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10th ODF Plugfest: keeping track of progress
In July this year, the UK government selected an open standard to use for all editable documents created by government - Open Document Format (ODF).
What we can learn from Korea
Why Korea? A few weeks ago I led a delegation from the British Government to engage closely with our Korean counterparts.
Guest post: D5 and connectivity
Michelle Thorp, Director, Digital Infrastructure in the Cabinet Office, tells us tells us why connectivity has been a key topic of discussion at the inaugural D5 Summit. The Digital 5 (D5) Summit, which brings together a group of some …
Guest post: Adopting open document format in the Home Office
In this first of two blog posts, Tariq Rashid, who is leading the work to adopt Open Document Format (ODF) in the Home Office, explains how he and his colleagues will make this happen and how it will improve choice …
PSN compliance - all change
Back in September, James Duncan, the CTO of the Public Services Network (PSN), discussed our aims to make things simpler and clearer for PSN customers.
Top 10 tips to exploratory testing
Here in the Central Architecture function for government, we often get asked how to approach various testing tasks and methodologies.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) membership for HM Government
We announced our commitment to Open Standards with the formation of the Open Standards Board eighteen months ago.
GDS hosting the 10th ODF Plugfest
We announced in July that we had selected an open standard for sharing or collaborating on government documents – the Open Document Format (ODF).
vCard and iCalendar are now government open standards
The Open Standards Board has adopted RFC 5545 (iCalendar) and RFC 6350 (vCard) as open standards for government.
How to get through spend controls (for policy makers)
I recently joined the controls team at Cabinet Office which gives me the chance to see what Departments are doing, and their approach to the Government's aim of Digital by Default.