Gender bias concerns raised over GP app
Onlookers are asking why the chatbot created by Babylon Health – which provides the GP at Hand service – is offering such different guidance to men and women. But the company tells PublicTechnology its service is working as intended.
Billion-pound courts transformation work ‘still behind schedule’
Digital-led reform programme still facing challenges with budget and timescales
Greenwich offers £100k for digital leader to drive ‘ambitious programme of transformation’
London borough recruiting for senior tech leader
Government to train public sector leaders on AI and robotics
National Leadership Centre admits first cohort of top officials
Government’s Local Digital Fund hands out another £750k
Six projects selected for continued backing
Government consults on future UK-EU cyber relations
European certification scheme recently came into effect
Regulator calls for ‘informed public debate’ on facial recognition
Biometrics commissioner calls on government ministers to lead discussion
GDS picks large consultancies for series of £1m ‘urgent’ Brexit-support contracts
Agency selects Deloitte, PA Consulting, and Cognizant for apparent ‘bench’ arrangements to provide on-demand personnel
MoJ to review digital transformation impact on access to justice
Report on effect of common platform ‘expected by summer 2021’
Trio of leaders sought to build ‘data-led DfE’
Department recruiting for three senior managers in new-look data directorate
How online triage is transforming access to NHS GPs in east London
Digital-first appointments are delivering the biggest improvement in access to GPs for 10 years, Stratford medical director Dr Bhupinder Kohli tells Gill Hitchcock
Apps, automation and allotments
Durham County Council's head of digital Alan Patrickson lifts the lid on the authority’s citizen-focused five-year transformation journey
Concern and confusion grows over settled status scheme
With free movement now set to end abruptly on 31 October, Home Office remains unable to answer key questions
Major digital programmes prompt surge in government spending on temps
Whitehall’s outlay on consultants and temporary workers rose by £267m in FY19
Can the GDS innovation strategy deliver a lasting legacy for government?
Government's new Innovation Strategy set out ambitious proposals to update processes, eliminate ageing kit, and embrace emerging technologies. PublicTechnology caught up with GDS innovation head Sue Bateman to find out more
How open data is helping Falkirk halt summer ‘holiday hunger’
Scotland’s Falkirk Council is using open geospatial data to help families find school lunch clubs and other resources. Gill Hitchcock reports
The public sector must ensure it does not leave the wrong kind of legacy
Government must eliminate ageing tech to ensure it is not left behind by society at large, believes Sascha Giese of SolarWinds
Tech firms should join a coalition of the willing to support interoperability for police IT
Jessica Russell of techUK believes increased collaboration between the emergency services and technology partners could deliver improved public-safety outcomes
Start-ups can show the way to public sector transformation
Hanna Johnson of tech accelerator Public believes that transforming citizen services will require government to adopt new ways of buying and using technology
Policymakers and politicians must fill the AI information vacuum
UK citizens remain open to new technology, but government must act to ensure negative narratives do not take hold, believes Mark Kleinman of the King’s Policy Institute
Government badly needs a new message on encryption
The digital fight needs political might
The case for transformation could do with more high-profile Westminster backers, according to PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall