Government Digital Strategy, published in November 2012. You may have read in earlier posts that the strategy set out 14 actions for departments to respond to. It was followed up in December 2012 by departmental digital strategies, where each department set out their own detailed plans and commitments on how they would transform and improve their services to meet user needs better and achieve savings. An ambitious agenda. So...
Republished from GDS blog, by benterrett on 28/03/2013 The Design Museum’s annual ‘Designs of the Year’ awards exhibition launched last week. As usual it’s...
Many more services make their transition to GOV.UK, including content with an international flavour in the form of the new Worldwide section. The policy content has...
(Click the above screen to watch the video) TECHCITYINSIDER100: The Government Digital Service is sweeping reform through the state’s digital output, after being told...
Wednesday 17 October 2012Author: Michael Cross [original post here] From this morning, every visitor to the www.direct.gov.uk and www.businesslink.gov.uk has been directed to www.gov.uk....
In 2011, early in my current role, I discussed with the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, the strategy I recommended we adopt for all things digital. The strategy was to be disarmingly simple: to deliver. Often, iteratively and repetitively. Here’s my take on why delivery is such an attractive digital strategy in Whitehall. Ministers are inundated with policy directives and advice, most of it...
Introduction
I am the Executive Director of Digital in the Cabinet Office, which sits at the centre of Government and has the overarching purpose of making Government work better. I joined in July 2011, and spent the first several months in Government creating the Government Digital Service (GDS). The GDS includes several parts of the Government’s digital estate: DirectGov, BusinessLink, Innovations, Digital Policy, the beta of GOV.UK and Digital Engagement. In addition, the GDS is developing the wider Government digital strategy, leading on developing transactional improvements and creating a performance framework for all Government services online.
Prior to joining the Cabinet Office, I worked as the Director of Digital Development at Guardian News & Media.