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Department for International Trade floats £120k for new digital chief
New director of digital, data and technology skills expected to set future digital strategy in the department leading on post-Brexit trade deals
West of England to undertake innovation audit in bid to foster world-leading tech
Government-backed initiative aims to identify areas where region could become a global leader in science and technology
SMEs gain a greater share as Digital Marketplace spending tops £3bn
Government figures reveal that 48% of revenue has gone to smaller firms
Government confident Capita will not follow Carillion into disaster
Cabinet Office speaks out after Capita profit warning to assert that none of its suppliers ‘are in a comparable position to Carillion’
More than 100 file for divorce online in first week of trial service
Courts service extends trial of digital divorce offering
Solihull to create central cloud data store to help build better buildings
Council of West Midlands town looks to improve collaboration during design and delivery of construction projects
CCS aims to recover £220m with ‘no win, no fee’ spend analysis framework
Total of 19 suppliers picked across seven lots
Siloed data costing police hundreds of working hours each year – research
Study finds that a quarter of officers need to access six or more databases in working on a single case
Whitehall signs up to avoid all-male tech shortlists
All government departments will sign the Tech Talent Charter, including a pledge to submit anonymised diversity data
DfT plans digital traffic accident reporting services for police and public
Department for Transport kicks off 12-week consultation process
Government recruits for ‘public face’ of AI
BEIS and DCMS seeking head for new jointly run Office for Artificial Intelligence
New cybersecurity regulators to be given power to fine critical services providers £17m
Organisations offering water, energy, health, or transport services must implement effective preventive measures or face serious consequences
Leeds seeks £30m IT hardware partner
City’s NHS and local-government bodies team up to put together framework for wide range of client computing, telecoms, and security hardware
Civil-service pay reforms could allow Whitehall chiefs to put a premium on tech skills
Cabinet Office publishes document outlining plans to allow higher pay scales for ‘market-facing’ professions
‘Every transaction we move online can save £7.40 for front-line services’ – Dundee City Council
Local authority unveils ambition to ‘become a digital council by 2020’
Government publishes Digital Charter to promote ‘same rights and behaviour online as offline’
Document lays out six guiding principles and seven programmes of work
Whitehall should embrace, not fear automation, says civil service CEO
John Manzoni tells civil servants that use of RPA could create more time for work with customers
NHS to trial depression app
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends Deprexis technology for clinical trial
Operations postponed and ‘backlog’ warning issued following two NHS outages
Manchester network and Welsh datacentres suffer simultaneous downtime
HMRC to migrate users to new bulk data transfer service by end of February
Details of new, souped-up digital service revealed
Lancashire Constabulary launches Alexa skill
New voice-activated app will provide community updates and circulate missing and wanted persons information