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Our cross-government API event at the NHS on 25 June

Posted by: Amina Omar, GDS Technology Policy Advisor, Posted on: 3 June 2019 - Categories: Event
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) has partnered up with the NHS to hold its next API Community of Practice event in Leeds. As well as speakers from the NHS, we’ll have presentations speakers from the DWP, HMRC, and Network Rail, and an unconference session.

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10 things we learned from our API Community of Practice event

Posted by: Rosalie Marshall, GDS, Lead Technology Advisor, Posted on: 22 May 2019 - Categories: Event, Transformation

Find out about the Canadian government’s cross-government API Store, how the DVSA improved staff morale with mobile working, tips on delivering APIs as a product manager and more.

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Build your Docs career event: our recap

Posted by: Jonathan Glassman, GDS Technical writer, Posted on: 17 July 2018 - Categories: Chat, Jobs
Introduction speech at the Write the Docs event

Catch up on all the highlights from our Build your Docs career conference.

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Develop API best practice with the cross-government community

Posted by: Rosalie Marshall, Posted on: 4 May 2018 - Categories: Chat, Transformation
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We’ve been working with the cross-government community to set standards in APIs.

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Developing cross-government API data and technical standards

Posted by: Khidr Suleman, GDS Technical Writer, Posted on: 13 February 2018 - Categories: Transformation

We are pleased to launch the API data and technical standards, which is the culmination of fantastic cross-government collaboration, facilitated by GDS.

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Identifying the challenges of designing cross-government APIs

Posted by: Khidr Suleman, GDS Technical Writer, Posted on: 29 January 2018 - Categories: Transformation

Technical Writer, Khidr Suleman attended a cross-government API Standards event at the end of October. The event provided an opportunity to discuss how to promote common principles of API design to make them easy to implement across government. A total …

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API the Docs conference: 3 key takeaways

Posted by: Jonathan Glassman, GDS Technical writer, Posted on: 24 July 2017 - Categories: Tools
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Technical Writer on GaaP, Jonathan Glassman, recently attended the API The Docs conference, organised by our very own technical writer community at GDS and Write the Docs. Find out what he learned...

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Retiring the Business Support API

Posted by: Tim Blair, Posted on: 27 March 2017 - Categories: GOV.UK
Post-its detailing the different steps involved in removing the Business Support API

We’ve come to the decision that as of April 2017, the Business Support API will be deprecated. This post explains why we're doing this and the dates you need to know.

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Providing access to datasets through APIs

Posted by: Robert Rees, Posted on: 3 February 2017 - Categories: Chat, GaaP
The Register team taking part in a standup and the Register sign

In this blog post I’ll discuss our thoughts on providing access to datasets through APIs. My thoughts are based on experiences with the Registers team, who have been conducting user research into how people use data, and agree with the …

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An allow list approach for cloud APIs

Posted by: David Illsley, Posted on: 3 January 2017 - Categories: GaaP
Picture of a cloud with GOV.UK Notify and GOV.UK Pay written inside. There are 4 entry points to the cloud with one of them blocked with a cross.

07 August 2020 update: We’ve updated this post to remove references to ‘whitelisting’ and ‘whitelists’. GDS has updated its style guide to ban references to the racist terms ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’. We now use ‘allow list’ and ‘block list’ instead. …

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