Traditional security processes and ‘security says no’ can often seem to block progress in agile environments but there are ways to build software securely without compromising agility. It’s all about ensuring security is built into your development best practices so …
I spoke recently at the Business Reporter’s Data Security in the Cloud event about how security has changed to face the reality of the modern internet era. The old world of assurance and compliance and ‘security says no’ won't cut …
As outlined recently by our executive director Stephen Foreshew-Cain in his vision for 2030, “platform thinking” is going to become a key part of government. We’re seeing this happen with the emergence of platforms such as GOV.UK Verify, GOV.UK Notify, …
G-Cloud 8 has just opened for supplier applications on the Digital Marketplace. From a supplier’s point of view the application process is much the same as previous frameworks but behind the scenes a huge amount of technical change has taken …
Last week, the Government Digital Service held its first community ‘unconference’ on the topic of technical and data standards within government. The event was a great success both in terms of turnout and participation. Over 70 government technologists came together …
Last year GDS did a lot of discovery work. As well as ongoing work evaluating what was next for many of the things we were already doing, we built teams exploring possibilities for new platforms, and we worked with colleagues …
Last month we blogged about registers: authoritative lists you can trust. To recap, a register is a canonical source of data, with a clearly-defined custodian.
I’ve spent the past few months as part of a team working within the Land Registry alpha. Part of your role as a GDS person within an exemplar is to help existing staff work in new ways and pick up …
One of the more interesting stories that came out of our work on Individual Electoral Registration (IER) was our adoption of Mustache, a logic-less templating language.
Last month we launched the new online electoral registration service. This is the digital part of the wider Individual Electoral Registration (IER) policy. Pete has already blogged about how we engaged with lawyers while developing the service. In this post …
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