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Mayor launches £7m digital-skills scheme for women and BAME Londoners
Sadiq Khan unveils Digital Talent Programme to help plug the capital’s skills gap and address issues of underrepresentation
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LGA helps councils fight fake news
Local Government Association issues advice to citizens
BSI works with libraries to offer online standards database
Libraries to be offered discounted version of standards body’s registry to help support local SMEs
Barnsley kicks off early-engagement exercise for digital-mobility plans
Local authority issues call for input from potential suppliers
Government agreement to see church spires used to boost rural broadband
Church of England, DCMS, and Defra sign accord to improve connectivity
Mansfield seeks £50k partner for digital transformation
District council looks for specialist firm to help set agenda
Kingston upon Thames plans digital platform to connect citizens to community groups and activities
Borough issues advance notification of Connect Well Kingston tool designed to promote wellbeing and help residents meet new people
West Midlands seeks chief digital officer
Metro mayor Andy Street seeks leader to front 'digital revolution'
South Gloucestershire’s digital-transformation plans take flight
Council signs deal with IT company to build customer platform
Suffolk looks to build public sector cloud for use across the East of England
County council claims project to build network for use across Anglia could be worth up to £75m
West of England to undertake innovation audit in bid to foster world-leading tech
Government-backed initiative aims to identify areas where region could become a global leader in science and technology
Solihull to create central cloud data store to help build better buildings
Council of West Midlands town looks to improve collaboration during design and delivery of construction projects
Whitehall signs up to avoid all-male tech shortlists
All government departments will sign the Tech Talent Charter, including a pledge to submit anonymised diversity data
Leeds seeks £30m IT hardware partner
City’s NHS and local-government bodies team up to put together framework for wide range of client computing, telecoms, and security hardware
‘Every transaction we move online can save £7.40 for front-line services’ – Dundee City Council
Local authority unveils ambition to ‘become a digital council by 2020’
Digital mortgages ‘should reduce risk of fraud’, claims business secretary
Digital signature process will use GOV.UK Verify and HM Land Registry’s own digital tools
Stockport to set up alliance of local bodies to tackle digital exclusion
Local council commits £120,000 set-up funding
Sedgemoor District Council lays out digital-transformation plans
Authority in Somerset looks to create a platform to improve services, create efficiencies, and enable data-sharing
Newcastle and Northumberland agreed shared-services plan for council tax and benefits
Establishing united team of 400 workers will save each authority an estimated £300,000 a year
NEC agrees £475m deal to buy Northgate Public Services
Japanese titan acquires UK government IT specialist