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Guest post: The Department for Work & Pensions’ VME-R programme kick-off
Posted by:
Steve Winter, Enterprise Architect at DWP, Posted on:
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Categories:
Common technology services
...take a long time but we’ll be applying everything we've learned to a full programme of change that is starting now, called VME-R (Remediation). What we’re not doing now is...
Learning by sharing – a conversation with the Australian government
Liam Maxwell, HM Government Chief Technology Officer and Ben Terrett, Director of Design at GDS, recently travelled to Canberra at the invitation of the Australian Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull. Their mission? To brief members of the Australian Cabinet about …
Guest post: Simpler and better service means safer drivers
...And finally, we’re progressing our Personalised Registration online offer with a beta planned for the end of this year. This is a really important part of our business, and one...
A better approach
Posted by:
Dr. Jerry Fishenden, Posted on:
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Categories:
Technology Leaders, Technology Transformation
...policies often takes place online - from blogs and media sites, to social media from Twitter to Google+. It’s neither desirable nor sensible to impose artificial technical restrictions in our...
Identity and Access Management
...In today’s world, there is an increasing need to utilise the same set of credentials to access multiple systems / services / resources. Examples of this are using Google, Microsoft...
Guest post: making the Crown Prosecution Service fit for the 21st Century
Paul Staff, Acting CIO at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), tells us how technology will be dramatically changing the way Criminal Justice works. Criminal Justice is rapidly becoming a digital business and the Crown Prosecution Service is at the forefront …
Fixing Civil Service Technology Workshop in Manchester
Chris Parkinson, an Incapacity Benefit Reassessment Decision Maker and Digital Champion Site Lead at the Burnley Benefit Centre, took part in our second Fixing Civil Service Technology Workshop in Manchester...
Guest post: Government as a platform
In his last post, Paul Maltby, Director of Open Data and Government Innovation in the Cabinet Office, discussed platforms. Here, he expands on his theme… The notion of ‘government as a platform’ has been talked about for some years following an article by …
Guest post: Be the platform, not the product
...be used to understand the nature and behaviour of customers. (API stands for Application Programme Interface and is the convenient way that computers stream information to each other online.) Apigee...
Guest post: the way forward
...been a month or so since our eye-opening trip to San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Overall, it reinforced for me that we're now going about things in the right way....