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...
View ArticleDigesting 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. Dai – our resident cookie expert...
View ArticleIdentity 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...
View ArticleIdentity Assurance goes to Washington
Last week some members of the UK Identity Assurance team were invited to the White House to share, learn and collaborate with some of the key individuals and organisations in the US wrestling with the...
View Articlee-petitions: open source, open data and getting trendy!
Pete Herlihy, product owner for e-petitions talks about recent developments, sharing the code base and opening up the data. This week we delivered on earlier commitments to share e-petitions data and...
View ArticleGetting started on assisted digital
The Government Digital Service assisted digital team has been up and running for a few weeks now and we wanted to share some of our early thoughts. Digital skills class in Sunderland For starters, just...
View ArticleIf content is king, who rules our land?
As Sarah Richards has already said, the citizen beta of GOV.UK is as much about radical simplicity in words as it is about design and back-end innovation. In a few murky corridors, clarity is still...
View ArticleGCloud phase 2 – Apply now!
On May 18th, the new and improved Cloudstore was released. With added functionality and more interaction between government and supplier possible, Mark O’Neill, Proposition Director – Services,...
View ArticleFrancis Maude speaks at Intellect Public Services Conference 2012
“Digital is not another channel, it is the delivery choice for this generation” - Francis Maude, Minister for Cabinet Office said at the Intellect World-Class Public Services Conference today, 11 June...
View ArticleCabinet Office joins the Open Identity Exchange
On Tuesday, 12th June, Mike Bracken announced that the Cabinet Office will be joining the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). The Identity Assurance Programme team explain how this will enhance a process of...
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