Tuesday 5 April 2016

Confidence limits

4 April 2014 (600,000):
Identity assurance, procurement 2

Janet Hughes and David Rennie, 4 April 2014 — Industry and market engagement

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Identity providers are paid each time a user registers with them. The initial contracts cover the first 600,000 registrations. We’re expecting to use all of these this year ...

3 April 2016 (478,000):

Confidence limits

4 April 2014 (600,000):
Identity assurance, procurement 2

Janet Hughes and David Rennie, 4 April 2014 — Industry and market engagement

...

Identity providers are paid each time a user registers with them. The initial contracts cover the first 600,000 registrations. We’re expecting to use all of these this year ...

3 April 2016 (478,000):

Safe spaces

An open letter to our new Advisory Board

Stephen Foreshew-Cain, 31 March 2016 — GDS team

Dear Advisory Board members,

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We've asked you to help us because you believe in the same things that we believe ...

Safe spaces

An open letter to our new Advisory Board

Stephen Foreshew-Cain, 31 March 2016 — GDS team

Dear Advisory Board members,

...

We've asked you to help us because you believe in the same things that we believe ...

Sunday 3 April 2016

Lotus Notes redux

So what will GOV.UK Notify do?

Government receives millions of calls every year, from people anxious to find out where their thing is at. People have to spend time on hold, and running call centres costs a lot of money.

GOV.UK Notify is going to make it easy to keep people informed, by allowing service teams across government to send text messages, emails or letters to their users, before they get anxious enough to call.
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes#History from 1989 with roots going back to 1973.

Lotus Notes redux

So what will GOV.UK Notify do?

Government receives millions of calls every year, from people anxious to find out where their thing is at. People have to spend time on hold, and running call centres costs a lot of money.

GOV.UK Notify is going to make it easy to keep people informed, by allowing service teams across government to send text messages, emails or letters to their users, before they get anxious enough to call.
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes#History from 1989 with roots going back to 1973.

Friday 1 April 2016

Faster horses

http://www.cio.co.uk/blogs/political-debate/digital-public-services-20-years-of-faster-horses-3636630/:
Those who optimistically believe they are breaking new ground by improving the online experience are often merely tracing footprints on a path already much trodden, reinventing and rediscovering anew the same things – from a common website to cross-government platforms. The result has been several generations of faster horses.

Faster horses

http://www.cio.co.uk/blogs/political-debate/digital-public-services-20-years-of-faster-horses-3636630/:
Those who optimistically believe they are breaking new ground by improving the online experience are often merely tracing footprints on a path already much trodden, reinventing and rediscovering anew the same things – from a common website to cross-government platforms. The result has been several generations of faster horses.

No-one's ever done payments before

Building GOV.UK Pay

Ian Maddison, 31 March 2016 — GOV.UK Pay

We previously introduced GOV.UK Pay, a new Government as a Platform product, to make payments more convenient and efficient. We’ve spent 6 months building our beta, and very soon we’ll be taking our first real payments with our first partner services. We wanted to give you an update on our public API, how we're making integration straightforward, security and our technical choices.

As a greenfield project ...

No-one's ever done payments before

Building GOV.UK Pay

Ian Maddison, 31 March 2016 — GOV.UK Pay

We previously introduced GOV.UK Pay, a new Government as a Platform product, to make payments more convenient and efficient. We’ve spent 6 months building our beta, and very soon we’ll be taking our first real payments with our first partner services. We wanted to give you an update on our public API, how we're making integration straightforward, security and our technical choices.

As a greenfield project ...