e-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 ArticleHappy birthday e-petitions - a year in numbers
E-petitions is the very first product delivered by GDS and last week it celebrated its first birthday. Pete Herlihy, product owner for e-petitions reviews the year in numbers. It’s been an eventful and...
View ArticleHow many people are missing out on JavaScript enhancement?
A few weeks back, we were chatting about the architecture of the Individual Electoral Registration web service. We started discussing the pros and cons of an approach that would provide a...
View Article'Government as a data model' : what I learned in Estonia
I’ve just got back from a few days in the Republic of Estonia, looking at how they deliver their digital services and sharing stories of some of the work we are up to here in the UK. We have an ongoing...
View ArticleI fought the law and the users won: delivering online voter registration
Last week we launched a new online service allowing people to register to vote. This is a big deal. This is a really, really big deal. You can now get on the electoral roll in just a few minutes, even...
View ArticleGov, where’s my stuff?
We want to see how platforms can improve the way people communicate with government. As part of this, we’re starting discovery work on status tracking and notifications. Put simply, we want to improve...
View ArticleStatus tracking - making it easy to keep users informed
Last month, we started discovery around status tracking and notifications. We’ve discovered a bunch of interesting (and surprising) things and are now moving into a 4-6 week alpha delivery of a...
View ArticleLocal government services to start using GOV.UK Notify
GOV.UK Notify – the government's digital communications platform – is fast becoming established in central government. 70 service teams (from 34 different organisations) have used it to send more than...
View ArticleGOV.UK Notify is sending messages for more than 1,500 services across the...
The Government Digital Service (GDS) collaborates across the public sector to help organisations meet their users’ needs. GOV.UK Notify is one example of how GDS does this. It lets service teams send...
View ArticleGOV.UK Notify is available for the public sector to use for emergency staff...
GOV.UK Notify – the government’s messaging platform – is available for all public sector organisations to use for emergency staff communications and business continuity messaging. This is particularly...
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