Government Digital Strategy

Definitions of Data:

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Main Focus of Document:

Sets out how government will redesign its digital services so that people prefer to use them.

Target Beneficiaries or Sectors:

businesses, citizens

Key Elements:

The strategy sets out how the government will become digital by default.

The central elements of the strategy are for the government to:

• Improve departmental digital leadership
• Develop digital capability throughout the civil service
• Redesign transactional services to meet a new Digital by Default Service Standard
• Complete the transition to GOV.UK
• Increase the number of people who use digital services
• Provide consistent services for people who have rarely or never been online
• Broaden the range of those tendering to supply digital services including more small and medium sized enterprises
• Build common technology platforms for digital by default services
• Remove unnecessary legislative barriers
• Base service decisions on accurate and timely management information
• Improve the way that the government makes policy and communicates with people
• Collaborate with partners across public, private and voluntary sectors to help more people go online
• Help third party organisations create new services and better information access for their own users by opening up government data and transactions