At GDS we write blog posts to talk about our work. We encourage everyone who works here to write them. It’s part of our drive to make things open. But not everyone feels comfortable writing blog posts. Or feels confident …
More years ago than any of us care to remember, I went to school with a bloke called Ben Rogers and through him, met his sister Lucy. Fast forward all those years, and Lucy is now Dr Lucy Rogers, one …
We made three films for Sprint 16, and one of them was this one that gives a broad overview of what the Government Data Programme is for. Writing the script and working out how to animate it took a long …
...to our content - with simple icons, standard colour palette and font supported by a full, visible URL (we do not use shorteners like bit.ly or owl.ly) and clear call...
...to our colleagues at Home Office. They were brilliant. They did the hard work to resolve the problem swiftly. We ensured the response supplied by Home Office was appropriate for...
In August 2015, the GDS blog reached 1 million hits since we transitioned the platform to GOV.UK. Now that we’ve reached this landmark, we thought we would share some tips on how we blog on the government blogging platform. You can read more about how blogging’s been working for us in our recent post.
It’s probably fair to say that citizens generally want government to be reliable and authoritative. We all have expectations, and would like those met, rather than be surprised by a sudden change of direction. If government can provide ongoing explanations …