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Shaping a new digital centre of government: how we’re listening

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Shaping a new digital centre of government: how we’re listening

Back in July it was announced that the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) would expand to include the Government Digital Service (GDS), the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) and the Incubator for AI (i.AI), uniting efforts in the digital transformation of public services under one department. Learn more about how the new digital centre is being shaped in the latest Digital People blog.

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Being on the Digital, Data and Technology Fast Stream

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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.

How digital, data and technology communities of practice can benefit you and your organisation

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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.

Companies House: building a more rewarding workplace for Digital, Data and Technology Professionals

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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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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

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Digital data and technology, Diversity and Inclusion
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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.

How we’re developing the product leaders of the future

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As heads of product in government, we believe that product management is best ‘learnt by doing’.

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