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Government-backed initiative aims to identify areas where region could become a global leader in science and technology

Council of West Midlands town looks to improve collaboration during design and delivery of construction projects

All government departments will sign the Tech Talent Charter, including a pledge to submit anonymised diversity data

City’s NHS and local-government bodies team up to put together framework for wide range of client computing, telecoms, and security hardware

Local authority unveils ambition to ‘become a digital council by 2020’

Digital signature process will use GOV.UK Verify and HM Land Registry’s own digital tools

Local council commits £120,000 set-up funding

Authority in Somerset looks to create a platform to improve services, create efficiencies, and enable data-sharing

Establishing united team of 400 workers will save each authority an estimated £300,000 a year

Japanese titan acquires UK government IT specialist

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

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

Authority issues call for bids via manufacturer lot on Technology Products 2 framework

Local MP Iain Stewart handed post working to drive tech innovation in the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor

Greater London Authority looks for supplier of system dynamics software

Sadiq Khan also hits out at central government’s lack of action

Space for Smarter Government Programme plans two one-day courses to introduce public servants to satellite technology

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

Vodafone's Mick Wayman opines that better co-operation with the non-profit sector could help save money and improve service levels

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

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