Definition 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 Sector

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

Policy/Regulation Mirrors

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