Government reveals plans for £10m real-time roadworks info service
Service will launch to some local authorities and utilities firms in May 2019
Right to work checks go fully digital
Service allowing firms to check potential employees’ immigration status can be transacted entirely online
London picks new tech for election vote counting
Local authority opts for software from Smartmatic
Capita-led project saw Army website launched four years late and at triple the planned cost
Programme has consistently fallen well short of recruitment goals, NAO report finds
Department for International Trade offers £118k for CTO to ‘raise digital literacy’
Chosen candidate will be tasked with setting departmental IT vision
CCS launches £550m education tech framework
Up to 100 suppliers sought for five-lot contract
Some government departments spending over half their budget with outsourcers, report finds
Study from IfG finds that outsourcing accounts for a third of all Whitehall spending
Government seeks new major projects chief
IPA chief executive Tony Meggs is departing to take a post at Crossrail
DWP offers £180k for new CIO
Department commences search for replacement for Mayank Prakash and confirms Simon McKinnon as interim tech chief
Devon spends £750k on low-code platform
County council believes software can expedite the launch of new services
Swindon: how a ‘traditional’ council is playing digital catch-up
Ensuring vulnerable people are not excluded is central to Swindon council’s digital access drive. Gill Hitchcock reports.
Why the NHS needs to ‘take the lead’ on sharing data with the private sector
A study from Reform finds a haphazard patchwork of data-sharing being led at a local level. The think tank’s director of research Eleonora Harwich tells PublicTechnology why a national strategy is needed
MoJ digital chief: ‘Prisons have been bypassed by the digital revolution – that is our next really big challenge’
Tom Read, CDIO at the Ministry of Justice, talks to PublicTechnology about how he believes technology and digital services could help turn prisons from a ‘Victorian dungeon to a rehabilitative space’
How the Austrian Digitalization Agency aims to ‘demystify technology’ for SMEs and citizens
Newly created government organisation aims to help promote the digital economy and work with departmental technology leaders. Its leader Andreas Tschas tells PublicTechnology about his plans
‘It is a lot easier to put the blueberries in the muffin at the beginning’ – how to design a government service
Leading government design professionals share their thoughts on how to make services as inclusive as possible
Interview: Oliver Dowden on Verify, spending controls, and how ‘GDS is moving into new spaces’
PublicTechnology talks to the minister for implementation about the challenges and successes of an eventful year for the Government Digital Service, and where the organisation goes from here
How Bolton and Wigan teamed up to tackle their cybersecurity challenges
Technology chief Dave Pearce explains how the two local authorities are working together to share data, technology, and services
Is G-Cloud broken?
For all its good intentions, the government's flagship digital services framework remains hamstrung by the wrong strategy and technical challenges, believes Romy Hughes of Brightman
The time is now to bridge the digital divide
Eliminating digital exclusion would reduce inequality and give the economy a multibillion-pound boost, according to Helen Milner of Good Things Foundation
How to create a blockchain-powered digital nation
Adopting the blockchain will help Scotland achieve its vision of becoming a fully digital nation and usher in an unprecedented era of economic growth, believes Neil McEvoy of DigitalScot.net
Current police ICT systems are in desperate need of change
John Kellet of public sector digital specialist Eduserv looks at what at the results of the annual Police ICT Survey tell us about the force’s tech set-up
The third sector must play a key role in ‘social digital government’
Government needs to make sure it is integrating resources from different places in support of common goals, according to Neil McEvoy of Digital Scotland