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title: "Government Digital Service: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "The Government Digital Service is a unit of the Government of the United Kingdom's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, tasked with transforming the provision of online public services."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-government-digital-service
type: Organization
wikidata: Q5588795
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service
website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digital-service
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Government Digital Service

> The Government Digital Service is a unit of the Government of the United Kingdom's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, tasked with transforming the provision of online public services.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-government-digital-service

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United Kingdom
- Founded: 2011-04-01
- Status: private
- Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digital-service
- Also known as: GDS

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/GDSTeam
- github: https://github.com/alphagov

## Key people

- Mike Bracken (public sector technology leader)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Government Digital Service, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-government-digital-service#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5588795, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service

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