SMEs win £1bn less government business in FY17 as proportion of spending drops for second year in succession
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Buckinghamshire appoints digital leader to work across local government and NHS bodies
Balvinder Heran will serve as ICT director for county council, NHS trust, and clinical commissioning group
HMRC scam website crackdown ‘saves public £2.4m’
Department successfully challenges ownership of more than 100 spoof domains
Waltham Forest launches Twitter chatbot for fly-tipping reports
Residents of London borough offered new channel to contact council about environmental issues
Lack of public support for AI risks ‘concerted backlash’, study suggests
Report from RSA finds that most people oppose use of automated decision-making in various areas of public service
Leicester City Council to roll out body-worn cameras to deter assaults on frontline staff
City looks for supplier to provide as many as 200 devices to record incidents
Think tank calls for GDS to move into DCMS
In his foreword to Policy Exchange report on digital government, former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude opines that ‘progress has slipped in recent years’
Online service for paying car tax and insurance fines goes live
DVLA platform given thumbs-up after beta stage in which almost £2m was collected
Collaboration, data, connectivity, skills, and ethics – London CDO previews five core policy areas of smart-city plan
Theo Blackwell discusses how the soon-to-be-published Smarter London Together strategy document will promote common standards and skills, and help councils use planning powers to promote connectivity
‘The death ray was optional’ – what public-service robots looked like in 90s
Hospital shines a light on long-forgotten tale of its ‘most unusual employee’
HMRC cites success of automated telephony despite criticism of increased call-waiting times
Figures show a rise in time taken to answer calls, but department claims time spent in automated platform is ‘valuable’
CCS starts building first Crown Marketplace portals
Supply-teaching and facilities-management frameworks will be among first to be hosted on new web store, as procurement agency also looks to refresh underlying e-sourcing technology
Loughborough University seeks £1m supercomputer
Institution issues prior information notice announcing imminent replacement of existing Hydra platform
Government seeks tech firm to trace every packet of cigarettes sold in the UK
HMRC seeks to appoint ‘ID issuer’ to comply with EU legislation and tackle £2bn annual tax gap caused by illicit tobacco trade
DfT seeks open data champion to lead new unit
Department signals intent to make better use of data as role as head of nascent team is advertised
MPs label Home Office DBS digitisation programme ‘a masterclass in incompetence’
Failure of project to improve safeguarding checks also casts doubt on department’s capacity to successfully deliver the Emergency Services Network, report finds
DWP to roll out home-grown customer information platform to 80,000 civil servants
New application, which was developed internally, will ultimately run in AWS environment
Scottish SMEs swipe three in five public sector contracts
Last year thousands of IT deals were awarded to small local players, newly published figures indicate
MHCLG digital chief: ‘I want us to be proud plumbers’
Paul Maltby claims councils must first renew ageing infrastructure before realising the benefits of machine learning and automation
NHS kicks off £4m digitisation of pension scheme
Supplier sought for two-year project to provide health-service workers and employers with digital platform
Full-fibre rollout will sweep through two million properties each year, chancellor pledges
Philip Hammond vows that every building in the UK will have access to an FTTP network within 15 years
CPS awards £5m PC-support deal to Wipro
Disaggregation work continues but CGI’s dominance is disrupted only by a fellow outsourcing giant