Birmingham to boost staffing for ICT contract oversight
Birmingham City Council is set to beef up its in-house ICT capability in order to better manage its outsourced joint venture arrangements with supplier Capita.
Partnership launched to ease data sharing
A new partnership has been launched aimed at making data sharing safer for public services.
Council website progress "too slow"
Local government's progress on digital transformation is too slow for it to save council services, according to this year’s detailed review of council websites by Socitm.
The 20 best UK local authority websites 2015
Does your council appear on this year’s list of top performing council websites produced by Socitm?
Weekly tenders update
Bristol City Council has launched a £1m tender to provide 76km of ducting to provide wireless services in an enterprise zone.
Download: ENISA releases cloud procurement guide
The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has released a step-by-step guide for public sector bodies on procuring cloud services.
Healthy debate
A recent round table assessed the potential of digital and data in transforming, enhancing and reimagining healthcare.
Offshoring provides major barrier to cloud adoption
A survey of UK Parliamentarians shows there is significant concern that offshoring data is hindering local government cloud.
Artificial intelligence services
G-Cloud is more than a framework
The G-Cloud framework must not lose sight of its core messaging when it comes to driving good cloud policies and practices, according to Peter Groucutt.
Does the CCS hand know what the GDS hand is doing?
So the government is to retain agile services on the Digital Marketplace after all. But, even with this last-minute reprieve granted, the whole episode begs numerous questions, says Harry Metcalfe.