Ambitious and future-thinking: advising on digital government
Ambitious and future-thinking: advising on digital government
Baroness Martha Lane Fox discusses her role in shaping the government’s new digital centre.
Want to be a part of building and transforming the government of tomorrow? Meet us at Silicon Milkroundabout
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Daniel Sintim, Diversity, Inclusion and Talent Specialist, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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People and Skills, Recruitment
On 23 and 24 November, our digital, data and technology (DDaT) teams from across government will once again return to Europe’s largest tech job fair to engage and interact with thousands of candidates. Register to attend and visit us at our stand 106/107.
Making the Digital, Data and Technology Capability Framework more user friendly
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Digital, Data and Technology Profession team, Posted on:
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Digital data and technology
We have reviewed the Framework, so we could understand the problems and plan ways to address them. Read more about what we learned and what actions we are taking to fix it.
Being on the Digital, Data and Technology Fast Stream
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Jenny Bradley, Applications Architect, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Vanessa Sexton, Enterprise Architect, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Posted on:
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Graduate schemes and Fast Stream, People and Skills
In this blog post you can read 2 different perspectives on the scheme. Both Fast Streamers are in their third year and work at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), but one joined after nearly 30 years in the Civil Service and one joined straight from university.
Product Managers need to see the big picture
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Nasreen Nazir, Department for Education, Posted on:
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People and Skills, Product Management
Being a product manager involves working with teams to define a problem, what the solution is, and how the product is going to deliver that solution. Building consensus around a vision makes it much more powerful.
What it’s like being a technical writer at GDS
Technical writers are becoming increasingly important across government. From planning content, discussing Markdown to publishing docs as code, here’s an insight into what they do.
How digital, data and technology communities of practice can benefit you and your organisation
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James Pirot, Capability Manager for the Digital, Data and Technology Profession at the Government Digital Service (GDS), Posted on:
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Capabilities, Communities of practice
Cross-government communities of practice are growing across the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Profession. Find out about how the groups support their members, help career progression and increase DDaT capability across organisations.
Let’s get digital: specialist interns at GDS
Over the summer, the Government Digital Service (GDS) welcomed 2 interns from the Government Communication Service (GCS) internship programme, and 2 interns from the Government Economic Service (GES) programme.
Here’s what they’ve been up to as part of their internships.
Companies House: building a more rewarding workplace for Digital, Data and Technology Professionals
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Laura Boardman, Senior HR Business Partner (Digital), Companies House, Posted on:
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Capabilities, People and Skills
Companies House has been working to make sure that all their employees have rich and rewarding work lives. This has included implementing the Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework.
What the first Emerging Technology Development Programme graduates learned
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Tim Clack, GDS Academy Facilitator, Posted on:
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Apprenticeships and internships, Artificial Intelligence, Women in Tech
Students have graduated from GDS Academy's first Emerging Technology Development Programme. In this post, civil servants who took the course tell us what they learned, and the academics who taught them talk about their experience of the programme.
How we use data to make the Digital, Data and Technology Profession more diverse
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Alex Bartlett, Head of Workforce Insights and Analytics, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital data and technology, Diversity and Inclusion
Making better use of data can help us improve the diversity of our workforce. We’re asking government departments to give us anonymous data - particularly on gender, pay, ethnicity and age - so we can identify patterns and trends.
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