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Think tank calls for urgent review of how blockchain could help – and hinder – police
The Police Foundation identifies various potential benefits and challenges of distributed-ledger technology
Leeds and Liverpool join Limerick and Las Vegas as signatories to smart-city manifesto
Global communications industry association gets wide range of public and private entities to sign up to 10-point plan
TfL revokes Uber’s taxi licence in London on claims the company’s software could block regulators and impede law enforcement
But taxi app hits back and announces intention to appeal immediately
From the people that brought you the Northern Powerhouse – could ‘Innovation South’ be the UK’s tech engine?
Government-commissioned report flags up the potential of the eight counties below London
DfE invests in cloud platforms and looks to build out DevOps credentials
Department awards duo of contracts designed to help it create and deploy digital services
The only way is digital – Essex County Council to set up mini-GDS
Plans to build 16-strong centralised team to head digital strategy
Prime minister tells tech giants to remove terrorist content within two hours or face penalties
Theresa May uses UN General Assembly address to urge Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to do more
GDS preps large-scale rollout of GovWifi and predicts it will ‘change the way civil servants work’
Wireless internet service passes beta assessment and is now available in more than 100 locations across the UK
Greater Manchester Police still has more than one in five PCs running Windows XP
Research finds widespread use of unsupported software in England’s second-biggest force
Police chief admits possibility of working with online vigilantes but says tech firms must do more on child-protection
Data shows evidence gathered by self-styled paedophile hunters is becoming increasingly prevalent in criminal cases as senior officer admits 'I am not winning that moral argument'
First trusts to adopt digital hospital-appointment booking unveiled as deadline looms to ditch paper system
Sherwood Forest and County Durham and Darlington trusts lead the way
Cabinet ministers head to Nordics and Asia to promote UK tech credentials
Karen Bradley and Matt Hancock dispatched on tech-centric trade missions
Attorney general to examine risks of ‘trial by social media’
Jeremy Wright unveils call for evidence after instances of online commentary obstructing the application of justice
Civil service’s major barriers to tech adoption refusing to budge, report finds
Study from techUK and Dods shows key obstacles becoming more – not less – entrenched
Start-up exec turned local councillor urges peers to follow his lead
Niraj Dattani of Harrow Council and Spacehive predicts London 2018 elections could see a number of candidates from the tech world
Digital chief lifts lid on how HMRC pulled off the biggest tax change in 70 years without anyone noticing
Interim CDIO Mike Potter also discusses how the department is leading the way on mobile apps and blockchain, and why he wants a tax service built around life events
HMRC nabs Microsoft bigwig Jacky Wright as new CDIO
Department celebrates appointment of ‘exceptional’ former BP and GE executive as new digital leader
Whitehall digital reform being slowly undone by ‘departmental barons’, warns Francis Maude
But civil service head Jeremy Heywood hits back and claims government departments are ‘sharply improving digital capacity’
Parties urged to review nomination process after all-male Science and Technology Committee backlash
Chair Norman Lamb writes to Labour and Tory whips to outline why lack of women would impede committee’s ability to work effectively
Foreign Office works with GDS to revamp digital services for UK citizens abroad
Government creates 229 dedicated pages for services in individual countries and streamlines embassy sites
Introducing the Harris T7 – the MoD’s new £1m bomb-disposal robot
Ministry announces major deal to acquire 56 specialised machines