My name is George Charvill and I’m a digital intern at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the Transformation Hub in Leeds. I’m studying Accounting and Finance in my second year at the University of Leeds. I’ve just …
I’m Sophie Lambert and I’m the user researcher on the Secure Communications service. It’s my job to try to work out what we can do to make some of our most vulnerable users’ lives a little bit easier. People who …
I was very excited just before Christmas when the DWP Secure Communications team headed out into the big world to test our authentication service with real General Practitioners (GPs). Our team is currently working hard to get our service into Private …
I’m a senior developer in the Secure Communications team in DWP. When I started my career back in the 1980s, developers were often stuck in a room coding all day long, only interacting with other IT managers and developers. Communication …
The Secure Communications team recently passed their GDS Alpha review to move into Beta. Product Owner Rachel Woods reflects on the review and offers some insider knowledge on the experience. There's a phrase often used in the legal world: "if …
“I have a dream” a man once said. He went on to describe exactly what that dream was. His articulation was so successful that many of those listening heard a call to arms and understood that it was the start …
I LOVE innovation because of all those fantastic things that can really improve our lives. As a traveller, my smartphone brings me internet, email, calendar, photos and best of all face to face contact with my nearest and dearest. These …