Government Digital Service
description: Unit of the UK government charged with digital government services
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Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words
is investigating the use of the blockchain in maintaining numerous records, especially for ensuring their integrity. Paul Downey, a technical architect with the U.K. Government Digital Service, noted that the perfect register “should be able to prove the data hasn’t been tampered with” and should store a history of the changes
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, 24, 283, 288–89, 307 distributed power, 33–35, 273 in financial services, 73–79 new framework for blockchain, 298–307 regulations vs., 296–97 Government Digital Service, U.K., 205 Governments, 9, 13, 23, 197–225 alternative models of politics and justice, 218–21 Big Brother, 244, 274–75 blockchain voting, 215
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
by Tim O'Reilly · 9 Oct 2017 · 561pp · 157,589 words
team in San Francisco was first exploring the problems with SNAP, Jen and I took a trip to London to visit the United Kingdom’s Government Digital Service. While we were there, Jen got a call from Todd Park, at the time the CTO of the United States and a special assistant to
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an SRE. The unit already had in its DNA a deep commitment to user-centered service design, through its initial inspiration by the UK’s Government Digital Service and the Code for America team working on food stamps in California. But Site Reliability Engineering is at its core the practice of “debugging” the
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Valley entrepreneur who couldn’t answer that question would be laughed out of the room. Tom Loosemore, the former chief operating officer of the UK Government Digital Service, speaking at the 2015 Code for America Summit, noted that the typical government regulatory framework represents “500 pages of untested assumptions.” Government technology procurement processes
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/10/25/oba macares-problems-go-much-deeper-than-the-web-site/. 144 “the best startup in Europe we can’t invest in”: Saul Klein, “Government Digital Service: The Best Startup in Europe We Can’t Invest In,” Guardian, November 25, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/15/govern ment-digital
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-service-best-startup-europe-invest. 145 GDS Design Principles: “GDS Design Principles,” UK Government Digital Service, retrieved March 31, 2017, http://www.gov.uk/design-principles. 145 “Start with needs”: After Mike Bracken left the GDS, the first principle was rewritten
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applications, 143 NSF Digital Library Program, 132 R&D grants, 132 requirements for, 135–37 “Government Data and the Invisible Hand” (Robinson, et. al), 130 Government Digital Service, United Kingdom (UK GDS), 144–45, 168–69 GPL (GNU Public License), 25 GPS, 83–84, 131, 176–77 Gray, Mary, 166 “greed is good
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sensor-based data collection, 33, 34–35, 41 taxi companies’ response to, 61–62 trip pricing algorithms, 60, 259–62 Udell, John, 26 UK GDS (Government Digital Service, United Kingdom), 144–45, 168–69 Unfinished Business (Slaughter), 309 unicorns, xi, xii–xviii. See also AI United States, xxiii, xxv, 199–201, 255, 266
This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World: A Practitioners' Handbook
by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence and Jakob Schneider · 12 Jan 2018 · 704pp · 182,312 words
solutions, problem solving) We also used this session to further develop a set of user needs for each persona based on the guidelines from the Government Digital Service: 55 As a … [who is the user?] I need to … [what does the user want to do?] So that … [why does the user want to
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-being, and also at self-management and how processes like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) could be scaled. The project was undertaken with sponsorship by the Government Digital Service (GDS) and focused on executing a discovery phase, outlined in the GDS Service Manual. 57 During this phase, our focus was on identifying opportunities and
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my own abilities, because I have low self-esteem.” The system we were designing for was more complex than one or two products of the Government Digital Service. Our results could end up being used in a variety of contexts, from suggesting content and tools housed on NHS Choices, to creating principles to
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.theguardian.com. 56 RAND Europe. (2014). “Psychological Wellbeing and Work: Improving Service Provision and Outcomes.” Retrieved March 26, 2016, from https://www.gov.uk. 57 Government Digital Service (n.d.). “Service Manual” at https://www.gov.uk/service-manual. 58 Throughout the project, Snook held workshops with the funding partners (Department of Health
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, Department for Work and Pensions, and Government Digital Services) to present findings and identify priorities for research and development. Chapter 7. Prototyping Explore, challenge, and evolve your ideas in reality. Expert comments _______________________________ Alexander Osterwalder
Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery
by Andrew Greenway,Ben Terrett,Mike Bracken,Tom Loosemore · 18 Jun 2018
time of writing but then the communications minister. It referred to his recent establishment of the Digital Transformation Office, Australia’s equivalent of Britain’s Government Digital Service (GDS), and explicitly modelled on what we had created in the UK. This followed President Obama’s creation of a US Digital Service, copied from
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contractors who had pocketed seven-figure sums, swirled around the doomed borders programme. In response to this litany of IT troubles, the UK launched the Government Digital Service in 2011. The GDS was a new institution made responsible for the digital transformation of government, designing public services for the internet era. It snipped
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here – it’s just not evenly distributed.’ The prize In 2011, the UK set up a small team in the centre of government called the Government Digital Service (GDS), with the responsibility for digitally transforming public services. The UK government was spending at least £16 billion a year on IT. Four-fifths of
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the standard in more detail – in 2013, about two years into the team’s journey. The objective of the standard was ultimately to make all government digital services so good that people would prefer to carry out the task online. Every new service launching on GOV.UK had to pass the standard. The
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in collaboration with several multilateral organisations, including the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank. Andrew Greenway worked in five government departments, including the Government Digital Service, where he led the team that delivered the UK’s digital service standard. He also led a government review into applications of the Internet of
