Crawley’s digital chief on why personalisation matters
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Watford innovation competition identifies tech solutions to service challenges
Local council invests £30,000 with technology companies
Walsall Council offers £90k for newly created role as digital and transformation chief
Assistant director-level post comes with remit to further the authority’s use of user-centred service design
Finance leaders must help manage the digital hype
Effective digital transformation requires finance professionals, technologists, and senior management to work together, believes Don Peebles of CIPFA
GOV.UK boss Williams to become Croydon’s digital chief
Long-time civil servant to move into local government with role in his home borough
Essex resets digital transformation with multimillion pound programme of work
Authority awards a nine-month deal worth £1.9m to Socitm Advisory and launches £2m tender for a longer-term transformation partner
Southwark plans tools to monitor affordable housing
London borough commences development process for two digital services
Newcastle plans to become UK’s smartest city
Council’s cabinet to vote on proposal to work with a technology partner to realise the city’s ambitions
Birmingham seeks market input on Windows 10 migration
Council asks for suppliers to help shape procurement approach
Calderdale council seeks digital leader to help set five-year vision
Authority recruiting for senior manager to ‘find innovative digital solutions’
Government unveils £7.5m funding and training scheme to boost local authority digital work
MHCLG and GDS also publish ‘digital declaration’ for councils to sign up to
Waltham Forest recruits residents to test services
London borough builds 80-strong panel of citizens
Hackney looks to boost uptake of council rent service
Borough looks to mobile optimisation, personal notifications and possible implementation of GOV.UK Pay
Crawley council launches online service platform
Local authority opens new digital portal for citizens
Interview: London CDO Blackwell on why the capital must be ‘visionary, but pragmatic’
Two weeks on from the publication of the strategy to make London the world’s smartest city, the capital’s chief digital officer Theo Blackwell talks PublicTechnology through the plan and the key challenges ahead
Suffolk seeks technology chief to ‘challenge long-held values’
County council advertises CTO position which comes with a transformation brief and a salary of up to £87,000
Cambridge seeks mobile cashless parking technology
City’s local authority seeks provider for five-year contract
Twelve councils picked for digital social care pilots
A dozen local authorities have been chosen by NHS Digital and the Local Government Association to each receive up to £100,000 in funding
Jersey kicks off major restructure to create ‘modern, agile, and digital public service’
Island’s local authority recruits for a range of leaders to fulfil transformation plan
Boston to allow autonomous vehicle tests across city
Local company authorised to conduct trials on all roads throughout the largest city in Massachusetts
No way of determining value or efficacy of Universal Credit – but DWP has ‘no practical alternative’ but to press on, NAO concludes
Auditors acknowledge some progress has been made in the last five years and department insists programme is providing value
User-designed services and city-wide WiFi – London mayor’s plan to create the world’s smartest city
Sadiq Khan publishes smart-city strategy for the capital