This feels quite expensive? I wonder if there’s a market opportunity here for GOVUK Notify given it’s less than half the price and the scaleable infra is already there.

£3.6bn (over $4.2bn) going to domestic SMEs is worth celebrating! For others who want to learn how to replicate this success James Findlay’s blog is a good starting place bit.ly/2TZLXx2

Massive congratulations to Laura Dawson, completely deserved. In the short time I've worked with her, have been constantly impressed, you can see what I mean from useful blog posts like this one - aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicse…

One thing I 💜 about government is that we can share, adapt & re-use eachother's work. Any city/government/business could use these signs. They're made for the public good! x.com/TheCityofSac/s…

Welcome back, here's a recent blog post from the team on why design systems are important in building better public services aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicse…

45K to 610K in 10 mins. I'm so glad we have an infrastructure that scales quickly! Still growing. 85% mobile!

This was an excellent (and deep) holiday read. Would strongly recommend for anyone interested in digital sovereignty and data privacy. Discusses risks of future EU direction - including move towards techno-nationalism and Chinese model of the internet

This is excellent news. Tom Read really gets the spend controls and really showed strategy is the delivery, whether that’s delivering a a revolution in office IT in the cabinet office or overhauling legacy tech in MoJ. GDS in safe hands again.

So much gold in this conversation and blog based on Ben Aung's experience transforming UK govt and how a dated approach to data classification and security was stopping government from improving services through cloud computing aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicse…

Government's need to 'innovate' - solve problems themselves and not being able to accept someone else's solution to a problem, international best practice or standard is one of the biggest blockers to actual innovation.

Call out to other governments around the world - go learn from what is working and not working direct from one of your counterparts. Also you should do this too!

Women only have fair representation of legislative seats at a national level in less than 2% of countries in the world. #ChooseToChallenge #InternationalWomensDay

Great to see Citoyen Dangersmith in conversation with AWS for Government own Caroline on how to make inclusive services. Your context is not always your citizen's or user's context.

A bit US centric, but good general points for any gov trying to sort out tech or services from Dan "Quietly Quit" Hon Cyd Harrell +others. Having a tech literate org stands out for me (and understanding real users' needs). technologyreview.com/2021/03/17/102…

"We are moving away from #digital government and we are moving into an era, a phase, of what I would call responsive #government" Alex Holmes, Senior Manager Government Transformation Amazon Web Services

Don't forget to check out my BSides Vancouver session today at 6pm ET on career entrypoints. sites.google.com/fourthplanet.c…

Great to see our GDS #GlobalDigitalMarketplace open source OpenContracting Data 'Silvereye' prototype, which we've helped the South African National Treasury to implement, added to the Amazon Web Services curated Open Government Solutions... aws.amazon.com/government-edu… UK in South Africa🇬🇧🇿🇦 FCDO Digital Development 🎉

Estado Digital es un buen podcast nuevo donde se habla de la tecnología en América Latina, sus avances, ventajas, desafíos, alcances y mucho más. estadodigital.info Aquí es un avance -youtu.be/-53Ta6CoDbA

Roman Road Neighbourhood Plan referendum is this Thursday 🧵why you should vote Yes even though your vote maybe ignored by those in power Residents of the area will be asked to vote whether to add some extra land use policies to those already written to decide future planning 1/

Residents have voted in favour of adopting the Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Plan - 1743 Yes votes to 736 No votes. Seven years in the making, the Plan will give the local community more say in future planning decisions.