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GDS begins online user monitoring to improve GOV.UK performance
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Vaccine passports pose discrimination and data protection risks, MPs find
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Court judgments to be published on single website
Government claims moving information to National Archives site is ‘boost for open justice’
Government pledges to ‘set requirement to share data across departments’
Reform plan stresses ambition to improve use of tech and data
Cabinet Office spends £4.7m on Microsoft licensing deal
Contract signed under terms of public sector-wide MoU
NHS app: Government considers vaccine-status options for clinical-trial participants
Thousands of citizens vaccinated as part of research schemes currently need to request a letter to demonstrate that they have been vaccinated
London schools seek £50m antivirus partner
London Grid for Learning floats potential nine-year deal
Government facing legal challenge as DCMS admits use of automatically deleting messages
Campaign groups Foxglove and The Citizens to launch court case in two weeks if practice is not stopped
DVLA takes advantage of government MoU to keep Microsoft in cloud mix
Deal signed under public sector-agreement put in place last year
Home Office second perm sec to focus on ‘transformation of capabilities’
Tricia Hayes takes on number-two role
HM Passport Office picks Atos for £20m five-year digital support deal
Home Office agency to work with French IT heavyweight
Scotland appoints leaders for AI strategy
Thirteen-strong team of tech experts brought together
‘We are forcing ourselves to differentiate on quality’ – government commercial chief on social-value buying rules
Gareth Rhys Williams says new guidance will mean that ‘we don’t give everyone eight out of ten’
NHS spends £2.7m on extension to system capturing patient data from vaccine centres
Platform covers the collection of both clinical and non-clinical information
Oil and mining exec Mackenzie picked to head UK Research and Innovation
Former BP and BHP senior manager chosen as new boss of research funding body
Website aims to reimagine citizens’ relationship with land
Scottish Land Commission opens new digital platform
NHS Digital postpones plans to gather GP patient data after criticisms over transparency
Commencement of GPDPR pushed back by two months
Shredded government docs turned into toilet paper
Contract for secure disposal signed with social enterprise
GDS signs £5m contract extensions with Verify partners to support new sign-ups until April 2022
Deals awarded to Post Office and Digidentity also include the transfer of data to government
Cabinet Office mulls future civil service homeworking arrangements
Unions counsel against attempts to instigate ‘big bang’ return to offices
DCMS study flags up potential of online safety tech market
Government-commissioned report finds growth in number of companies and sector revenues
Whitehall procurement pros told to look beyond lowest bid
New guidance urges buying teams to prioritise social value