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Good Practice Guide (GPG) 43 sets out an approach to determining the necessary components to deliver public services securely online.
Advice for community managers and people involved in communities of practice in the public sector.
This document provides guidance on how to make data sharing more efficient in government departments and agencies.
Guidance on migrating to and using cloud in the public sector.
Follow these steps when you want to stop using your domain name.
This guidance covers how to run your API as a service, including building the team you will need and the lifecycle of your API
How you can test and manage your API when it is in beta development.
Contractual exit plans must be developed as an alternative to extension or evidence provided for why an extension is both legally allowed and value for money
If a supplier has a contract for service provision, it must not also do the service integration for that service
The GOV.UK Data Labs team piloted the standard for their Related Links tool; a recommendation engine built to aid navigation of GOV.UK.
Using Memorandums of Understanding for cloud services.
This guidance explains why and how public sector organisations should move to modern network solutions and away from legacy networks with information on standards you need to follow and case studies.
You must have a legacy-proofing plan for all digital services to prevent the build up of technical debt and future legacy
The following web-based application programming interface (API) standards guidance will help your organisation deliver the best possible services to users.
This guidance outlines the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework used to evaluate the criticality of legacy-related risks across government entities
The roadmap for digital and data sets out a common cross-government vision for 2025 and a set of specific actions to achieve digital transformation in government
Find out how the government chooses open standards, and how you can suggest open standards, to improve services for users.
How to manage and support your live API.
Find details here about the GDS and CDDO information sharing and event planning privacy policy and how we collect and process your data.
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