MPs maintain scrutiny of Cabinet Office FoI hub
Parliamentary committee takes steps to try and ensure independence and rigour of upcoming review
Home Office’s secretive anti-extremism comms unit signs £1m media monitoring deal
RICU facility signs two-year contract
DCMS seeks social media monitoring firm to help ‘build comprehensive picture of misinformation’
Department floats 10-month contract worth half a million pounds
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Immersive opera and audience analytics – government unveils digital culture vision
Royal Opera House and National Gallery sign up to technology programmes as DCMS publishes major policy paper
Local councils implore government to provide GDPR compliance funding help
Sector organisation writes to Matt Hancock and other MPs to express concerns
Public sector executive pay should be linked to cybersecurity
James Wickes of Cloudview believes regulators need to take steps to sharpen senior managers’ focus on cybersecurity
New cybersecurity regulators to be given power to fine critical services providers £17m
Organisations offering water, energy, health, or transport services must implement effective preventive measures or face serious consequences
Government publishes Digital Charter to promote ‘same rights and behaviour online as offline’
Document lays out six guiding principles and seven programmes of work
Nine in ten businesses and charities have done nothing to prepare for GDPR, government research finds
DCMS study finds majority of organisations in private and third sectors have never even heard of soon-to-be-implemented legislation
V&A museum mulls outsourced data-protection officer model ahead of GDPR
Art-and-design museum claims GDPR audit is well underway as it seeks market input on possible DPO-as-a-service implementation
Government’s top digital roles vacated in PM’s reshuffle
New jobs for former GDS minister Caroline Nokes and digital minister Matt Hancock, with no word yet on if they will be directly replaced and by whom
Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue to spend £30,000 to combat ‘misuse of social media’
Organisation puts out contract notice seeking provider of management tool for up to 25 Facebook and Twitter accounts
DCMS looks to help local radio get out of the analogue age
Consultation launched in a bid to support 400 community and small commercial stations in moving from analogue to DAB signals
National Infrastructure Commission urges government to lead the way on digital twin projects
Report also encourages the codification of data standards
National Army Museum to build six new interactive audiovisual exhibits
Museum seeks software supplier to create games and video platforms for £70,000 project as part of new exhibition to open in March
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
VisitBritain seeks SEO supplier to deliver multilingual marketing
Tourism agency turns to search-engine marketing to boost efforts to market the UK to travellers
Government opens up data on £100bn of annual grant awards
Publication of departmental information is intended to help design policy and prevent fraud
How The National Archives is digitising 1,000 years of history
Digital director John Sheridan tells PublicTechnology how new technology is changing not only how the UK’s official archive operates, but is altering the very nature of archiving
British Library turns to tech to manage 150m-item collection
Library puts out request for information from potential suppliers
Cabinet ministers head to Nordics and Asia to promote UK tech credentials
Karen Bradley and Matt Hancock dispatched on tech-centric trade missions
GDS pledges to address GOV.UK search and navigation issues
Fifth benchmarking exercise finds three core areas for improvement
Kew Gardens wants IT leader for ‘transformational improvements to technology services’
World-famous botanic gardens offering £70,000 for new head of IT infrastructure
Defra's Alison Pritchard joins GDS as chief operating officer
Vastly experienced civil servant replaces Alex Holmes as COO of Whitehall digital body