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Quick start

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What we run

Alpha main site

Live

The front page of the alpha programme — where the public meets our services. Start here to see what we ship the way a citizen sees it.

Forms

Live

Published government forms citizens actually fill in. The homepage lists every live form; each environment has its own instance.

Form builder

Live

The internal tool for composing and publishing forms — where a paper process becomes a digital service.

Chat

Live

The citizen-facing chat assistant for navigating government services and forms.

Case management

Live

Per-ministry case tracking for applications that need human review — separate instances per ministry (MoE, MoY).

Track my application

Live

Lets citizens check the status of a submitted application without calling anyone.

EZPay+

Live

The government payments gateway our forms hand off to when a service costs money.

Feature flagging

Live

Toggle features on and off across services without redeploying — check here before assuming a feature is broken.

Barbados Digital Toolkit

Live

Resources and tooling for digital service delivery across government, beyond the alpha team itself.

Prototypes

Alpha experiments, mostly GitHub Pages per the prototype-hosting standard (#2009). Each card links the live prototype and its repo. Not production services.

MDA directory

Alpha

Directory of Barbados ministries, departments and agencies — who is who across government, in one place.

Service register

Alpha

Register of government services — the working list behind what gets digitised next.

BLA forms

Alpha

Barbados Licensing Authority forms prototypes. Not for production use.

Immigration & visas

Alpha

Test portal for immigration and visa services on alpha.gov.bb.

GovBB prototypes

Alpha

General collection of early GovBB experiments — the scratchpad before ideas get their own repo.

Justice of the Peace

Alpha

Find a Justice of the Peace near you, by parish and availability.

MoE job letter

Alpha

Get a job letter from the Ministry of Education — request flow prototype.

Find a polyclinic

Alpha

Directory of Barbados' nine polyclinics — locations, hours and services.

Open pharmacy

Alpha

Free or subsidised prescriptions through the Special Benefit Service, with a live pharmacy directory.

New forms

Alpha

Early forms experiments — description TBC; see the repo for what's inside.

Find an emergency shelter

Alpha

Locate official emergency shelters — hurricane-season directory prototype.

Gig worker protection

Alpha

Mobile-first clickable prototype: gig worker social protection for NIS Barbados. Alpha, for user testing.

Self-employed NIS

Alpha

National Insurance content pages for self-employed workers.

NISSS benefits

Alpha

NISSS benefits prototype — description TBC; see the repo for current scope.

Pension calculator

Alpha

Estimate government pension entitlements for public servants in Barbados.

St Thomas queue

Alpha

Live queue management for the St Thomas office — the busiest prototype we run (Amplify-hosted).

Crop advisor

Alpha

Agricultural guidance prototype for farmers — crop advice by season and region (sandbox).

People & HR

Delivery & Planning

Design & Code

Standards & Docs

Dashboards & Monitoring

Incident Response & Ops

Ordered for use: prepare → respond → learn.

Comms & Public

People & process

How we're organised

Who does what, how to get started, and the shape of the team.

"Mission statement TBC — agree the words as a team, then set them here via PR."

Meet users' needs

Every service starts from what citizens actually need, not what's easiest to build.

Everyone can use it

Accessible, simple, relatable language — services that work the first time.

Open and transparent

Open platforms, open code, visible decisions.

Drawn from the Barbados Digital Service Standards we assess every service against.

New here? Start here

your first month

Day one

  • Log in to BambooHR — profile, leave, policies
  • Join Slack and say hello; add #alpha-gov-alerts
  • Accept your GitHub org invite

First week

First month

HR: extend this with paperwork/benefits steps once the HR doc list is confirmed.

Our teams

who does what

Health 8 people · 5.5 FTE

Digital services for the Ministry of Health and Environmental Health.

Serves: Health, Environmental Health

Alyssa Efe Leann ½ Adunni ½ Tyrell Shayla ½ Aaron ½ Christopher ½

NIS 6 people · 4.5 FTE

National Insurance and Barbados Revenue Authority services.

Serves: NIS, BRA

Kareem ½ Blessing Leann ½ Amoge Kristin Tarika ½

Platform 10 people · 7 FTE

The shared foundations — infrastructure, hosting, tooling, and this page.

Serves: Cross-MDA

Kelly Aaron ½ Ihtisham ½ Isaiah Shannon Zainab ½ Tarika ½ Christopher ½ Laron Harry ½

Content 5 people · 3.33 FTE

Content design and plain-language standards across every service.

Serves: Cross-MDA

Annette ⅓ Fabian Shayla ½ Shari Zainab ½

Bridge 7 people · 4.33 FTE

Connecting delivery teams with MDAs, strategy, and stakeholders.

Serves: Cross-MDA

Gavin Annette ⅓ Adunni ½ Udo ½ Duncan ½ Harry ½ Abisola

Pilot 6 people · 3.33 FTE

New service experiments with the Ministries of Youth and Education.

Serves: Youth, Education

Kareem ½ Annette ⅓ Udo ½ Duncan ½ Ihtisham ½ Joshua

Membership, FTE and splits from the assignments board (source: people-tracker). Hover a name for their role; ½ and ⅓ mark people split across teams; outlined names are the team’s PM and delivery manager. Corrections: PR either repo.

Org chart PM/DM per team from the assignments board; formal reporting lines live in BambooHR.
Head of GovTech
Name TBC — set via PR
Health team
PM Alyssa · DM Efe
8 people · 5.5 FTE
NIS team
PM Kareem · DM Blessing
6 people · 4.5 FTE
Platform team
DM Kelly
10 people · 7 FTE
Content team
DM Annette
5 people · 3.33 FTE
Bridge team
PM Gavin · DM Annette
7 people · 4.33 FTE
Pilot team
PM Kareem · DM Annette
6 people · 3.33 FTE