Fujitsu proposes tech solution for ‘free-flowing’ Irish border
IT company reveals it is ‘looking to validate as a viable solution’ a proposal based on GPS and geofencing
Government spends £7m on Brexit IT consultancy
Departments award a range of deals to services and outsourcing firms
Government ‘expects resolution’ to settled status app iPhone compatibility issues
The Home Office claims it is ‘working constructively with Apple’
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Nicholas Lloyd, who oversees technology across 52 global locations, discusses the changing threat landscape
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We revisit the big news and major events from the second half of 2018
The biggest stories of 2018 – part one
We take a look back at the major developments that shaped the first half of the year
What next for the government’s anti-fake news unit?
Earlier this year, the government loudly heralded the creation of the Rapid Response Unit to tackle misinformation. But two months after its initial funding ran out, it has gone quiet on its future.
Right to work checks go fully digital
Service allowing firms to check potential employees’ immigration status can be transacted entirely online
Department for International Trade offers £118k for CTO to ‘raise digital literacy’
Chosen candidate will be tasked with setting departmental IT vision
Home Office seeks £20m partner for border threat assessments
Supplier sought to support rollout of advance border control service
Home Office seeks leader for £200m transformation of immigration technology
Role as delivery director comes with remit to help ‘redesign approach to delivering technology’
HMRC releases £5m fund for firms to prep for post-Brexit customs system
Government cash will be used to help businesses buy software and train staff
PM revisits proposal for ‘Max Fac’ technology at Irish border
Possibility of using tech to facilitate an open border is back under discussion
Department for International Trade offers £85k for chief data officer
Senior manager will develop data sharing tools and practices
NCA cybercrime unit looks to deepen ties with Russia’s neighbours
Central cybercrime agency wants to employ more officers overseas
MPs team up with Canadian counterparts in final attempt to grill Zuckerberg
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?
Government calls out Russian intelligence for ‘reckless and indiscriminate’ cyberattacks
A range of assaults against targets across the world have been attributed to the GRU
Trump’s cyber strategy vows US will ‘stand up to’ perpetrators of threats
White House publishes national policy document including plans to update surveillance laws
One Team Gov goes global
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
Jeremy Hunt criticises Google's lack of cooperation on international child-abuse crackdown
Foreign secretary hits out at internet titan
DfT to explore effects of systems integration on airport X-rays
Government to examine whether the current mixed set-up of screening and tray-management systems is having an impact on security levels
Inside the Canadian Digital Service – why immigration transformation represents its ‘first big opportunity’
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
Inside the Canadian Digital Service – how the transformation agency began life ‘on the corner of someone’s desk’
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
Government opted not to encrypt Cold War Kremlin hotline as £20,000 cost was deemed too high
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’