...writing code. It involves analysing the specific problem I’m trying to solve, making sense of the code that’s already there, discussing different technical solutions with colleagues, running tests and reviewing...
...released open-source code on which our own code depends. To benefit from community contributions, encourage reuse across government, and to work transparently in the public interest, we also publish our...
...Computing Platform. We code in the open by default. All software we release to the public is under Open Government Licence or equivalent. Our developers work in multidisciplinary agile teams...
...DIT marketing, and then explored how data moved between them. We discovered that: consent was captured inconsistently across different services, there were long and complicated privacy notices and slow, manual...
Jamie Laing In an era where technology can redefine how we work, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is embracing generative AI to enhance our operations to better serve...
...from the department. Great.gov.uk is helping more businesses every year, with a 16% increase in users between 2021 and 2022, and a 30% increase between 2022 and 2023. In Q4...
...or we weren’t sure whether their laptop needed to be replaced. Things which we couldn’t fix using code, we needed users to tell us. This meant that we couldn’t simply...
...the team built and prototyped an Alpha of what would become Data Hub. Now in Public Beta, the service has over 2,000 monthly users, capturing over 1,000 interactions daily and...
Introduction Annie Lewis There is growing demand in government for deeper, more strategic research. Policy colleagues and digital delivery teams want to better understand the people (and in the Department...
...with accessibility in mind from the outset. We were lucky that DBT had already accepted it should meet the Technology Code of Practice and Service Standard for all services, regardless...
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