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How rewriting text messages can help services to save money

Karl Chillmaid - Senior Content Designer for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, 20 July 2022 - Digital Service Platforms, GOV.UK Notify, Transformation

GOV.UK Notify helped Leicester City Council to reduce the cost of the messages it sends. All it took was a little content design.

Building an inclusive culture at the Government Digital Service

Tom Read - Chief Executive Officer, Government Digital Service, 14 July 2022 - GDS team, People and skills

Making GDS a representative, inclusive place is one of our priorities. Our CEO shares why this matters, what our data show and where we'll focus our efforts.

Why we’ve decided to decommission GOV.UK PaaS (Platform as a Service)

Tom Read - Chief Executive Officer, Government Digital Service and Clara Barnett - Deputy Director of Digital Service Platforms, Government Digital Service, 12 July 2022 - Digital Service Platforms

Read about why we have decided to decommission GOV.UK PaaS and what we are doing next.

How GOV.UK Pay is making invoicing easier

Miriam Raines - former Product Manager for GOV.UK Pay, Government Digital Service, 7 July 2022 - GOV.UK Pay

Learn about what the GOV.UK Pay team have been doing to improve the functionality of the website to make invoicing easier.

Building digital foundations globally with service standards

Tony Richards - Product Manager, Government Digital Service, Sarah Crandall - Delivery Manager, Government Digital Service and Jude Hanan - Principal Digital Advisor, Government Digital Service, 21 June 2022 - Digital strategy, People and skills, Service design, Transformation

At GDS, we use the Service Standard to create user-centred services. Our Advisory International team helps other countries to create their own service standards.

How we are improving inclusion for digital identity in government

Ben Andrews - Senior Product Manager, Government Digital Service, 16 June 2022 - GOV.UK One Login, Service design

Tackling inclusion barriers is a high priority for the One Login for Government programme. Here’s how the team is approaching it.

Climbing Kilimanjaro, GDS team’s charity work makes a difference

Usmaan Dar - former Programme Delivery Officer for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service, 13 June 2022 - People and skills

Usmaan Dar is raising money for a charity that works in Africa to provide clean water: like all of GDS keen to make a difference.

A day in the life of a GDS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Jonathan Harden - Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Government Digital Service, 10 June 2022 - People and skills

Curious about how our Site Reliability Engineers do their job? Jonathan Harden shares what his typical work routine looks like, and what benefits the role has.

The GDS Fast-a-thon: how our Muslim community shared Ramadan

Iqbal Ahmed - Senior Frontend Developer, Government Digital Service, 8 June 2022 - GDS team, People and skills

The Muslim Community at GDS hosted its third annual Ramadan Fast-a-thon, inviting colleagues of all backgrounds to take part in a fast. Find out how it went.

GDS Advisory meets with suppliers in Manchester hub

Lucy Taylor, GDS Advisory Support Officer, 24 May 2022 - Digital, Data and Technology

Government Digital Service Advisory held an event with their commercial suppliers on 11 May at the GDS offices in Manchester. Working together with suppliers, they discussed innovative ways of improving processes and management tools.

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