The document discusses plans to create a single, unified publishing platform for the UK government on gov.uk. It aims to consolidate hundreds of separate government websites onto one platform to make information more easy for the public to find. Key goals include pooling government content, standardizing how policy is explained, and building new publishing tools to help government organizations publish information more efficiently and consistently. The changes are intended to make it simpler for people to understand what parts of the government do what and find relevant information.

1. Neil Williams
CORPORATE PLATFORM

2. gov.uk beta – deliverable #3
c.15 million people interested in the
work and workings of Government.
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3. gov.uk beta – deliverable #3
Of the 100s of sites scattered across But we’re making those people
separate .gov.uk domains, the lion's work hard: to know which bit of gov
share are about government does what; to know how that
organisations; explaining who they website works; then find the
are and what they do. content (if it’s there!) and decipher
They’re visited by millions of people the meaning (if they can!)
per month interested in thousands of
subjects where govt has an active role
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4. gov.uk beta – expect: first unified view of Government
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Those are the problems we’re trying to solve with a
single publishing platform for government organisations
We’re testing with a handful of departments in beta the
pooling together of content (speeches, news,
publications, policy info) to create the first ever unified
view of govt activity
In govt context, that's a radical move. But ours is not a
unique problem – the BBC have just done the same.

5. gov.uk beta – expect: structured definitions of policy
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We’re going further, imposing
structure and rigour to how we
explain government policy, in
consistent formats, more clearly
than before
And by doing that, we’re turning
content into data that other
people can re-use

6. gov.uk beta – expect: intuitive new publishing tool
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To make all this possible
we’re building custom
software that meets the
specific needs of publishers in
government.
This will help them publish
more efficiently, more
consistently than ever before.

7. gov.uk beta – “Remember when we had all those separate websites?”
What was that It’s worth acknowledging that it’s a
tough road ahead. It’s scary for any
all about?! organisation to give up its website.
But by building something that is
easier for end users to use and for
publishers to maintain, we will look
back and ask: why did we have all
those separate websites?