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Directgov

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Directgov was the British government's digital service for people in the United Kingdom, which provided a single point of access to public sector information and services. [1]

46 relations: Adobe Flash Player, BBC, British government departments, Budget Day, Business Link, Cabinet Office, Central Office of Information, Crown copyright, Danny Alexander, Department for Work and Pensions, E-Government Unit, Executive agency, Facebook, Francis Maude, Freeview (UK), Google, Gov.uk, Government Digital Service, Government of the United Kingdom, HM Treasury, Honor Blackman, Interactive television, Kelly Brook, Machinery of government, Mobile browser, Mobile phone, MSN, MySociety, Passport, Personally identifiable information, Public sector, Sky UK, Spending Review, Suggs (singer), Teletext, Television licence, The Guardian, Transformational Government, Twitter, Ukonline, Universal Jobmatch, Virgin Media, Web widget, Welsh language, Yahoo!, YouTube.

Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player (labeled Shockwave Flash in Internet Explorer and Firefox) is freeware for using content created on the Adobe Flash platform, including viewing multimedia contents, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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British government departments

The Government of the United Kingdom exercises its executive authority through a number of government departments or departments of state.

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Budget Day

Budget Day is the day that a government presents its budget to a legislature for approval, typically in a ceremonial fashion.

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Business Link

Business Link was a government-funded business advice and guidance service in England.

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Cabinet Office

The Cabinet Office is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for supporting the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

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Central Office of Information

The Central Office of Information (COI) was the UK government's marketing and communications agency.

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Crown copyright

Crown copyright is a form of copyright claim used by the governments of a number of Commonwealth realms.

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Danny Alexander

Sir Daniel Grian Alexander (born 15 May 1972) is a Scottish former Liberal Democrat politician who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 2010 and 2015.

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Department for Work and Pensions

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the largest government department in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for welfare and pension policy.

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E-Government Unit

The e-Government Unit (eGU) was a unit of the Cabinet Office of the government of the United Kingdom responsible for helping various government departments use information technology to increase efficiency and improve electronic access to government services.

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Executive agency

An executive agency is a part of a government department that is treated as managerially and budgetarily separate, to carry-out some part of the executive functions of the United Kingdom government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Francis Maude

Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham (born 4 July 1953) is a British Conservative politician, who served over 25 years on the front bench in the House of Commons, including posts as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster-General, as well as Member of Parliament representing Horsham in Sussex, and then as Baron Maude of Horsham as Minister of State for Trade and Investment until April 2016.

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Freeview (UK)

Freeview is the United Kingdom's digital terrestrial television platform.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Gov.uk

gov.uk (styled on the site as GOV.UK) is a United Kingdom public sector information website, created by the Government Digital Service to provide a single point of access to HM Government services.

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Government Digital Service

The Government Digital Service is a unit of the Government of the United Kingdom's Cabinet Office tasked with transforming the provision of government digital services.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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HM Treasury

Her Majesty's Treasury (HM Treasury), sometimes referred to as the Exchequer, or more informally the Treasury, is the British government department responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance policy and economic policy.

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Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman (born 22 August 1925)Ancestry.com.

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Interactive television

Interactive television (also known as ITV or iTV) is a form of media convergence, adding data services to traditional television technology.

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Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook (born 23 November 1979) is an English model, actress and television presenter best known for her modelling work in the UK, and in the US for her role in the NBC sitcom One Big Happy, as well as a regular panelist on Celebrity Juice.

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Machinery of government

The machinery of government (sometimes MoG) means the interconnected structures and processes of government, such as the functions and accountability of departments in the executive branch of government.

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Mobile browser

A mobile browser is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.

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MSN

MSN (stylized as msn) is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, the same release date as Windows 95.

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MySociety

mySociety is an e-democracy project of the UK-based registered charity named UK Citizens Online Democracy.

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Passport

A passport is a travel document, usually issued by a country's government, that certifies the identity and nationality of its holder primarily for the purpose of international travel.

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Personally identifiable information

Personal information, described in United States legal fields as either personally identifiable information (PII), or sensitive personal information (SPI), as used in information security and privacy laws, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.

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Public sector

The public sector (also called the state sector) is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises.

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Sky UK

Sky UK (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited, BSkyB and Sky) is a telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom.

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Spending Review

A Spending Review or occasionally Comprehensive Spending Review is a governmental process in the United Kingdom carried out by HM Treasury to set firm expenditure limits and, through public service agreements, define the key improvements that the public can expect from these resources.

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Suggs (singer)

Graham McPherson (born 13 January 1961), known by the stage name Suggs, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, radio personality and actor.

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Teletext

Teletext (or broadcast teletext) is a television information retrieval service created in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s by the Philips Lead Designer for VDUs, John Adams.

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Television licence

A television licence or broadcast receiving licence is a payment required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts, or the possession of a television set where some broadcasts are funded in full or in part by the licence fee paid.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Transformational Government

Transformational Government is the use of computer-based information and communications technologies (ICT) to change the way governments work.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Ukonline

Ukonline was a "portal" website of the UK Government linking to public sector information, and was originally called me.gov.

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Universal Jobmatch

Universal Jobmatch was a British website for finding job vacancies.

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Virgin Media

Virgin Media Limited is a British company which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom.

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Web widget

In computing, a web widget is a software widget for the web.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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Direct.gov.uk, DirectGov, Directgov.co.uk, UnitedKingdom.gov.uk.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directgov

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