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Infrastructure and Projects Authority – which helps departments ensure delivery of major technology programmes – appoints Alison Baptiste

Assistant director-level post comes with remit to further the authority’s use of user-centred service design

Authority looks for senior manager to spearhead transformation

GDS-based post comes with remit to adapt service standards and best-practice guidelines

Two weeks on from the publication of the strategy to make London the world’s smartest city, the capital’s chief digital officer Theo Blackwell talks PublicTechnology through the plan and the key challenges ahead

Civil servant Zara McDermott has joined the ITV reality show

Theo Blackwell discusses how the soon-to-be-published Smarter London Together strategy document will promote common standards and skills, and help councils use planning powers to promote connectivity

Philip Hammond vows that every building in the UK will have access to an FTTP network within 15 years

Recently appointed boss Ian Bell discusses his mission to ‘repair trust’ in the company while helping forces get the most out of technology

Senior managers sought for Whitehall department and arm's-length agencies

Existing operations chief to switch to post heading up organisation’s Brexit team

Role comes with remit to spearhead strategic vision and oversee rollout of Government Transformation Strategy

Sheila Flavell of FDM Group explains why diversity needs to be much more than just a tick-box exercise

Department also claims that drive to automate is employee-led

Head of government buying agency will exit in July to take post with Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply

Head of the watchdog, Elizabeth Denham, says ICO will be expected to do “more of everything” as strict new data compliance law comes down the track

Department seeks digital specialist to help it prepare for public beta launch within three months and pass assessment by the end of October

First set of annual accounts for BPDTS Ltd reveal that company delivered more than £12m of IT services to department in first four months of existence

Whitehall siloes should be broken by creating a centralised body to collate and oversee the use of data, believes Johan Hogsander of Transform

Current academy leader Sweeney reveals impending move to Australia, as skills and training organisation also lifts lid on plans to collaborate more with other governments

Fewer than one in seven digital specialists to feature in annual rundown of Whitehall’s biggest earners are women, as NHS and Network Rail roles dominate