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Free sharing and reuse - digital magic? Part 2

Part 2 - Free sharing and reuse is a key approach to doing digital better. We explore the inherent challenges, how to make good decisions, and how to realise the benefits of freely sharing the foundational elements of a digital service.

24 Nov 2025

Government digital Open source Software Development

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Free sharing and reuse - digital magic? Part 1

Part 1 - Free sharing and reuse is a key approach to doing digital better. We explore the inherent challenges, how to make good decisions, and how to realise the benefits of freely sharing the foundational elements of a digital service.

8 Aug 2025

Government digital Open source Software Development

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Designing to integrate AI into personalised government services

CYB’s Senior Service Designer Erlend Prendergast writes about how government can provide more personalised AI-enabled services with smart design decisions

1 May 2025

Large Language Models AI Service design

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The importance of research and user-centred design in healthcare

Drawing on her experience of the healthcare sector, CYB’s Lead User Researcher Anita Chandra writes about how the NHS can benefit from putting research and UCD at its centre

2 Apr 2025

Healthcare NHS Service design

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Improving FCDO guidance for British people abroad: how we unpublished 120 pages

How do you condense 120 pages of content into one clear and efficient page of guidance? CYB’s Content Designer Alison Evans writes about one of the key tasks she carried out for FCDO

21 Jan 2025

Government digital Digital transformation

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A Christmas letter, 2024

Founder/Managing Director Ben Stewart reflects on an eventful and successful year for CYB, and looks forward to 2025

18 Dec 2024

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What is it like to roll out a digital service to every country in the world?

Working on a service that requires a global rollout is exciting - but also full of obstacles. CYB’s Associate Project/Delivery Manager Ros Vaughan writes about her experience

24 Oct 2024

Government digital Service design Transformation

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How do you ensure performance when building AI services?

When building the FCDO’s first ever public-facing LLM service, CYB came through challenges to guarantee performance - our Head of Engineering Ali Salaman explains all

5 Sept 2024

Large Language Models AI Government digital

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Caution Your Blast announces launch of new UK Government marriage service

CYB has built a new service for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office that makes it easier for British people to get married or register a civil partnership abroad

15 May 2024

Digital service FCDO Service design

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Caution Your Blast announces launch of new UK Government AI-powered service

CYB has built a new innovative enquiry service for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office that leverages Large Language Model technology – a first for the UK Government.

18 Apr 2024

Large Language Models Government digital AI

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How Give A Little does things differently

In the last video of our series, Director of Software Engineering Max Stewart talks about the ways in which our point of donation software is transforming the charity sector

11 Sept 2023

Innovation Give a little

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Staying one step ahead of security threats

In our latest video detailing how CYB use new ways of working, our Head of Engineering Ali Salaman talks about how we approach software security

26 Jul 2023

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Delivery Management at CYB: getting up to speed quickly with new work

CYB’s Associate Delivery Manager Ros Vaughan gives three steps to follow that will set your team up for better outcomes and giving value for money

27 Apr 2023

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World Creativity and Innovation Day 2023: how we innovate at CYB

As the United Nations celebrates the role of creativity and innovation in worldwide problem solving, we start a video series on innovation at CYB

21 Apr 2023

What place does innovation have at CYB?

Innovation at CYB: what does it mean?

At the start of month where Caution Your Blast is looking at innovation in tech, our Founder/Managing Director Ben Stewart considers what the term means in a modern context, and how we innovate at CYB

9 Mar 2023

How Ali Salaman became CYB’s tech whiz and helped transform digital in government

How Ali Salaman became CYB’s tech whiz and helped transform digital in government

Ali Salaman, CYB’s Head of Engineering, is a talented software developer with a background in payment processing and more than 20 years experience. Here he tells us about his role with CYB and his experience transforming old code within government.

15 Feb 2023

Software Development Government digital

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How to transition into the wonderful world of service design

In this "back to school" blog series, CYB's head of design, Christine Fent shares how you can transition into service design and why now might be the perfect time of year to reassess your career path.

8 Sept 2022

Service design career change

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Why CYB is partnering with Climate Edge for its next hackathon

CYB and Climate Edge aim to help smallholder farmers upscale their business

17 May 2022

Climate Innovation Hackathon

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How Christine Fent used service design to help UK citizens stranded abroad during Covid-19 lockdowns

Christine Fent, Head of Design at Caution Your Blast

28 Apr 2022

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World Creativity and Innovation Day: Using digital as a force for good

CYB highlights a project that helped emerging countries improve their digital capabilities

21 Apr 2022

Digital capability Government Innovation

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Give A Little and a pandemic

Looking back on how we've iterated Give A Little over the past year

9 Aug 2021

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Can the COVID cycling trend be helped by digital?

Can the COVID cycling trend be helped by digital?

3 Jul 2020

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Importance of Government Digital

The importance of government digital

Government digital services need to focus on end users

27 Mar 2020

Government digital

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Charities to go contactless for Christmas

Software allows charities to collect cashless donations

11 Dec 2019

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Point of donation software service

Enabling the charity sector in a cashless society

11 Dec 2019

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