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Downing St reopens its email function
Rejoice, bloggers! Downing Street has started the rollout of its (apparently?) much-missed function to send an email to the Prime Minister. There's been plenty of commentary on the function's...
View ArticleGov websites to use open source ‘whenever possible’
In the response to a pretty innocuous parliamentary question from Tom Watson, new Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude makes a statement which could, on the face of it, be of monumental significance...
View ArticleWebsites under £20k dodge Maude’s gateway
There's an intriguing mismatch between the answers to two PQs tabled by former Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson today. In one, he asks 'what criteria have been set to govern the creation of new...
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Lane Fox report published; does Cabinet Office share her revolutionary zeal?
Martha Lane Fox's review of Directgov has been published this morning - as an 11 page, 5.7MB graphic-based PDF file, making it impossible to search or select text. (Thanks to various colleagues on...
View ArticleCabinet Office finally confirms Alphagov transition to beta
If you've been following the whole Alphagov thing - and if you're reading this, we can probably assume you have - then today's Cabinet Office 'announcement' that the Single Government Domain project...
View ArticleCabinet Office approves only 3 new domains since election
In an answer (ahem) to a PQ from Tom Watson today, Francis Maude announces that only three requests for new .gov.uk domains have been granted since the new government took office in May 2010. These...
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GDS’s visions of the future
Master of ceremonies, Mike Bracken I must admit, I was a bit surprised to receive an invite to what was billed as the launch of the Government Digital Service - but was, more accurately, the...
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New CERT-UK website will be shortlived
Maude at Sprint 14. Pic: gdsteam on Flickr If Puffbox was still on active service, it would already have brought to your attention the news that: 'The number of government websites is increasing...
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