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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West Sussex council launches investigation after publishing vulnerable citizens’ details online
Local authority disclosed names 1,400 of disabled people and their carers in now-removed spending data spreadsheet
GDS focuses on staff mental health with range of initiatives
Organisation takes various steps to help employees support themselves and each other
DCLG cybersecurity leader urges councils to prepare for inevitable election attacks
Department’s cybersecurity leader urges councils to put electoral staff through cybersecurity training
Manchester shakes up security as increased use of SaaS forces it to ‘think differently’
Council deploys hosted IAM in three-year six-figure deal with local IT company
Warwickshire County Council to build online platform for public consultations
Local authority picks G-Cloud supplier Delib for three-year contract
Cambridgeshire County Council picks partner for £2m Microsoft rollout
Authority to extend Enterprise Agreement for software licences by three years
Start-up exec turned local councillor urges peers to follow his lead
Niraj Dattani of Harrow Council and Spacehive predicts London 2018 elections could see a number of candidates from the tech world
The three biggest barriers to digital transformation in local government today
Suraj Kika of Jadu looks at what is stopping local authorities from investing in digital services
Home Office puts up £75k salaries for new cloud and end-user-computing leaders
Two senior technology posts on offer at central government department
A hundred days in, are the new metro mayors keeping their digital promises?
Georgina Maratheftis of techUK urges the new city-region chiefs not to neglect digital devolution
Canterbury raises its barriers to digital delivery
Peter Davies, Canterbury City Council’s head of digital transformation, talks to Gill Hitchcock about cloud, SaaS, big data, and delivering 85% of services digitally by 2019
Manchester looking for proposals for smart city pilots
The CityVerve initiative is looking for ideas for digital transformation projects to improve public services in the city centre
Ordnance Survey data chief: ‘I don’t want Google to run the country – but that doesn’t mean I don’t want their innovation’
Caroline Bellamy reveals why collaboration – with both public and private institutions – is the watchword
Ordnance Survey releases database of every green space in England, Scotland, and Wales
Comprehensive map allows public to locate parks, children's play areas, playing fields and more, and use the data to create business ventures
Pendle Borough Council hatches plan to digitise 2/3 of citizen transactions within five years
North west council signs £54m 10-year contract with outsourcer Liberata to drive digital transformation agenda
Government scraps tax on fibre investments
New bill offers full tax relief, saving businesses an estimated £60m
One in three PCCs overlook online fraud in police and crime plans - report
Report from National Audit Office claims public sector must do more to combat problem
‘More than an acronym’: Authorities set out plans for a London Office of Technology and Innovation
Scoping exercise launched for an organisation to cut down duplication and add value to a tech ecosystem that ‘drifts too readily’ towards tech solutions in search of problems
Councillors aren’t ‘digital dinosaurs’ - but have yet to speak with one voice
Camden councillor Theo Blackwell’s research finds most councillors are positive about technology but warns that delivery will lag behind without a clear framework for transformation
Political upheaval, Blockchain and data protection: What does 2017 have in store for tech?
As the New Year approaches, PublicTechnology takes a look at what we might expect in the world of digital government in 2017.
Scottish government offers £92,500 for CDO to oversee benefits devolution
The Scottish government is advertising for a chief digital officer for social security for the second time this year as it gains control of benefit systems.