Assembling architects to improve local public services
Architects came together for our first ‘Architects Assemble’, to create firmer foundations for technology and data, and ultimately better outcomes for communities.
Architects came together for our first ‘Architects Assemble’, to create firmer foundations for technology and data, and ultimately better outcomes for communities.
Scaling open source in local government isn’t a technology problem, it’s a confidence one. Work with us to start to tackle it.
There could be huge benefits to councils in adopting a common technical architecture, and to achieve this the digital centre has published a shared model.
GDS Local’s sourcing the stack initiative is part of our commitment to co-create a vision for local government technology. We’ve been looking closely at how councils describe their technology to gain a better understanding of technical architecture across local government, and one of our findings …
The blueprint is a bold vision for the public sector, and delivering it for councils starts by understanding the ingredients of a local government technology stack.
This is for everyone: documenting how we're building, assembling and running digital and technology projects across the UK government. Find out more.
Want to connect with colleagues across government’s technology professions
Our new Technology Community mailbox is a single point of contact for engineers, architects, IT operations professionals and their leaders across government. You can use it to find out more about professional communities, standards and tools, learn how to get involved, or connect with the team about cross-government technology activity.
📩 tech.community@dsit.gov.uk
We’re looking forward to hearing from you and building stronger connections across the technology profession.

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