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Scotland launches digital venue check-in
Service can be accessed via dedicated app or using device camera
NHS Covid app tapped Accenture for £6.5m consultancy deals
Details revealed of two short-term support contracts
DCMS adds Deliveroo chief and cooking-sauce entrepreneur to boardroom menu
Department orders in two food-focused techies
Minister urges officials to get involved in Dragons’ Den for data ideas
Julia Lopez invites civil servants to put forward proposals for potential £50k support
Immigration minister insists high-tech Brexit passports are ‘rigorously tested’
Security-focused documents are put through their paces in exercises designed to mimic 10 years of travel
Met Office and Microsoft’s £1bn machine to be ‘world’s most powerful weather computer’
Platform to launch next summer
PublicTechnology research: five things we learned about the future of digital government
A recent study finds that the pandemic has boosted budgets – but legacy tech remains a big barrier to progress
MI5 warns of thousands of attempts to spy on civil servants via ‘malicious’ online profiles
Officials advised that hostile states use LinkedIn and other sites
Downing St insists £2.6m high-tech media room will still be ‘very useful’ despite cancellation of briefings
Plan for White House-style press conferences axed – but not before expensive refurb
HMRC confirms new leader for £1bn Making Tax Digital scheme
Joanna Rowland will oversee planned expansion of programme across VAT, income tax and corporation tax
Student Loans Company adds Capgemini to ‘strategic partner’ base in £150m deal
Public body awards seven-year contract to consultancy
Huawei denies spying on Dutch PM
Leaked report suggests Chinese tech firm had access to calls made by large swathes of the population of the Netherlands
Defra revamps recruitment to reduce reliance on consultants
Digital chief Harriet Green tells PublicTechnology Live event that department has focused on specialisms, rather than the generalist skills the civil service recruitment process is designed to find
Trials to monitor smart meter data in elderly care
Scottish institutions to work with consenting older citizens to track energy usage
Two thirds of workers did not work from home at all in 2020, ONS data finds
Last year saw a big rise, but comfortable majority still work on-site
Ministers encourages citizens concerned over Facebook leak to visit Have I Been Pwned? website
Up to 11 million UK accounts recently saw personal information published online
Hancock a shareholder in family document digitisation firm that won NHS deals
DHSC says health secretary ‘acted entirely properly’
HMRC spends £3m on ‘trace and investigate’ software to provide UK citizen data
Connexus technology will provide officials with access to a wide range of personal and business information
Atomic energy body invests in £3m haptic robots
Technology must be suitable for use in nuclear environments
Test and Trace hired £40,000-a-day digital team after failure ‘to source civil servants with these skills’
Procurement data reveals consultancy brought in to cover six-month drive to recruit specialists