Local Digital Fund dishes out £1.25m to 16 councils in first investment round
One sixth of £7.5m available funding pot is allocated after first tranche of applications
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The art of designing a rational service for irrational taxpayers
Dacorum Borough Council in Hertfordshire has redesigned its council tax service to better work with ‘the quirks of how we actually think’. Gill Hitchcock finds out more
Driverless pods, smart sensors, and citizen apps – inside the plan to future-proof Milton Keynes
In a town gaining 40,000 extra citizens each decade, the council's strategy chief Geoff Snelson tells PublicTechnology why smart-city ideas and technology need to be an intrinsic part of planning for the short- and long-term future
Luton Council banks on ‘flexibility and functionality’ of hybrid laptops in £300k device refresh
Authority issues call for bids via manufacturer lot on Technology Products 2 framework
Government appoints champion to promote ‘UK’s answer to Silicon Valley’
Local MP Iain Stewart handed post working to drive tech innovation in the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor
GLA seeks provider to help analyse city-simulator exercises
Greater London Authority looks for supplier of system dynamics software
London mayor names and shames rogue landlords in new online database
Sadiq Khan also hits out at central government’s lack of action
UK Space Agency to offer public sector workers crash course in satellite applications
Space for Smarter Government Programme plans two one-day courses to introduce public servants to satellite technology
Hampshire County Council uses tech to tackle loneliness
Hampshire’s director of adults’ health and care Graham Allen talks to Gill Hitchcock about using IT to relieve loneliness among the county’s older population and where he finds inspirational digital ideas
Why the public sector should work more closely with charities
Vodafone's Mick Wayman opines that better co-operation with the non-profit sector could help save money and improve service levels
DCMS fund backs West Sussex £50m fibre framework
County council becomes one of the first recipients of money from government scheme as it looks for provider to roll out connections to public sector-owned sites over the next two decades
Why some UK local authorities are stuck in in a digital Stone Age
Ross Harling of Netitude lifts the lid on the findings of a study which shows UK councils are failing to recognise some major opportunities of digitisation
London boroughs, universities, and NHS trusts team up to share WiFi
An array of public-sector organisations have united to offer users ‘seamless’ connectivity
Geospatial Commission launched to 'turn government data into jobs and savings'
Open Data Institute among those to welcome creation of new body
Leicester to move electronic documents from central storage to line-of-business systems
Council appoints provider to convert many documents to PDFs
Children’s Commissioner to set up digital hub for children in care
Long-term goal is for site to operate as a social enterprise run by young care-leavers
Stoke council picks SCC for £8m four-year contract
Council awards IT supply and support deal to Birmingham-headquartered IT services heavyweight
‘Top-down approaches don’t work’ – LGA calls for digital devolution
Local authority membership body urges government to devolve the programme of work set out in the Industrial Strategy
DCLG to create central data pool to boost homebuilding
Communities secretary Sajid Javid claims department is working with the likes of the Land Registry and Ordnance Survey to collate information
West Midlands seeks start-ups to solve four key public-service challenges
Authority launches competition offering small tech firms £10,000 cash and three-month pilot project with access to data and mayoral feedback
London boroughs team up to roll out £1.7m hosted housing management platform
Wandsworth and Richmond pick Northgate to deliver software
Local Government Association calls for Budget to provide cybersecurity funding to councils
Membership body for local authorities bids for money from the Cabinet Office