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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). I blogged in November about...
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
...understand how we make best use of this significant national asset. Through this exercise, I found that we have a real opportunity to buy more efficiently and we can now...
Guest post: Adopting open document format in the Home Office
...Principles for adopting ODF The principles we’ve defined are: We must challenge ourselves to meet user needs more digitally, avoid using documents wherever possible and move information online. Our broader...
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. One of the areas where...
Top 10 tips to exploratory testing
...work for their users. Exploratory testing is often misunderstood as an approach but there a number of pointers you can follow to ensure you’re on the right track. Here are...
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) membership for HM Government
...aspect of how we build technology. We have ratified many standards and are looking for opportunities to build on other standards in the software we build and buy. As open...
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.