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This blog is now archived
This blog is no longer being updated. If you're interested in government technology, you can read about it on the GDS blog and the Technology at GDS blog.
Volunteers wanted for the Open Standards Board
In the Open Standards Principles we said that we’d set up an Open Standards Board to help us to decide which open standards to use in government IT. You can find out more about current Board members and the excellent …
Guest post: The technology challenge (and opportunity) in the Department for Work and Pensions.
In DWP IT we are working hard to make technology changes at all levels in the organisation.
Getting to grips with document formats
I’ve got one of those sorts of problems that is nice to have. One that shows me that there is energy and passion to do things right in government.
Central government architecture: an update
We announced the architecture function this year and have been busy ever since with discovery work.
Identity and Access Management - how to evolve
In the third in a series of posts, Jagdeep Bhambra examines how an enterprise can evolve its Identity and Access Management (IDAM). I hope that you will find this post useful when thinking about how you will put in place …
Public Services Network: a foundation for change
Since Andy Beale’s last post about management changes in the Public Services Network (PSN) team in July, we’ve been working hard to deliver the government’s high performance network.
Learning by doing at the Festival of Code
Siju Salami, a Digital and Technology fast streamer, recounts his recent experience of mentoring some young coders at the Young Rewired State Festival of Code. For one week in August, 750 coders and designers, aged 18 or younger, came together …
Guest post: moving towards a data confident government
In his third and final post of this series inspired by a visit to Silicon Valley in the U.S., Paul Maltby, Director of Open Data and Government Innovation in the Cabinet Office, envisions a data revolution and what that might …
Introducing the Digital and Technology fast stream
Over the past few months we have been taking a look at the Technology in Business fast stream with two goals in mind: to understand it in more detail by talking to participants on and around the scheme and to …
Guest post: a view from the coalface – the Government’s IT strategy in BIS
Julia Harwood, FLITE Programme Director and Chief Information Officer at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), tells us about some of the things she’s learned from working on a transformation programme.