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Microsoft looks at how digital technology can improve firefighter safety 

G-Cloud purchases fell by almost a quarter in February over the previous month, government data reveal.

Public sector ICT experts gathered to discuss the steps required if cloud is to become a firm fixture in Scotland's public sector

The Welsh government’s environment adviser is to migrate disaster recovery and application and infrastructure support to the cloud in a bid to consolidate its separate systems.

The government’s promised Crown Marketplace online procurement platform should have its remit expanded to include “appropriate parts” of the HM Revenue and Customs’ Aspire IT contract, according to a new report.

Microsoft examines some of the key opportunities a CFO can gain through adopting the cloud.

G-Cloud purchases by local government made another steady rise during January – up 12% on December.

The Crown Commercial Service is on course to exceed the top end of its savings target for 2015-16, but director Matt Denham has spoken of the challenges the agency faces in the hunt for its own Uber and Airbnb equivalents.

Newcastle City Council and five other local authorities have begun to lend e-books and audiobooks via the cloud from mobile apps.

Director for G-Cloud and the digital commercial programme at the Government Digital Service moving to become deputy director of the BIS digital service.

Kingston Upon Hull City Council has launched the search for a supplier to undertake a huge overhaul of its online services.

Local government spending through the G-Cloud framework rose by 2.8% during December after a large drop in November.

Rolling out text alerts, sorting out "crap" government IT, cleaning up data, and trying to recruit skilled people when the money's tight — there's plenty going on in the world of government digital, as Matt Foster found at the Government Digital Service's annual gathering.

Suppliers are now able to remove services from the G-Cloud they no longer provide, following the introduction of improvements.

Dame Margaret Hodge has led criticism of the expected appointment of a director of cloud supplier and online retailer Amazon to a senior board role the Department for Work and Pensions.

Blackburn with Darwen Council has outsourced its revenues and benefit software to a cloud provider – reversing its original decision to bring it back in house.

One of the UK government’s top technology chiefs has welcomed news that Oracle is to increase cloud services hosted at its Slough datacentre to its public sector customers.

Scotland’s public sector is “scrambling” to stay on top of growing demands for improved digital infrastructure, a head of IT within the NHS has warned.

London Borough of Islington has approved the appointment of a supplier to deliver an ICT solution to join up social and health care records in a contract worth £10m.

A proposed data sharing body for public bodies across Greater Manchester will adopt a “federated data” model, rather than collating residents’ personal information on a single database.

Blockchain technology holds promise but won't succeed if it is applied to old, failed or impossible ideas, says Jeni Tennison.