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The digital revolution is unstoppable, inevitable - and bigger than Brexit
- Editor in chief 29 Mar 2017 -
Gov.uk Verify ID providers eye the prize of HMRC’s digital users – but what happens without them?
- Editor in chief 21 Feb 2017 -
HMRC ID vs Gov.uk Verify – what’s the difference, and why it matters
- Editor in chief 15 Feb 2017
Let’s start with the disclosure. I voted for the UK to remain in the European Union (EU). My reasoning at the time was that the EU is an over-bureaucratic, dysfunctional organisation that ought to ...
In all the recent talk about whether HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is truly committed to the Cabinet Office’s Gov.uk Verify service, there’s been less said about the commitment of the external ...
The long-term row between HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Government Digital Service (GDS) over online identity assurance broke into the open this week. HMRC published a blog post that ...
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GDS, HMRC and Verify: so much for cross-government digital collaboration
- Editor in chief 14 Feb 2017 -
Government digital strategy ticks the boxes - but real transformation needs more radical ambition
- Editor in chief 10 Feb 2017 -
How the technology sector helped create President Trump
- Editor in chief 10 Nov 2016 -
The clampdown on IT contractors in Whitehall is another risk for digital government progress
- Editor in chief 31 Oct 2016 -
GDS under Kevin Cunnington (so far) - different, and yet the same
- Editor in chief 24 Oct 2016 -
GDS: Will the strategy still be delivery?
- Editor in chief 13 Oct 2016 -
Even GDS creator Francis Maude is worried about future of GDS
- Editor in chief 05 Oct 2016
Less than a week after Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer announced the new government transformation strategy, its central premise is already in question after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) ...
The long wait for the new government digital strategy may have caused frustration in some places, but clearly within the Cabinet Office the extensive delays have brought expectations to a peak of ...
It’s probably fair to say that the world doesn’t need another journalist trying to explain why Donald Trump won the US presidency right now. Nonetheless, I think that we in the technology sector ...
IT contractors working in government are under pressure like never before over their tax status, and many people in Whitehall IT fear that a clampdown on the use of temporary staff could lead to a ...
Computer Weekly’s first opportunity to meet with Kevin Cunnington, the new director general of the Government Digital Service (GDS) answered a lot of questions – but raised plenty too. It’s ...
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is an uncertain place at the moment – or so the rumour mill says. The team are carrying on with their pre-existing strategy – one that was written last year to ...
Followers of the ups and downs of the Government Digital Service (GDS) will be aware of the question marks surrounding the future of the organisation and the Whitehall in-fighting over its role. ...
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The all-new GDS under Kevin Cunnington starts here
- Editor in chief 15 Sep 2016 -
The grubby day-to-day frustrations of digital change in Whitehall
- Editor in chief 09 Sep 2016 -
How to break up GDS without breaking up GDS
- Editor in chief 23 Aug 2016 -
The only certainty of Brexit is uncertainty
- Managing Editor 15 Aug 2016 -
No matter what happens next, GDS's long-term future is not assured
- Editor in chief 29 Jul 2016
So, the first phase of changing the Government Digital Service (GDS) is underway, and it’s clear there is a lot more to come. The Cabinet Office pitched the latest news as minister Ben Gummer’s ...
Change is hard. Few business or IT leaders would disagree with such a statement. But learning the lessons from change should be the easy and obvious outcome. Failing to learn the lessons from ...
The Cabinet Office and its latest recruit – new Government Digital Service (GDS) chief Kevin Cunnington – are adamant that GDS will not be broken up. Cunnington told us so in his first blog post of ...
The reality of what Brexit means is starting to sink in: no one knows for certain what will happen. Six weeks after the UK voted to leave the EU, the weak pound is already causing IT costs to rise ...
No matter what happens next for the Government Digital Service (GDS), you can assume three things will be true: 1 - The Cabinet Office will make an announcement full of praise for GDS and express ...