Royal Borough of Greenwich has become the latest local authority to launch a “smart city” strategy – aimed at delivering more efficient services to citizens....
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Bosses most confident on tech savings
Senior managers in local authorities have much greater confidence that technology can enable cost savings than the rest of their organisations’ staff, according to new research....
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Bracken gets the band back together
Former Government Digital Service chief Mike Bracken has hired a number of his former GDS colleagues to join him in his new gig at the Co-operative....
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Councils ‘itching’ for digital approach to voter registration
Tracking down potential voters via door-to-door canvassing may soon be a thing of the past, according to a government minister....
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Kent inks Agilisys digital services deal
Agilisys has won a £23m contract to supply Kent County Council with digital services and a contact centre for the next six years....
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Q&A: Charlie Anderson
We catch up with the head of ICT at Fife Council on the challenges he faces and his predictions for 2016....
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Sunderland shoots for £500m ICT deal
A proposed alternative service delivery model for ICT could eventually bring together £500m of spending across public bodies in the North East....
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Aspiring to change
Matt Foster explores how HMRC is looking to life after Aspire – the single biggest ICT deal in all of government....
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Labour attacks ‘haemorrhaging’ of digital talent
Six permanent members of staff have resigned from the Government Digital Service (GDS) since May, Matt Hancock has disclosed....
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GDS outlines local government aims
The Government Digital Service intends to use the next five years developing common tools which can be used to reduce duplicate technologies across central and local government....
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