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Southend looks to smart-city future
Borough council looks to start process with three-month consultancy to develop strategy
Police ethics body to look at use of facial-recognition technology
London mayor Khan announces examination of digital policing to see if it affects principle of policing by consent
Government puts £25m into six 5G test bed projects
Schemes across the UK looking at 5G use cases including farming, tourism, and transport receive funding from government scheme
Open University seeks partner for £12m digital-transformation programme
University seeks to implement digital services to improve teaching and operations
Government to develop anti-online bullying strategy
Whitehall departments to work on promoting worldwide consensus on how to tackle problem
Southampton Solent University to build £4m maritime simulator
Institution seeks supplier to develop and roll out technology for training naval officers
‘Don’t break things’ and ‘progress is better than stasis’ – GDS sheds light on how the new Government Service Standard is shaping up
Whitehall’s central digital agency lifts lid on feedback gathered so far in its work to revamp the Digital Service Standard
Crawley seeks digital and transformation head
Borough council of West Sussex town offers £70k for top digital job
Immersive opera and audience analytics – government unveils digital culture vision
Royal Opera House and National Gallery sign up to technology programmes as DCMS publishes major policy paper
ONS extends open invite to potential new sources of data
Office for National Statistics is looking for partners in the private and public sector as it seeks to identify and make use of ‘data we don’t know about’
DWP seeks £140k digital delivery director to lead major projects
Role comes with a remit to oversee the development and rollout of a number of big-ticket products and services
Home Office picks Fujitsu to build and manage £28m biometrics platform
Tech and services titan beats trio of rivals to swipe major deal
G-Cloud 10 to open for business in June
CCS brings launch date forward by almost a year, with sources indicating Digital Outcomes deal may follow suit
GDS feels the love from civil service chief Manzoni
Whitehall leader praises achievements of digital agency and points to the crucial role it will play in delivering Brexit
Diane Abbott voices Labour concerns over Bitcoin’s ‘gigantic Ponzi scheme’
Shadow home secretary suggests party would look to better regulate cryptocurrency
Public invited to test government-backed driverless vehicles
The GATEway project enters its final phase
Local councils implore government to provide GDPR compliance funding help
Sector organisation writes to Matt Hancock and other MPs to express concerns
BEIS seeks head of DevOps to lead new desktop and cloud strategies
Department hiring for senior development role
RAF satellite aims to ‘beam video directly into the cockpit of fighter jets’
MoD invests £4.5m in space technology designed to help monitor and combat modern threat environment
Government must ensure digital services work on Samsung Internet
GDS adds technology to list of browsers on which services must be tested
Public sector research services DPS opened for business
Crown Commercial Service launches £170m contract allowing purchase of online and in-person research, as well as analytics