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Minister in 2014. He now writes for several UK and international publications on government and institutional reform. Ben Terrett was Director of Design at the Government Digital Service, where he led the multidisciplinary design team for GOV.UK which won the Design of the Year award in 2013. Before working in government, Ben
Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest · 17 Oct 2014 · 292pp · 85,151 words
all with minimal effort. Successful implementation of ExO strategies within a governmental organization can also be found in the UK. Mike Bracken, head of the Government Digital Service, runs his department as if it were an ExO. Constant experimentation with users, fast iterations, citizen-centered design and the use of GitHub repositories have
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
by Jennifer Pahlka · 12 Jun 2023 · 288pp · 96,204 words
on a glide path. There was a precedent for an office of tech nerds within central government. In 2011, the United Kingdom had established the Government Digital Service (GDS), whose director of digital had extraordinary authority for technology spending and strategy across ministerial departments and reported directly to the minister for the Cabinet
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teams for common use was what they did. But a unit at GSA wouldn’t be able to do some of the things that the Government Digital Service did across the pond, especially if agencies weren’t asking for a new approach. Would a GSA unit have the authority and flexibility to help
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the various vendors, healthcare.gov already had thousands of staff. How could a few dozen more make any difference? As Mike Bracken, who ran the Government Digital Service in the UK, said in an interview a few weeks after the launch, “Government constructs its self-image in terms of size. It thinks of
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could see that a White House tech team taking the right approach worked. We named the unit the US Digital Service, in homage to the Government Digital Service in the UK. It would not work quite the way the GDS had been designed—legally, the White House can’t tell an agency which
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out to be Francis Maude, the minister for the Cabinet Office, and Mike Bracken, who was standing up what would soon become the UK’s Government Digital Service. They were both much less intimidating than I had feared. I had no way of knowing then that two years later I would go to
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to the answers. This seemed highly unusual. A few months later, the GDS published its first piece of doctrine, a set of design principles for government digital services. I clicked on the link with interest, wondering what those lovely British people had been up to. The first principle read “Start with needs.” But
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in through GetCalFresh. And California’s SNAP participation rate has gone up. It’s not hard to understand what the team building the UK’s Government Digital Service meant by government needs. The official specifications for government software—compulsory ESBs that turn a simple software component into a Rube Goldberg contraption, mandated versions
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would become the USDS, essentially a set of principles by which it would operate. I’d been inspired by the precepts of the UK’s Government Digital Services, which were clear, concise, and bold, and I wanted the USDS’s to have those same qualities. The first draft was three pages, and I
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-speak nor legalese. It focuses on people—understanding their needs and testing our assumptions about them. Tom Loosemore, one of the founding members of the Government Digital Service in the UK, worked with a policymaker who’d compiled mountains of academic research and analysis in advance of a revision of a major social
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, and authentication mechanism that works for all of these as well as other government websites.14 This kind of infrastructure can make all manner of government digital services both easier to implement and easier to use. Leadership is infrastructure too, and as of 2022 we couldn’t ask for better technology leadership at
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-federal-drinking-water-funding. 12. “Justice40: A Whole of Government Initiative,” The White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/environmentaljustice/justice40/. 13. See the UK’s Government Digital Service’s design principle no. 4: “Do the hard work to make it simple,” https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles#do-the-hard-work
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translation service permissions Treasury Department Truman, Harry Trump, Donald Twitter UDP (multicast user datagram protocol) UIOnline Ukraine unemployment insurance (UI) United Kingdom (UK) Cabinet Office Government Digital Service (GDS) University of California (UC) Berkeley University of Minnesota US Air Force cockpit control design USAJobs website US Army US Congress 116th (2019–20) 117th
Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From Money That We Understand to Money That Understands Us (Perspectives)
by David Birch · 14 Jun 2017 · 275pp · 84,980 words
to the UK’s Identity Assurance Scheme. Anyone entering the field of digital identity should take this book with them.’ — David Rennie, Identity Assurance Programme, Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office This book argues that identity and money are both changing profoundly. Because of technological change the two trends are converging so that all
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words
primarily outside the confines of for-profit owned by shareholders; instead, it should be developed within worker co-ops, government agencies like the UK’s Government Digital Service, publicly-funded research labs, non-profits, and grant-supported open source projects. The resulting products should be released under an open license where possible. For
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
by Sara Wachter-Boettcher · 9 Oct 2017 · 223pp · 60,909 words
rich history of barons and lords and whatnots has made its way into online databases, creating extra opportunities to confuse or misrepresent users. Thankfully, the Government Digital Service, a department launched a few years back to modernize British government websites and make them more accessible to all residents, has developed a standard guideline
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession With Economic Efficiency
by Roger L. Martin · 28 Sep 2020 · 600pp · 72,502 words
together what turned out to be the massively successful GOV.UK website service that went live in 2012, the cabinet office created a unit called government digital services (GDS). The new unit was led by Michael Bracken and Tom Loosemore, whose first task was to convince the various government departments and agencies, which
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golden mean, 183 Gomez, Selena, 65 Good Jobs Institute, 126 Good Jobs Strategy, The (Ton), 124–125 Google, 54, 134, 153, 154 Google Android, 131 government digital services (GDS), 147–149, 163 government policies, 14–15 See also public policy GOV.UK website, 147–149, 163 Graham, John, 155 Great Depression, 4–7