Cabinet Office launches £4m project to drive use of software robots across civil service
Supplier Capgemini to train civil servants and help departments develop RPA applications
DWP seeks £130k tech chief to lead digital service delivery and major hybrid cloud rollout
Department recruiting for senior digital professional to oversee development and design teams
'No mission longer than 11 weeks' - GOV.UK adopts new way of working
Projects can vary in scope, but must always wrap up inside a quarter
Home Office plots £5m project to equip police with facial-recognition software
Department issues contract notice for biometric software
DWP awards £11.4m software contract as part of legacy-migration scheme
Department invests in software supporting efforts to move away from VME platform
Critics turn up the heat on embattled Australian Digital Transformation Agency
Following a series of high-profile setbacks, central government digital arm faces renewed calls for independent investigation
Home Office creates £85k role for new data-protection leader
Department acts quickly to ensure compliance with GDPR requirements
The National Archives commits to apprenticeships as part of plan to ramp up digital headcount
Organisation is only public body working with Ada National College for Digital Skills as it plans to increase number of digital employees by 50%
Southend turns to technology to help citizens self-manage long-term conditions
Town identifies key targets for ‘technology-enabled care’ plans
GOV.UK Notify begins local government rollout
Some 20 authorities to test service over next few months
Q&A: UK Export Finance IT chief on how the department changed supply strategy after 15 years
Central government credit agency last year moved away from long-term single-supplier outsourcing deal to embrace disaggregated model
Canterbury raises its barriers to digital delivery
Peter Davies, Canterbury City Council’s head of digital transformation, talks to Gill Hitchcock about cloud, SaaS, big data, and delivering 85% of services digitally by 2019
Interview: Lifting the lid on how outsourcing giants offer government a ‘diseconomy of scale’
Littlefish boss Steve Robinson has worked in Whitehall as part of both an SME and a multinational. Here, he shares his insights from both sides of the fence
Interview: techUK head on the ‘leaders and laggards’ of government digital transformation
Industry body's public services programme leader discusses the 'cultural barriers' keeping SMEs out of the government IT landscape
Analysis: HMRC tops central government digital league table
Collation of performance-dashboard stats shows department is conducting almost all its transactions digitally, while other departments struggle to reach two thirds
Q&A with Tate digital director Ros Lawler – ‘We want to make art accessible to everyone’
Digital chief of gallery group discusses how technology is changing the way art is created and engaged with
A hundred days in, are the new metro mayors keeping their digital promises?
Georgina Maratheftis of techUK urges the new city-region chiefs not to neglect digital devolution
Why civil servants shouldn’t check their emails on holiday
Garry Graham of Prospect argues that cultivating a healthy work-life balance for employees will benefit the public sector
To make the most of new technology, the NHS needs a cultural shift
The health service needs to make sure its people are geared up for the data-rich future, according to Afshin Attari of Exponential-e
Better data sharing could save lives
Ian Blackhurst of Northgate Public Services explains how effective collaboration between law enforcement, healthcare, education, and social services could help protect vulnerable citizens
FE colleges must embrace digital to remain relevant to learners
Colleges need to ensure they make a good digital first impression, or risk seeing students head elsewhere, argues Lucy Perkins of LDA
Government is merely flirting with digital – it’s time to commit
Nat Gross of industry body BIMA believes that all political parties must do more to ensure the UK remains at the digital vanguard