The Government Digital Service (GDS) is five years old this week – and, perhaps not too surprisingly, there are plans afoot to eat lots of cake to mark the anniversary.
GDS intends to put up content all week about its achievements, but most eyes will be on later in the week when its Director General, Kevin Cunnington, has promised to blog about the planned publication of the unit’s new strategy and his plans for 2017 “and beyond”.
News of both the milestone and how the team intends to celebrate it were shared today on a new blog on the GDS site, which also directs interested parties to a link to a more official ‘story so far,’ ‘A GDS Story’, here.
That document is a way for stakeholders to be reminded, admits the team, about what may be very familiar about the Service and its role in government IT – but in away that’s been summarised and pulled together in one place, with plenty of pictures, videos and links, for the first time, says the blog.
By the way, if you think there’s something missing in the ‘Story’, don’t be shy about letting GDS know about it; it says the history is called ‘A’ story, not ‘The’ (definitive) story, for a reason – there are lots of possible perspectives here, and if you think (perhaps as a tech SME vendor or a procurement specialist or an ICT practitioner) there’s a bit of distortion, your input is invited.
Please do so in the form of comments, corrections and suggestions to gds-story@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk, and the authors will incorporate them, we’re promised.
ThinkDigitalPartners.com will cover Cunnington’s remarks when they come on stream, as well as any other statements the five year anniversary produces this week.
We’d also like to add our congratulations… which is in no way influenced by the desire to get some of that nice-sounding cake.
Nope. Not at all.
