Scottish Government seeks IT services; Hackney council looks for personnel and payroll services; plus – the latest UK contract awards....
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Government sets out plans to tackle infrastructure waste
A report published by the Cabinet Office on the under-use of publicly-owned telecommunications and digital infrastructure highlights how Government plans to make better use of its capacity to improve connectivity […]...
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Collaborative service development group launches
A consortium of councils and business has been launched in the Leeds City region to collaborate on the design and delivery of new, efficient public services based on open data. […]...
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Estonian Government learns from UK’s ‘user focus’
A digital leader from the Estonian Government has told Public Technology that his Government can learn “how to be relentless in user focus” from the UK government ahead of his […]...
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Report highlights UK public sector cloud concerns
Nearly half of all public sector respondents to a survey on cloud computing have responded that security is their highest concern. ...
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Weekly tenders update
View this week’s local authority tenders, brought to you by our sister site, publictenders.net. ...
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Council recruits Civica to enable staff ‘innovation’
Coventry City Council has agreed a three-year contract with Civica to improve IT support for its revenues and benefits function....
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Digital by Default survey findings
The most common hurdle to deployment of digital by default services is legacy systems, according to respondents of a recent survey from Xirrus. Duncan Fisken, VP, EMEA at Xirrus discusses the […]...
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Industry body launches plan to counter ‘fear of failure’
techUK has launched an initiative to create ‘meaningful engagement’ between technology companies and the public sector, to help overcome ‘a fear of failure’ it believes is prevalent....
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Digital eligibility checker project enters next phase
Leaders of a project that aims to automate public service eligibility checks to eliminate the need for paper evidence have begun talks with Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on taking the project forward....
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