The Royal Borough of Greenwich will take part in trials to collect data from driverless car technology from May....
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Blaneau Gwent to join shared ICT service partnership
Blaneau Gwent Council has agreed to merge its ICT services with an existing Welsh public sector partnership from April....
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Councils and citizens both stand to gain from ‘inclusive’ IT
With almost two-thirds of over-75s offline, Gill Hitchcock looks into why councils must put accessibility and channel choice at the heart of IT development...
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Councils slash surveillance spending, data reveals
Local authority spending on CCTV has reduced significantly over the past four years, but a report suggests technology is opening up new avenues for surveillance...
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Government Digital Service trials e-mail ‘assurance’ tool
A new tool has been developed to give public-sector workers more confidence that the e-mails they send and receive are secure...
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Watchdog warns government to improve fraud data
“Gaps and inconsistencies” in government data make it hard to work out the true scale of fraud in the public sector, according to the public spending watchdog....
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Met Police awards £250m hosting and end user services contracts
London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has awarded two separate ICT contracts worth a combined £250m to supplier CSC Computer Services....
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North East councils crowdsource ideas for digital strategy
Councils in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and Gateshead are looking for ideas to create a new digital strategy for the North East....
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Four-in-five London boroughs ban file sharing
Over three-quarters of London boroughs have implemented policies and procedures to prohibit the use of personal file sharing and sync solutions....
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Digital standard for local transactional services set for launch
A new draft digital standard for transactional services in local government is likely to be released for discussion later this week, PublicTechnology has learnt....
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