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Rob Driver of techUK looks at the big questions facing the government as it approaches the halfway point of its big-ticket digital and data plan

In his foreword to Policy Exchange report on digital government, former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude opines that ‘progress has slipped in recent years’

Last year thousands of IT deals were awarded to small local players, newly published figures indicate

Paul Maltby claims councils must first renew ageing infrastructure before realising the benefits of machine learning and automation 

Disaggregation work continues but CGI’s dominance is disrupted only by a fellow outsourcing giant

Select committee report calls for algorithms to be added to a ministerial brief, and urges departments to publicly declare where and how they use them

After ICO punishment, CPS claims new digital evidence-transfer system will mean such a breach can never happen again

Parliamentary select committees publish report revealing that fallen outsourcer sent a £160m ‘ransom note’ to the government days before its collapse

Research programme to explore how moves to the internet can be made to best effect

Outsourced deal to replace Universal Jobmatch worth almost £3m a year, award notice reveals

Civil servants urged to find reserves of ‘moral courage’ to call out irregularities 

Competition launched for IT and digital specialists to propose solutions to societal problems

Government Digital Service reveals new model was road-tested with four departments

Health secretary announces investments in cybersecurity, including pledge to install Windows 10 across the board by 2020

The government has published its AI Sector Deal, including details of major funding from the public, private, and research sectors

As long-term outsourcing arrangement is phased out, authority looks to engage with wide array of new suppliers

Select committee claims opening up public data could 'curb power of tech giants'

Statistics agency appeals from charity and private sector in promoting digital inclusion

Department recruits for leader of newly created unit dedicated to leading the data policy agenda

Peter Ford of Pegasytems believes Whitehall has both the necessary will and technology to achieve its ambitions of operating as a single entity

Cybersecurity unit director reveals how US intelligence agency is working to spread best practice by promoting openness and collaboration