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- Open ended? – Digital by Default digitalbydefault.com
Generational change (for the worse)
- suitenumerique/docs github.com
Docs is an open-source text editor: web-native, made for real-time collaboration, cleanly structured documents and sub-documents with full ownership of your data. Built to scale with Django and React.
#blocknotejs#collaborative #django #documentation#g2g #government #knowledge#knowledge-base#mit#mit-license #opensource #reactjs#realtime-collaboration #self-hosted #wiki#yjs #python We think taking a new approach makes it possible to shift government from an organisation of programmes and projects, to one of missions and services. It offers even constrained administrations an opportunity to improve their chances of delivering outcomes, reducing risk, saving money, and rebuilding public trust. Brilliant.
- People first, always peoplefirsttech.org
We are sharing these recommendations to advocate for a practical and pragmatic approach to delivering change that starts locally, builds skills across the four nations of the UK, and makes public service attractive for a generation that wants to build a better, more equitable society.
- What next for digital government and Government as a Platform? martinlugton.com
GDS is thinking about its strategy for 2025-30. I’m Head of Product in the Digital Service Platforms part of GDS - you might have previously known it as…
By treating some digital services as public infrastructure, countries from tiny Estonia to giants such as India and Brazil are reimagining what sovereignty and state capacity could look like in a world of bits and bytes.
- Hundreds of lives ruined. Not a single person held to account. And still: silence on the Post Office scandal | Marina Hyde theguardian.com
It might be nice to think it is, but I don’t believe that getting angry on Twitter particularly helps anyone other than Elon Musk, or that sitting in judgment on every passing infraction is anything other than a hiding to nothing. It is not effecting change – it is the illusion of effecting change. It is exactly the sort of looking-the-wrong-way that allowed the Post Office scandal to happen – and if we keep doing it, the people who really run things will keep on getting away with it.
- Mini-Budget. Major Catastrophe. kamikwasi.tax
- The rise and fall of GDS: lessons for digital government – Global Government Forum globalgovernmentforum.com
- Anna Shipman : JFDI annashipman.co.uk
Russell Davies's strategy advice 08 July 2019 Last year, I met the excellent Russell Davies to ask his advice on how to create a strategy. Russell was the…
- Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility - Accessibility in government accessibility.blog.gov.uk
Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better for our users. Karwai is part of an…
- Manual docs.publishing.service.gov.uk
Manual Common tasks 2nd line A/B testing Accounts Analytics Applications Architecture Assets AWS accounts Backups Basics CDN & Caching data.gov.uk Databases…
- What I Learned in Six Years at GDS ◆ 24 ways 24ways.org
Anna Shipman 8 Dec ember 2018 Published in Business No comments When I joined the Government Digital Service in April 2012, GOV.UK was just going into public…
- Adding value, by adding values public.digital
This week I had the great honour of being named by the RSA as the first Royal Designer for Industry for Service Design. My hope is to inspire the next…
Key takeaways GDS are trying to transform the UK government, to become digital-by-default GDS philosophy puts users first, with a focus on agile principles and…
Citizens can get the information and services they need more quickly because users' needs are considered in government service design, and suppliers can work…
- How we’ve made GOV.UK Elements even more accessible - Accessibility accessibility.blog.gov.uk
At GDS we’ve brought together a range of elements that teams can use to make sure their services look and operate consistently with the rest of GOV.UK. This…
- 18F: Digital service delivery | Building a large-scale design system: How we created a design system for the U.S. government 18f.gsa.gov · Archived on
Today, there are nearly 30,000 U.S federal websites with almost no consistency between them. Between the hundreds of thousands of government employees working…
What We’ve Learned About 508 Compliance That All Technologists Can Use By Nick Heiner As government technology improves and accelerates, the U.S. Digital…
- We’re building an autocomplete | Design notes designnotes.blog.gov.uk
We’re building an autocomplete. These are sometimes called typeaheads. They can help users answer questions, and help services get more consistent data. We’ve…
- How to create content that works well with screen readers | Accessibility accessibility.blog.gov.uk
The video below shows a screen reader in use on the GOV.UK homepage: Screen readers are applications that turn on-screen content into speech or show it on a…
- The Government IT Self-Harm Playbook medium.com
2014: the high point of government’s war on Big IT Are we really this stupid? At a time when other governments are getting a grip on their IT , the UK is in…
- Introducing GOV.UK Frontend Alpha | GDS design notes designnotes.blog.gov.uk
