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Between January and May, amount of calls answered within five minutes dropped from 44% to 3%
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GDS agrees partnership with Polish counterpart
GovTech Polska signs MoU with UK digital agency
ICO strategy focuses on public awareness and FOI reform
Regulator publishes Openness by Design three-year plan
Law to make electric vehicles noisier comes into effect
Legislation is designed to improve safety, particularly for visually impaired pedestrians
‘Mission accomplished’ – departing chief Cunnington reflects on GDS achievements
Increasing capability and diversity are among the highlights picked out from three years in the hot seat
Home Office leads state-sector Amazon spending
Union criticises government’s £46.9m spent with supplier in 2018
Ministry of Justice sets minimum security standards for AWS
Users of S3 storage warned against allowing public access, to tackle ‘leaky bucket’ risk
DCMS and Cabinet Office to create joint Digital Identity Unit
Work also begins on developing a framework for identity products after Verify enters private ownership
Interview: HMRC digital chief Jacky Wright on insourcing, inclusivity, and the ‘teething pains’ of transformation
PublicTechnology talks to the departmental CDIO about her work to transform the working practices and service delivery of the UK tax authority, and why improving diversity starts with leaders who are self-aware
Innovation Strategy pledges cross-government plan to ‘tackle legacy technology’
Other initiatives unveiled in hotly anticipated strategy include pledge to send more civil servants on private-sector secondment
5G will have ‘no negative effects on public health’, says digital minister
Margot James claims research has found no danger in new network
London NHS trusts launch £3bn mega-framework for IT and services
Contract will cover a comprehensive range of products and consultancy
Scottish digital sector attracts strong foreign investment
US leads the way as tech projects attract cash
The cloud community: adoption of the cloud in local government
Sharon Hobson of Riverbed explains why the key to justifying an investment in cloud technology is visibility of network performance
Councils, schools and universities given option to buy goods via Amazon in £400m deal
Four-year framework gives option of establishing Amazon Business account
Huawei and 5G – the five big questions
A month on from the revelations about the Chinese vendor’s potential involvement in the UK’s 5G network, PublicTechnology examines the key issues
UK ranked second in global government AI league table
Singapore nabs top spot in Government AI Readiness Index
NHS seeds £50m robotic surgery framework
Procurement body begins market research ahead of planned contract launch next year
Lessons have been learned from troubled Capita recruitment contract – MoD
Department insists improvements are being made in its response to MPs’ report