‘These are fundamental to empowering individuals’ – ICO takes action against departments and councils over data requests
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HM Land Registry to smooth home-buying with digitisation
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Edinburgh seeks £12m support for digital inclusion and growth projects
Local authority makes bid for funding from central government
Local authorities and their suppliers must connect the digitally excluded
Various vulnerable groups are among those at risk of lacking the connectivity or skills to engage with public services, according to Graham Cutting of Cantium
Edinburgh app for reporting property issues expands to two more councils
Technology jointly developed by the local authority in the Scottish capital is to be adopted in two other areas of the country
DWP and Scottish Government in dispute over IT costs of welfare devolution
Authorities working to resolve disagreement concerning ‘digital investment activity’
Government launches online public vote to help choose HQ of Great British Railways
Public encouraged to submit their preference for location state-owned transport agency
Technology, transformation and talent: is the public sector meeting its biggest reform challenges?
Local and central government experts joined a recent PublicTechnology webinar discussion exploring strategies to modernise public services and their progress so far
Government sets up £20m compensation pot for victims who fought to expose Post Office IT scandal
Increased funding is set to more than double the money received by those who brought group legal action – with more support to follow
Government urged to commit to devolution to drive innovation and levelling-up
Think tank report identifies benefits of city mayors, but finds many local officials are frustrated with current interactions with Whitehall
NHS Covid app update expands symptom checklist and softens guidance for English users
Latest version of software removes suggestion users may have coronavirus and countdown clock – except for Welsh users, who are still told to isolated and get tested
Government to move 2,500 officials to ‘digitally enabled’ Manchester hub
The city centre facility will include hundreds of civil service posts relocated from London
Highlands and Islands gets IoT funding boost
Scottish Government supports scheme to fund firms’ investment in connected technologies
New Welsh Government operations chief to help drive transformation
Tim Moss announced as COO with remit to support three-year vision
Local government chiefs claim return to hybrid meetings would improve councillor diversity
County Council Network joins a list of bodies calling for reintroduction of legislation allowing remote participation
Cornwall explores tech revamp of council chamber
Local authority publishes RFI seeking information on possible implementation of a range of tech systems
Government warned it lacks insight on £10bn of local spending each year
Think tank identifies a lack of data on the delivery of local services
Cladding crisis: Data analytics deals to ‘secure increased funding’ from building firms as government bids to raise £5bn
Four consultancies brought in to provide investigative and analytical work as government demands property developers contribute £5bn to support repairs
Bournemouth council signs £150k deal for ‘bereavement software’
Tech tool will help citizens and deathcare professionals
Shetland fishers boosted by government investment in submersible imaging
Local development agency signs deal for new technology
London to build new citywide data hub
GLA is to redevelop Datastore platform to better enable data sharing and collation of information from new sources, such as APIs and IoT sensors
Digitally excluded facing ever ‘more acute’ disadvantages as some groups remain 60% offline
Although 94% of households now have the internet, people who are aged over 70, live alone and have a disability are far more likely to lack connection