Government Digital Service move 'grinds gears' in UK's e-government
The GDS “fell into a bit of a fray” during the reorganization ordered by incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s team, according to Laura Gilbert, former director of data science at 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's office. She told the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee: “It's difficult to know whether somebody won that fight and therefore won GDS, or it was more incidental and it was played off against something else. I was genuinely quite surprised by it.” REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The GDS was formed in 2011 under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition to help bring public services online.
- ▪The GDS “fell into a bit of a fray” during the reorganization ordered by incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s team, according to Laura Gilbert, former director of data science at 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's office.
- ▪She told the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee: “It's difficult to know whether somebody won that fight and therefore won GDS, or it was more incidental and it was played off against something else.
- ▪I was genuinely quite surprised by it.” REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The GDS was formed in 2011 under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition to help bring public ser
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