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This blog is now archived
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Guest post: What D5 is doing about open markets
...means that we now also need to consider cloud-first. Buying software is different to buying cloud services, as our current marketplace is not suitable to support both currently. Learning from...
Guest post: Improving the technology at DCLG
...available on Apple products, but we are now making it available for Android - re-affirming our commitment to creating a level playing field for open source platforms. Again, we have...
Keep on opening
The Open Standards Principles were published in 2012, they set out the Government’s policy on selecting and implementing open standards.
What we’re doing on open standards
We’ve been selecting open standards to help government to adapt to changing needs and technologies.
Freeing up unused IP addresses - an update
In February, I introduced our discovery work with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)
Guest post: The promise of computational thinking
Nine months ago, London hosted the first meeting of D5 - a group of the most digitally advanced countries in the world. At that meeting, the five founding members (Estonia,...
Network principles for government
In the work we do with network designers and end users across government the same issues keep cropping up.
Working with the Technology Leaders Network
Andy Beale talks about the latest meeting of the Technology Leaders Network (TLN). We introduced the Technology Leaders Network to you in November 2014. It’s the governance group for government technology and a vital decision making body for the technology …
Help us find the right open standards
...any open standards you think we should use. They are: How we publish vacancies online How we exchange property and place information – information about addresses How we exchange information...
Selecting standards for describing languages and countries
The Open Standards Board is a group of experts drawn from government and not-for-profit organisations as well as volunteers from academia and industry.