I'm not from GDS - however they're one of our customers at ScraperWiki, and I know lots of the people there (via the digital civics NGO mySociety which we start

I'm not from GDS - however they're one of our customers at ScraperWiki, and I know lots of the people there (via the digital civics NGO mySociety which we started over 10 years ago). There's been lots of interest in GDS from the US over the years, people over there saying "why haven't we copied it yet?". As far as I can tell the US Digital Service and 18F are that copying in a good way - taking lots of the lessons from GDS and applying to the US situation. As an example of the kind of thing, see the UK's Service Design Manual https://www.gov.uk/service-manual https://www.gov.uk/service-manual - there are sections for developers, designers and so on. So basically, if you're good at tech, and want better Government websites (who doesn't!), go help them :)