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Possibility of using tech to facilitate an open border is back under discussion

Senior manager will develop data sharing tools and practices

Central cybercrime agency wants to employ more officers overseas

An international committee hosted in London later this month will be attended by representatives of a number of governments around the world – but will they be joined by the Facebook CEO?

A range of assaults against targets across the world have been attributed to the GRU

White House publishes national policy document including plans to update surveillance laws 

The government reform movement has snowballed to include both counterparts in other countries and the wider public sector. PublicTechnology went along to its first global event to find out more

Foreign secretary hits out at internet titan

Government to examine whether the current mixed set-up of screening and tray-management systems is having an impact on security levels

In the second of our two-part feature, senior figures at the government transformation agency talk through the services it has built so far and how it intends to be ‘a bit more bold’ in its second year

In the first of a two-part feature to mark the anniversary of its opening, PublicTechnology talks to a range of key figures from the Canadian Digital Service about how it came to be established, its role and remit, and what it learned from the experiences of GDS 

Newly published former top-secret documents reveal that a direct communications link between Downing Street and Mikhail Gorbachev was not encrypted – despite the wishes of the government’s ‘technical experts’

Scott Brison takes on digital government brief and will be supported by national CIO Alex Benay who has been promoted to a deputy minister-level post

The UK has slipped from first to fourth place in the global digital government rankings published biennially by the United Nations.

Public Accounts Committee remain ‘worried’ about whether new system can be delivered successfully in time for Brexit

Home Office seeks software and hardware platform for monitoring those being prosecuted for immigration offences

The technical director of the National Cyber Security Centre tells PublicTechnology about the organisation’s achievements so far, and what it is doing to prepare for an inevitable cyber emergency

Trade body leader Julian David writes to international trade secretary Liam Fox to argue that the UK must adhere to data-protection rules to remain a tech-industry leader

Department unveils plans to use digital in both its work delivering aid and its function as a part of government 

Organisation building centralised team to help Whitehall manage the digital implications of leaving the EU while maintaining longer-term transformation goals

FCO teams up with DFID and British Council to tender for four-year framework to provide networking to 550 sites in the UK and throughout the world