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Free sharing and reuse - digital magic? Part 3

Free sharing and reuse is a key approach to doing digital better. In this final part 3 we look at how to share, in particular at the different means we have to share in order to realise the benefits of freely sharing reusable digital assets..

9 Mar 2026

Open source Government Software Development

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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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The AI Action Summit 2025: Progress, Promises and Pitfalls

As the Paris summit ends, CYB’s Head of Engineering Ali Salaman takes stock of the pros and cons and what it means for the future of AI

12 Feb 2025

AI in Government

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Improving FCDO guidance for British people abroad: how we unpublished 120 pages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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Caution Your Blast named as supplier to Digital Capability for Health 2 Framework

CYB joins the likes of IBM, Ernst & Young and Thoughtworks onto the Crown Commercial Service’s list of 22 companies providing digital solutions to improve the NHS and other public sector healthcare bodies

12 Dec 2024

consulting NHS Digital transformation

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Problem Lenses: How and when should I use AI? - Part 2

Part 2 of Ali Salaman’s three-part series explores the potential for AI to help businesses with process automation and optimisation, promote ethical choices and translate text

20 Nov 2024

AI in Government Large Language Models

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Problem Lenses: How and when should I use AI? - Part 1

Part 1 of Ali Salaman’s three-part series looks at how AI could help businesses automate repetitive tasks, support complex decisions and generate insights from unstructured data

19 Nov 2024

Large Language Models AI in Government

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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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Why AI won’t work without content design

CYB’s associate Content Designer Helen Gaskell writes about why we won’t be able to fully trust AI until we fix the information we feed it

10 Jul 2024

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Five ways being a carer makes me a better content designer

CYB’s Alison Evans writes about the life lessons she’s learned from caring for her son - and how those experiences help when it comes to content design

26 Jun 2024

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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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Collaboration at CYB: how person-centric ways of working are at the heart of success

CYB’s Director of Digital, Richard Grove, writes about the ways to achieve constructive collaboration with new teams

1 Jun 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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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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Helping Brits abroad, supporting charities and a website redesign: CYB’s favourite projects of 2022

Four members of CYB’s team reflect on their favourite collaborative projects from last year

18 Jan 2023

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The power of kindness

Following our "How CYB cares" series, Christine Fent reflects on the importance of kindness in the workplace

16 Nov 2022

Caring work relationships

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Why Caution Your Blast keeps XGovFormBuilder open source

CYB believes in using digital as a force for good, and sharing our open source, reusable form builder with the wider community helps us do just that

9 Nov 2022

Open source Form builder

The good, the bad and the ugly of working in different consultancies

The good, the bad and the ugly of working in different consultancies

Anita Chandra, CYB’s User Researcher Lead, tells what she’s learned from 15 years of working at consultancies - and why CYB gets things right

26 Oct 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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Leveraging the XGov Form Builder

Earlier this month, Jen, our Senior Developer, gave a talk for Services Week on the open source, free-to-use, Cross Government Form Builder that we’ve been developing with a range of government departments and international collaborators.

1 Apr 2022

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CYB Voices: Spotlight on Richard Bray, Full Stack Developer

An interview with Richard B as part of our series of conversations putting a spotlight on, and celebrating, different members of our team.

11 Mar 2022

Software Development

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CYB x OSS: how we're making the most of Open Source

Using OSS technology to improve online services

8 Oct 2020

Importance of Government Digital

The importance of government digital

Government digital services need to focus on end users

27 Mar 2020

Government digital