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<p>A number of BIS services are available online including transaction services (e.g.
filing information and accounts at Companies House), as well as online guidance available
on GOV.UK and information on BIS services. BIS also uses digital channels to engage
stakeholders in developing policy making.</p><p>BIS is committed to the vision set
out in the Government Digital Strategy, publishing its own digital strategy in 2012.
BIS and Partner Organisations have embarked on a digital transformation programme
that by 2020 will ensure that all services that can be redesigned as such will be
'digital by default' and available on GOV.UK. They will be redesigned around the needs
of users i.e. businesses, students, employees and consumers.</p><p>As a critical first
step, BIS is playing a key role as part of the Government's Digital Exemplar Programme
covering organisations with services that have over 100k transactions annually. BIS
provides 5 of the 25 exemplar services. These are:</p><ul><li>Patents Renewal (Intellectual
Property Office (IPO))</li><li>Redundancy Payments (Insolvency Service)</li><li>Land
Registry Digital Delivery Service</li><li>Apprenticeships (Skills Funding Agency)</li><li>Part-Time
Student Finance (Student Loans Company)</li></ul><p>Each of these services have or
are being redesigned to be digital by default. Two are already live - Patents Renewal
and Part-Time Student Finance - and the remaining three will be publicly available
by end March 2015.</p><p>Beyond the exemplar services, The BIS Digital and Technology
2020 roadmap will identify all current non-digital services across BIS and Partner
Organisations that need to be redesigned to be digital by default by 2020 along with
the estimated timelines for development and online availability.</p>
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