 2012, Dr Andy Hopkirk facilitated a roundtable on behalf of ICT Futures on Competition and European Interaction. Liam Maxwell, Deputy Government CIO, examines the appropriateness of this facilitation based on information which has since come to light.

Apr 26

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Digital inclusion for the homeless

On Saturday 16th June, Westminster City Council with Go ON UK and GDS will be holding a hack day to help the homeless.

We need your help in making sure that the tools that come out of the day are useful, accessible and inclusive, for one of the least-served groups of digitally excluded people.

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Identity Assurance gets closer to market

Digesting cookies

Cabinet Office launches social media guidance for civil servants

Norwegian Government visit GDS

Feedback isn’t just for Cobain and Hendrix – what we heard from the Inside government beta

Good Practice Guides: Enabling Trusted Transactions

Estonia’s technology economy and online service provision- back to the future?

Delivering INSIDE GOVERNMENT

Open Standards consultation – important update

Digital inclusion for the homeless

GDS twitter accounts

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