The Home Office has created a deputy director position on its live services team to manage a new strategic service desk and develop a cyber security operations centre....
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GDS says its open source code guidance needs to be more joined up
The Government Digital Service is to start a user research project on the development and use of open source code in government, including plans to “fill in the gaps” in […]...
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Incompatible technology infrastructure ‘hampering data analysis’ in councils
Local government is struggling to make the best use of citizen data due to incompatible technology infrastructure, lack of budget and siloed data sources, according to a report....
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Government under pressure to publish transformation strategy before Christmas
The government’s chance of meeting its self-imposed deadline of publishing the transformation strategy before Christmas have once again narrowed as critics accuse ministers of trying to “sneak it out” as […]...
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AWS becomes latest cloud services provider to open UK region
Amazon Web Services has this week opened its first London region, joining Microsoft and IBM in boosting its UK-based cloud data centre offering and aiming at securing public sector customers....
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Councils’ building control pages written for ‘professionals’ and risk ‘alienating’ residents
Less than half of UK local authorities’ websites have good or very good information for people planning to carry out a building project – and some are using web pages […]...
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Social impact in the spotlight: Why the public sector must embrace collaborative platforms
Public services are in for a tough decade, facing constrained budgets and political upheaval. But Nesta’s Matt Stokes argues that governments must take advantage of the collaborative economy to change […]...
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G-Cloud sales near £1.6bn as proportion of SME sales remain stable
The latest figures on the government’s cloud procurement framework G-Cloud show that just over half of all sales are to smaller companies – a figure that has remained largely unchanged […]...
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GDS boss Cunnington reveals biggest challenge of 2017 – and his penchant for festive beer
The Government Digital Service’s director general Kevin Cunnington has offered PublicTechnology’s sister publication Civil Service World an insight into his goals for next year, taken a look back on 2016 – and spilled the beans […]...
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GDS rolls out single government WiFi service
A secure cross-Whitehall WiFi service will be available in government buildings in early 2017 as part of private beta testing, the Government Digital Service has announced....
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