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Zuckerberg snubs MPs again
DCMS committee continues to pursue Facebook CEO as chair says ‘we expected detail – we got excuses’
GDS seeks supplier to map PSN-migration best practice
Research programme to explore how moves to the internet can be made to best effect
Report claims facial recognition is 95% inaccurate
Police defends technology’s deployment as ICO increases scrutiny and campaign group calls for immediate cessation of use
Adzuna’s contract for government jobs service valued at £5.8m
Outsourced deal to replace Universal Jobmatch worth almost £3m a year, award notice reveals
Home Office to revamp communications infrastructure
Department issues contract notice seeking external supplier for two-year contract to install unified communications environment
Oracle-migration specialists sought for £500m police ERP framework
Potential 10-year deal will be open to all police and fire services and will feature up to 20 suppliers of back-office technology
GDS will remain within Cabinet Office, minister pledges
Oliver Dowden, whose ministerial brief contains responsibility for GDS, has claimed that the recent move of data policy to DCMS ‘should not be seen as a change of direction’
NHS Digital creates £1m adult social care fund
Local authorities given chance to bid for slice of funding
Report finds little progress in ensuring ethical standards among government outsourcers
Civil servants urged to find reserves of ‘moral courage’ to call out irregularities
Lincolnshire to create online directory of care services
Suppliers sought to build and support digital resource
Digital divorces rolled out nationwide
Successful pilot saw process expedited and number of errors greatly reduced
Government looks to tech firms to ‘tackle major social challenges of modern age’
Competition launched for IT and digital specialists to propose solutions to societal problems
NAO flags up ‘significant risks’ in £1bn courts digitisation programme
HM Courts and Tribunals Service remains confident it will deliver on reform plan, despite auditors warning of financial, technological, and legislative challenges
DWP offers £105k for leader to drive digital recruitment and development
Department advertises for vacant post as head of digital capability
Ordnance Survey seeks tech to ‘print any map, in any size, on any surface’
Mapping agency looks for external developer to help with project to replace printing platform
Defra preps ‘manual workarounds’ for major IT projects amid fears of no-deal Brexit
Department warns that, if the UK exits the EU without a trade deal, it may need to make some ‘clunky fixes’ to deliver necessary IT systems
Met Police picks Northgate to supply £44m IT system
Two-year process of picking supplier reaches fruition
‘Time and technology move on’ – GDS explains spend-control overhaul
Government Digital Service reveals new model was road-tested with four departments
Government explores UK-built satnav as Brexit threatens role in European project
Taskforce formed to ‘quickly develop’ alternative options after EC warns that the UK may be frozen out of secure elements of Galileo project
DWP seeks ‘innovative solutions’ for benefit-payment disruption
Department kicks off early-engagement exercise for new system of managing problems
NHS £150m Microsoft deal will banish Windows XP
Health secretary announces investments in cybersecurity, including pledge to install Windows 10 across the board by 2020