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Introducing the GOV.UK cloud guide

Posted by: Tom March, GDS Lead Technology Advisor and Rhiannon Lawson, GDS, Head of Technology Policy, Posted on: 31 March 2020 - Categories: News, Transformation
Signpost with cloud guide

GDS is putting all of its cloud policy, guidance and case studies in one place to make it easier for public sector organisations to find the information and use the cloud.

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Signposting technology security

Posted by: Claire Ashworth, Technical Writer, CDDO and Lewis Dunne, Senior Policy Advisor, CDDO, Posted on: 24 March 2020 - Categories: Tools, Transformation
A screenshot of the updated Technology Code of Practice point on security

We’ve updated our security guidance in the Technology Code of Practice so it helps teams build security into their projects from the start.

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At the NHS, we view APIs as services

Posted by: Tony Heap, Product Owner, API Management, NHS Digital, Posted on: 6 March 2020 - Categories: Event, Open Standards, Tools
A screenshot of the UK government API catalogue

UPDATED: In this guest post, NHS Digital’s Tony Heap talks about treating APIs as services and what this will mean for service teams. We're also hosting an online workshop to discuss delivering APIs to meet users needs.

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Join us for a workshop introducing our guidance on managing costs in the cloud

Posted by: Rhiannon Lawson, GDS, Head of Technology Policy and Tom March, GDS Lead Technology Advisor, Posted on: 10 February 2020 - Categories: Event, Transformation
A group of people sitting at a table during an event

We’ve published new cloud guidance and we’re running a cross-government workshop in April to talk about all of our recent cloud work.

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Upgrading GOV.UK search to help users find micropigs and important information faster

Posted by: Michael Stewart Walker, GDS Senior Developer, Posted on: 10 January 2020 - Categories: GOV.UK

Whether you’re searching for micropigs or income tax, we've upgraded the Elasticsearch database that powers GOV.UK search to make it easier to find information.

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Introducing our cloud lock-in guidance and case study

Posted by: Tom March, GDS Lead Technology Advisor and James O’Neill, GDS Senior Technology Policy Advisor, Posted on: 17 December 2019 - Categories: News, Transformation

The Government Digital Service has published the first part of our new suite of cloud guidance, covering provider lock-in. We’ve also published a case study on cost optimisation at the Home Office.

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Cloud First is here to stay

Posted by: Rhiannon Lawson, GDS, Head of Technology Policy and Tom March, GDS Lead Technology Advisor, Posted on: 31 October 2019 - Categories: News, Transformation
Cloud First policy

GDS has completed a cross-government review of the Cloud First policy. The policy is not being revised, reissued or renamed. Instead, we’re looking at ways to better meet users' needs around cloud, predominantly by providing more detailed guidance and support.

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Sharing knowledge at the GDS chatbot and webchat event

Posted by: Amina Omar, GDS Technology Policy Advisor, Posted on: 24 October 2019 - Categories: Event, GOV.UK, Tools
Attendees listen to a presentation at the GDS chatbot event

Over 30 people from across government attended Government Digital Service’s chatbot and webchat event to discuss user journeys, development and service design, test services and network.

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Relaunching the .gov.uk domain name application process

Posted by: Khidr Suleman, GDS Technical Writer, Posted on: 7 October 2019 - Categories: GOV.UK, News, Transformation
Apply for a .gov.uk domain name on smartphone browser

The .gov.uk domain name application guidance is the first piece of government technology content to use the new step-by-step pattern. Here’s how we made it happen and the benefits of displaying the content in this way for users.

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The vision for the Future Networks for Government (FN4G) programme

Posted by: Mark Smith, GDS Head of PSN and Cyber Compliance, Posted on: 9 September 2019 - Categories: News, Transformation
FN4G phase 1 and phase 2 description

The Future Networks for Government (FN4G) programme started in 2018 to look at the role of the Public Services Network (PSN). Here’s an update of what we’ve done so far and what we expect to achieve by March 2020.

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