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Measuring the climate impact of our digital services at GDS
Earlier this year, GDS formed a Sustainability Network to help our department reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We were inspired by the government’s commitment this year to reduce emissions to “net...
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Transforming GOV.UK: the future of digital public services
Jen Allum speaking at Sprint 19. GOV.UK marked its 7th birthday last month. We’re rightly proud of the work we’ve done on GOV.UK since its launch in 2012. We’ve taken nearly 2,000 government websites...
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Podcast: Mental wellbeing at GDS
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20200205163240/https://governmentdigitalservice.podbean.com/mf/play/tpwqpq/GDS_Podcast_Ep13_Mental_Health_Network_FINAL.mp3 At the Government Digital...
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Making GOV.UK more than a website
In the run-up to the general election, you may have seen some new kinds of results appearing in Google search. They look like this: These are a special kind of Google search result called a OneBox....
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GOV.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...
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Podcast: GDS in 2019
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20200205163240/https://governmentdigitalservice.podbean.com/mf/play/kcgh5i/GDS_Quiz_2019_Podcast_FINAL_v2.mp3 The final episode of the Government Digital...
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Accessibility: why you should get on board
I am the interim Head of Accessibility and Senior Accessibility Specialist at the Government Digital Service (GDS). This means I run the cross-government Introduction to Accessibility training. In...
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Participate in Services Week 2020
Government is working hard on making services work better for their users. Over the past few years, hundreds of services went through user-centred digital transformation and now meet our Service...
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Podcast: Accessibility in government
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20200205163240/https://governmentdigitalservice.podbean.com/mf/play/55sawy/Accessibility_Podcast_FINAL.mp3 Accessibility has always been part of the...
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We’re hiring a Head of Accessibility
At GDS our ambition is to make services as accessible and inclusive as possible, to ensure there are no barriers that might prevent people from interacting with government. Where we’ve been We’ve...
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