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BBC issues RFI for potential refresh of legacy comms environment
Publicly owned broadcaster asks for market input
Liam Maxwell: ‘Transformation is nothing to do with tech – it is about a change of business model’
Government's national technology adviser discusses why getting digital reforms through the machinery of government may require some help from Jason Bourne
User-designed services and city-wide WiFi – London mayor’s plan to create the world’s smartest city
Sadiq Khan publishes smart-city strategy for the capital
MEPs call for suspension of Privacy Shield unless US complies with data-protection agreement
Cambridge Analytica revelations show need for ‘better monitoring’ of data-protection measures
Struggling to sleep? This app will read out GDPR legislation to aid your slumber
Calm has turned a section of the 57,509-word EU document into a sleep-inducing audio book
National Crime Agency offers £90,000 in search for cybercrime commander
Deputy director role comes with a remit to lead law-enforcement’s response to cybercrime
Interview: government DDaT skills chief on her work to recruit and develop digital leaders
PublicTechnology talks to the head of capability for the civil service’s DDaT profession, Holly Ellis, about how the mantra of ‘do things once’ is being applied to help departments hire and train digital talent
Cambridgeshire sets aside £11m to increase superfast broadband availability to 99%
County council issues contract notice seeking telecoms firms to fulfil stage four of Connecting Cambridgeshire project
The public sector must be transparent on data use to gain citizens’ trust
While GDPR is right to provide individuals with greater control over how their information is used, the benefits of sharing data should not be overlooked, believes Rose Lasko-Skinner of Reform
Government seeks tech firm to trace every packet of cigarettes sold in the UK
HMRC seeks to appoint ‘ID issuer’ to comply with EU legislation and tackle £2bn annual tax gap caused by illicit tobacco trade
MPs label Home Office DBS digitisation programme ‘a masterclass in incompetence’
Failure of project to improve safeguarding checks also casts doubt on department’s capacity to successfully deliver the Emergency Services Network, report finds
Scottish SMEs swipe three in five public sector contracts
Last year thousands of IT deals were awarded to small local players, newly published figures indicate
GDPR: how did we get here, and what on earth happens next?
We are now, at last, all living in a GDPR world. PublicTechnology asks what – if anything – that means, and looks back on the journey we took to get here
MHCLG digital chief: ‘I want us to be proud plumbers’
Paul Maltby claims councils must first renew ageing infrastructure before realising the benefits of machine learning and automation
Home Office rolls on with £14m project to replace police number-plate database
New hub for ANPR data to be used by police forces across the country
AI will save lives of 22,000 cancer patients a year, prime minister announces
Theresa May uses speech in Macclesfield to announce plans to work with technology sector and NHS to improve diagnoses
We all have something to hide – and the government must let us
The public sector needs to be careful it does not fall foul of citizens’ growing disquiet about how their data is used and by whom, according to PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall
IR35 reforms have had ‘little impact on projects or vacancy-filling’, says HMRC
Changes to the legislation made last year – which had been expected to have a big impact on IT contractors – have also brought in £410m in extra revenue, the tax agency claims
The library where councils can borrow the building blocks of a ‘Lego’ government
A number of large local authorities have already signed up to a new library for sharing service-design templates. PublicTechnology finds out more
DCMS picks online hate speech, sexting, and social media in politics among key policy-research areas
Department picks out a range of issues as ‘areas of research interest’ for the coming years
‘The government was correct not to bail out Carillion’, MPs conclude
Parliamentary select committees publish report revealing that fallen outsourcer sent a £160m ‘ransom note’ to the government days before its collapse