Government dedicates £1.3bn to attracting top science and tech talent
Measures unveiled in bumper research funding package include 100 additional AI PhDs
Matt Hancock urges schools to ban phones
Culture secretary says evidence shows that outlawing the use of mobiles is effective
Whitehall tech policy advisor rocks up on Love Island
Civil servant Zara McDermott has joined the ITV reality show
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GDS offers £100k each in hunt for deputy director digital double act
Organisation looking for leaders to fill two senior roles
PAC warns of ‘catastrophic effects’ if HMRC is not given extra funding for customs platform
MPs call on the Treasury to devote enough cash to ensure that both the outgoing system and its replacement can handle post-Brexit requirements
Extra 1,000 tech visas and £20m govtech fund among PM’s measures to boost UK digital sector
Government details a range of programmes designed to promote the UK technology sector
Glasgow aims to transform digital services with seven-year CGI deal
Scottish city announces big plans to ramp up online transactions, bring analytics into healthcare, and issue all children aged nine and over with tablets
DWP spends £50k on ‘financial accounting made easy’ software
Department invests in company search tool on behalf of Pensions Regulator
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
The digital skills gap must be closed to make smart cities a reality
An investment in skills is needed to create the cities of the future, argues James Milligan of Hays Digital Technology
GDS readies new centralised design platform for GOV.UK services
New offering, which is entering beta testing, will combine elements of current platforms such as the Service Manual and GOV.UK Elements
Report urges government to retrain a million industrial workers in digital tech
BEIS-commissioned study claims embracing industrial digitalisation technology could boost economy by £455bn in next 10 years
Technology will augment - not replace - public-service professionals
Nesta’s Hasan Bakhshi and Eddie Copeland examine the impact on the UK public sector workforce of a range of global trends
Public Health England plans hiring spree to roll out ‘major programme’ of digital services
Agency has nine posts on offer at the moment, with more to follow in the coming weeks
Derbyshire looks to live online lessons for pupils outside mainstream education
County council seeks supplier of live and asynchronous web-based classes for eight-year engagement
Major report urges government to create dedicated AI programme for public sector
A government-commissioned study makes 18 recommendations, including asking GDS to help create a scheme to boost public sector use of artificial intelligence
'Officers can spend thousands more hours out in the community' – inside Manchester police's mobile revolution
Chief superintendent of information services transformation tells PublicTechnology how tech has allowed GMP to do 8,000 hours of extra policing and become 'the only force in the country' to equip officers with devices for both personal and police use
Walsall schools to deploy electronic pupil education plan
West Midlands town looks to acquire £70,000 software platform for teachers to track children’s progress
A checklist for shared-services success
Jason Laroche of Arvato offers his to-do list for local authorities wishing to get the most out of shared-services engagements
Socitm and Eduserv launch shared services audit tool for councils
Online platform will help assess readiness for new engagements and performance of existing deals
Digital included in first wave of T level courses
New technical qualification to be taught from 2020 will be ‘as rigorous and respected as A levels’, education secretary pledges
Social networks could face same regulation as news sites, government says
Prime minister’s spokesperson claims government is examining ‘the role Google and Facebook play in the news environment’
Do Aylesbury Vale and Alexa have the ‘skill’ for better services?
Aylesbury Vale council’s IT lead Maryvonne Hassall talks to Gill Hitchcock about the potential gains – and pitfalls – of adopting AI in local government
Newcastle University to issue digital degree certificates
Institution signs £150,000 contract for electronic issuance of various academic documents