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> The GDS team works on portal to other services. No GDS does both. The run the main portal, but they also consult and build out the actual services as well.
by avianlyric 5y ago
> The GDS team works on portal to other services.
No GDS does both. The run the main portal, but they also consult and build out the actual services as well.
The entire reasons for GDSs success is because they were given the authority to go into and department, and simply replace what they had. GDS designed systems have slowly replaced every other government over the past 10 years.
Today you have to be doing something really unusual to encounter a service that hasn’t been overhauled by GDS. Everything from passport renewals to tax reports have all been rebuilt by GDS, and all are clear and easy to use.
If you’re not a U.K. citizen using gov.uk services, then I have no idea how you can comment on what GDS have and have not built. But it’s substantially more than a portal, the portal is barely scratching the surface of what they’ve achieved.
- majkinetor 5y ago> If you’re not a U.K. citizen using gov.uk services, then I have no idea how you can comment on what GDS have and have not built. I am following them and listening them on IT conferences. I didn't know they have such jurisdiction. But obviously, its still not the same thing, far away from it. I am talking about services that take multi years to make and involve 100ths engineers from big companies. Each of them. GDS didn't create a government bank or auction platform or eInvocing system. They can't. Its a "bit more involved" then organizing passports, identification cards, documents etc.