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Government Digital Service

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is a unit of the UK Cabinet Office responsible for transforming government digital services to be simpler, clearer, and faster for users. It leads digital transformation and sets standards for government technology and service delivery.

Communication Overview

Total releases

Number of press releases published by this department during the last 12 months, based on publicly available announcements.
1

Avg per month

Average number of press releases published per calendar month over the last 12 months. This smooths short-term fluctuations in publishing activity.
0.1

Avg word count

Average length of published press releases, measured in words. Calculated only for months where content was published.
678

Avg readability

Average Flesch Reading Ease score across all published press releases. Higher values indicate plainer English. Scores are indicative only and vary by subject matter.
-61

Friday PM releases

Percentage of press releases published after 3pm on Fridays, relative to the department’s total output during the period.
0%

Single-release items

Estimated proportion of announcements published once, without a closely related follow-up release during the same period. This is based on similarity of titles and timing.
100%
Metrics are descriptive only and indicate publication patterns rather than intent or impact.

Releases per month

Based on publicly published press releases (last 12 months)

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Role specification for external panel members of the GDS Responsible AI Advisory Panel

Role specification for external panel members of the GDS Responsible AI Advisory Panel

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

The Government Digital Service (GDS) Responsible AI Advisory Panel is seeking applicants for external panel members....

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UK and Japan strengthen cooperation in the area of digital government

UK and Japan strengthen cooperation in the area of digital government

Monday, 31 October 2022

On Monday 31 October 2022, the UK and Japan signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to deepen ties on digital government transformation....

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Formal declaration of the Memorandum of Understanding

Formal declaration of the Memorandum of Understanding

Monday, 04 July 2022

The United Kingdom and Singapore are pleased to announce the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that continues to build on the existin...

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Government Digital Service to improve GOV.UK with new measurement approach

Government Digital Service to improve GOV.UK with new measurement approach

Wednesday, 16 June 2021

The Government Digital Service (GDS) will today introduce ‘Real User Monitoring’ (RUM) on GOV.UK to improve the experience of the 335 million annual ...

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Global Accessibility Awareness Day: Minister calls on the public sector to ensure digital services are accessible

Global Accessibility Awareness Day: Minister calls on the public sector to ensure digital services are accessible

Thursday, 21 May 2020

The Government Digital Service marks the ninth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day with a series of expert-led webinars and resources....

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Round 3 GovTech Catalyst challenges announced today

Round 3 GovTech Catalyst challenges announced today

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Tech firms can pitch innovative solutions to these crowdsourced public sector challenges. Winning firms will get up to £50,000 to build prototypes....

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GOV.UK Notify wins Civil Service Operational Excellence Award

GOV.UK Notify wins Civil Service Operational Excellence Award

Friday, 09 November 2018

The team that runs GOV.UK Notify, GDS’s notifications platform used across the public sector, has won the Operational Excellence Award in this year’s ...

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Submit an innovation challenge for the GovTech Catalyst round 3

Submit an innovation challenge for the GovTech Catalyst round 3

Tuesday, 09 October 2018

Public sector organisations can submit service delivery and operational challenges for the next GovTech Catalyst competitions from today until 12 Nove...

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Submit an innovation challenge for the GovTech Catalyst round 2

Submit an innovation challenge for the GovTech Catalyst round 2

Monday, 21 May 2018

Public sector organisations can submit policy and operational challenges for the next GovTech Catalyst competitions from today until 25 June 2018....

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The first GovTech Catalyst competition launches today

The first GovTech Catalyst competition launches today

Thursday, 10 May 2018

Digital and technology companies are invited to pitch innovative solutions to the challenge of identifying online still image propaganda created by Da...

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Digital Outcomes and Specialists 1 expires on 2 September 2017

Digital Outcomes and Specialists 1 expires on 2 September 2017

Monday, 31 July 2017

The Digital Outcomes and Specialists 1 framework on the Digital Marketplace will expire at 11:59pm on 2 September 2017....

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G Cloud 8 will expire on 28 July 2017

G Cloud 8 will expire on 28 July 2017

Tuesday, 25 July 2017

The G-Cloud 8 (G8) framework on the Digital Marketplace will expire at 11:59pm on Friday 28 July 2017. ...

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