Presentation by Pete Herlihy, lead product manager at the Government Digital Service. Delivered at the Turing Festival in Edinburgh on Thursday 18 August 2016.
12. GDS is here to
make it easy for
government to
be digital
13. The nine most terrifying
words in the English language
are: ‘I’m from the government
and I’m here to help.’
Ronald Reagan
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21. GDS
Individual electoral registration became law
on 10 June 2014
Before that, the “head of the household”
was required to register all residents of the
household who are eligible
22. 40 million people were
automatically
registered to vote under
the new system –
without lifting a finger
24. GDS
Registering to vote now takes less
than 3 minutes on a mobile phone
It took 12 months of policy team
and lawyer wrangling to make that
possible
26. ...allow citizens to track
and trace an application,
a request, a purchase or
a repayment in a few
simple clicks.
The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP
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