Government reveals plans for £10m real-time roadworks info service
Service will launch to some local authorities and utilities firms in May 2019
Bristol examines options for revenue and benefits
Council to look at cloud, on-site and as-a-service options
HM Land Registry explores ‘data enrichment'
Agency engages with market for potential partners that can take names and addresses and derive...
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Departing DWP digital chief Prakash to take transformation role at British Gas owner
Mayank Prakash will lead digitisation of Centrica Consumer
PM says online bullying of teachers is ‘an issue we need to look at’
Theresa May suggests government will consider taking action on teachers and pupils who abuse teachers via social media
Universal Credit tech leader joins Home Office as CTO
Rob Thompson take position as department’s technology leader after four years at DWP
NHS Highland trials video GP service
Scottish Health Board is this week piloting the use of remote appointments for patients at a surgery in Wick
Hospital trials app for on-demand porters
Northwick Park Hospital in north-west London rolls out tablets and smartphones for staff to request porters
Government considers wide-scale rollout of cloud-based managed print
CCS and GDS begin market engagement to examine possible use of SaaS and managed print models
Government to raise £400m a year by slapping 2% ‘digital services tax’ on tech titans
Chancellor’s Budget pledges that new 2% tariff will be targeted at global giants – not domestic start-ups
GDS seeks head of campaigns
Salary of £60k on offer for professional to drive long-term comms projects
Ill-conceived business cases stymieing government digital transformation, IfG report finds
Think tank claims that Treasury guidance encourages ‘unreasonable certainty’ when projects are launched
Wanted: hacking hobbyists and acronym avoiders – how to land a digital job at DWP
Ahead of plans to ‘hire hundreds’ of techies, the department has revealed the secret to what it looks for in a CV
Home Office awards £8m biometrics deal to Mastek
Indian tech services firm adds application development contract to the £5m DevOps and support deal it won earlier this year
Select committee: ‘Policing’s lack of digital capability is now a systemic problem’
MPs on the Home Affairs Committee have called for more funding and leadership after publishing damning appraisal
GDS offers £90k a head for squad of cyber and privacy professionals
Four roles on offer in organisation’s assurance and privacy unit
Finance regulator preps for major cloud migration
The Financial Conduct Authority is to launch a four-year framework for technology and services to support a move to cloud computing
Border IT systems face no-deal Brexit threat
National Audit Office warns that 11 of the 12 IT systems in use at the UK border are at risk of being unready if the country leaves the EU without a deal
Public Health England puts up £2m to explore ‘novel ways’ to use digital
Government agency kicks off two-year project to explore potential ‘digital interventions’
DWP calls hack to create digital solutions that help vulnerable people access services
Hack the North 2.0 will bring together volunteers from many digital specialisms - and the best ideas could be made into public services
Government bans use of phrase ‘fake news’
Measures to tackle disinformation online also include new powers for ICO, and partnerships with tech firms to trial automated identification methods
Inquiry finds Universal Credit increases victims' vulnerability
Move to single household payments was "retrograde" and "damaging" say MPs
Manchester gets behind digital skills with £4m boost
Digital businesses among those to benefit from schemes aimed at creating a "pipeline of talent that meets employer needs"
Cyber security centre reveals active defence of government tech
National Cyber Security Centre annual report reveals it has dealt with 1,100 cyber attacks in its first two years