An early prototype of the GOV.UK Frontend site We’re working on a new project at GDS to create a simpler, better way of building user interfaces for government…
- Why we use progressive enhancement to build GOV.UK | Technology at GDS gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk
There seems to be a common belief among front-end developers that progressive enhancement is either old fashioned or has simply been replaced by single page…
- Inside the Obama Tech Surge as it Hacks the Pentagon and VA — Backchannel backchannel.com · Archived on
Star Spangled Geeks To the dismay of government contractors, the United States Digital Service is gloriously hacking away in the VA and the Pentagon. USDS…
- NHS to scrap single database of patients' medical details theguardian.com
The Caldicott review said patients must know what their data may be used for and how they can opt out if they do not want it shared.Photograph: AW/Alamy The…
- Why I left GDS samsharpe.net
15 April 2016 In which I explain the many and varied reasons why I decided that my life wouldbe happier outside of the Government Digital Service after 3+ years…
- We’ve updated the prototype kit | GDS design notes designnotes.blog.gov.uk
The GOV.UK prototype kit is the tool we use for rapidly creating HTML prototypes for GOV.UK services. Today we released version 2.0.0 of the kit It’s got…
Home being built 1. Help to Buy Shared Ownership: current restrictions on who can buy a home through shared ownership will be removed from April 2016 Shared…
- Introducing the NHS.UK Alpha | NHS.UK Alpha digital.nhs.uk
The energy and enthusiasm at last week’s NHS Innovation Expo was striking – lots of people wanting to exploit the potential of better digital and technology…
A UK-based entrepreneur, they hope, will decide to open her business in Estonia, use an Estonian bank and pay for some Estonian services, even if the company was only going to be trading in the UK, because she would find Estonia's national infrastructure far easier to deal with than the UK's. In other words, a nation is now competing with its neighbours on the basis of the quality of its user interface. Just as you might switch your bank to one with a better mobile app, the Estonians hope you'll switch your business to a country with an infrastructure that is easier to use.
Via tomtaylor.
- Traditional treatment for depression is not always the answer theguardian.com
The bottom line here is that this idea would punish people for not accepting the route one version of how to combat an extremely complex and multi- faceted condition, one which experts are constantly labouring to better understand.
- a unit of delivery russelldavies.typepad.com
I met an old advertising friend the other day and he said, so what is GDS? So I thought I should try and explain.
- Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
What WikiLeaks is really exposing is the extent to which the western democratic system has been hollowed out. In the last decade its political elites have been shown to be incompetent (Ireland, the US and UK in not regulating banks); corrupt (all governments in relation to the arms trade); or recklessly militaristic (the US and UK in Iraq). And yet nowhere have they been called to account in any effective way. Instead they have obfuscated, lied or blustered their way through. And when, finally, the veil of secrecy is lifted, their reflex reaction is to kill the messenger.
While it's frustrating to think of any hosting provider cutting services to a website because it considers the content too politically volatile or controversial, it's especially disheartening to see Amazon knuckle under to pressure from a single senator. Other Internet intermediaries should now expect to receive a phone call when some other member of Congress is unhappy with speech they are hosting. After all, it worked on Amazon.
- Scripting News: WikiLeaks on the run scripting.com
Politicians should be aware that these are the stakes. They either get used operating in the open, where the people they're governing are in on everything they do, or they go totalitarian, around the globe, now.
- MoD sticks with insecure browser | Kable kable.co.uk
"According to parliamentary written answers received by Labour MP Tom Watson, the majority of departments still require staff to use IE6. Most have plans to upgrade to the more secure IE7, and some to IE8, but the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has no plans to change." Deary me. Hardly surprising. IE6 still unfortunately a player.
- whitehouse.gov Website Code dotnetperls.com
You want to read about the code structure of the new whitehouse.gov website on this historic Inauguration Day of the 44th president of the USA. The site is built on ASP.NET
- Free our data: Plenty of ideas for freeing government data and finding a loo | Technology | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
Winners announced.
The new guidelines for UK public sector bodies on ‘Delivering inclusive websites’ are a bewildering blend of the vague with the Draconian.
- Show Us a Better Way showusabetterway.com
The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated.
- FixMyStreet fixmystreet.com
Another excellent mySociety hack.