A lot has been promised to the public on city devolution and the price of failure is high. Eddie Copeland, director of government innovation at Nesta, argues that joining up […]...
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NHS Digital boss Andy Williams resigns
The chief executive of the body helping drive forward the NHS’s digital transformation is to step down in March 2017, after three years at the helm....
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Watchdog tells Ealing to ‘toughen up’ on data protection
The London borough of Ealing has signed up to a series of measures to improve its data protection practices after a breach involving the loss of a set of court documents....
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Future parliament: How a change of scenery could encourage innovation
Could parliament’s move out of the 19th Century Palace of Westminster be used to embrace 21st Century technology? Rebecca Hill reports....
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GDS adds second DNS service after malicious attack affects GOV.UK
The government’s flagship GOV.UK site was affected by a global distributed denial of service attack on a third party company that also took out Twitter, Spotify and other sites last month....
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Government launches ‘digital trade hub’ in a bid to boost export market
The Department for International Trade has created a platform to help UK businesses get better export deals in a bid to meet trade targets....
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NHS mail system grinds to a halt after email list error
A bug in the NHS email system meant that 850,000 staff received a flurry of ‘reply all’ emails while others saw delays in their email accounts....
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Don’t let ‘perfect be the enemy of good’ on digital services, councils told
Local government risks being left behind on digital services if it focuses all its attention on digital inclusion, an event has heard....
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Department of Health offers £100,000 for ‘digital evangelist’
The Department of Health is seeking a deputy director of digital and technology strategy to help create a digital first healthcare system....
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GDS is being ‘slowly dismantled’, says outgoing BEIS digital recruiter
Central government’s digital agenda is being undermined by a lack of effective leadership and poor skills training for civil servants, according to the departing head of digital recruitment at the Department for […]...
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