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Paul Lipman suggests that local government organisations should look to the cloud to address growing security challenges.

Andrew Hawkins says the new role for GDS may prove less significant for local government ICT than other measures in the Budget.

Nicky Stewart takes aim at critics of Alex Holmes at the Government Digital Service, who recently announced the government is moving away from the tower model for running ICT services.

For the first time, the public sector is nosing ahead of private firms in some areas of digital technology, according to Ross Mason.

Tom Underhill on why public sector organisations are increasingly moving their data storage to the UK.

The G-Cloud framework must not lose sight of its core messaging when it comes to driving good cloud policies and practices, according to Peter Groucutt.

So the government is to retain agile services on the Digital Marketplace after all. But, even with this last-minute reprieve granted, the whole episode begs numerous questions, says Harry Metcalfe.

Ensuring the data and analytics skills gap is addressed is the only way to ensure efficiencies will be achieved by the public sector, according to Simon Dennis.

Harry Metcalfe on what is driving the groundswell of opinion among SMEs that the Digital Services Framework is deeply flawed.

How the public sector can benefit from new approaches to flexible working.

Some new rules can make agile development in government an even bigger success story, says Richard Stobart.

A data loss prevention programme is vital for public sector organisations to keep themselves safe from hackers, according to Lior Arbel.

Phil Gibson hopes the government’s new Public Services Network chief realises is not underestimating his task.

Phil Gibson, chairman of public services networks supplier body PSNGB, responds to the government’s extension of the current PSN connectivity and services frameworks due to delays in its replacement.

Pedro Bustamante from web security firm Malwarebytes calls for better education about security threats for public sector ICT staff.

Senior managers in the public sector need to take social media more seriously, says professor Zahir Irani.

On the eve of the Labour Party’s Digital Government Review final report, Julian David calls for politicians to increase the speed of public sector digitisation.

Neil Mellor says that new arrangements for suppliers’ self-certification do not mean that the public sector supply chain will become the Wild West.

Steve Shakespeare says cloud services offer councils the chance to deliver efficient, accessible, always-on services.