Departments that lag on FOI responses could be named and shamed
Information commissioner indicates that regulator intends to get tougher on enforcement in the coming months after noticing ‘slippage’ in release of data
NHSX unit launched to oversee digital, data and technology across health service
New organisation will take the lead on setting national NHS policy on tech, digital, and data...
Government data ethics body to focus on bias and micro-targeting
Chair of CDEI also encourages public sector to ‘use AI in ways that delight the citizen’
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UK’s longest motorway to get £900m tech upgrade
The M6 is to be fitted with sensors, cameras, and signs allowing motorway officers to manage traffic
Bradford to bring digitisation to registrar’s office
Council seeks to replace paper-based system
‘Software issue’ with supplier blamed for massive NHSmail outage
Health-service workers were shut out of their accounts for large parts of Saturday
PM says UK ‘not short of options’ despite EU satellite shutout
Theresa May says government will press ahead with development of sat nav system in light of continued impasse over UK’s involvement in Galileo programme
MI6 chief calls for tech-enabled ‘fourth-generation espionage’
In rare speech, top spy Alex Younger claimed that ‘the digital era has profoundly changed our operating environment’
Ten million people could get access to DWP pensions dashboards in 2019
Government publishes plans for online service
Scottish Government to explore construction of GOV.UK Pay alternative
Government to spend £300,000 building prototype of system that could handle both inbound and outbound payments
DCMS leader Sue Owen to step down
Permanent secretary of Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is to leave her post
Glasgow’s digital vision promises a citywide 3D strategy, online budget consultations – and an iPad for every child
Scotland’s largest city outlines plan to use technology to transform economy and public services
Reading council offers £92k for digital transformation leader
Local authority advertises what it claims is the ‘complete digital role’
Police chiefs team up with Cisco for officer cybersecurity training drive
Forces can sign up to send their officers on courses run by IT firm’s training scheme
NHS trusts given £16m to boost e-prescribing rollout
The government has provided funding to 13 trusts across England
Government turns to tech to tackle loneliness
First companies awarded funding through GovTech Catalyst programme
West Midlands gets £19m boost for plans to become ‘global leader’ in driverless cars
Money will be used to test technology on both ‘multi-lane highways and narrow country lanes’
Welsh Government recruits external experts for new ‘digital panel’
Group will advise on the use of technology in public-service delivery
Government expands Google partnership for SME export drive
Department for International Trade to work with internet giant to help small businesses cash in on overseas opportunities
DfE plans two-year project to fix ‘disjointed and confusing’ digital services
Supplier sought for £1.5m software-development deal
MPs seize Facebook documents for fake news investigation
A serjeant-at-arms was dispatched to a London hotel room to take papers believed to include emails from Mark Zuckerberg
NAO finds government smart meter rollout behind schedule as a million units 'go dumb'
BEIS-led rollout has focused too much on speed, auditors find
Government to trial self-driving buses
Pilot will take place on Fife-to-Edinburgh route
Government chief data officer job remains unfilled
Minister confirms that role is still vacant – nearly two years after the government announced its creation