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Department advertises for vacant post as head of digital capability

Department kicks off early-engagement exercise for new system of managing problems

Ahead of next week’s Sprint 18 event, GDS director general Kevin Cunnington outlines the organisation’s focus areas for the coming months, and its achievements of the past two years

Both the government and human rights group Liberty claim victory after judges agree that the so-called snoopers' charter is incompatible with EU legislation 

Alice Lawson from South Australia Housing Trust discusses how housing providers can better target their resources and design citizen-centric services

Newly created role comes with brief to ‘transform service delivery’ of county council

Metropolitan borough looks to acquire 12 devices to help environmental-protection unit capture incidents

As an ever-greater volume of increasingly sophisticated devices watch us all, PublicTechnology talks to regulator Tony Porter about his office’s role in ensuring surveillance is always used ‘proportionately and sensitively’

Department uses social-media conversation as part of consultation on potential move to opt-out model

Neil Bennett of NHS Digital details the organisation’s improvements to its communications and productivity tools

DCMS committee chair bemoans ‘misleading answers’ provided by the tech firm so far

NHS National Services Scotland’s data chiefs tell Gill Hitchcock about a mobile-friendly platform to give clinicians, policymakers, and patients up-to-date access to healthcare information

Nesta creates 10-strong list of principles it believes should define how government uses artificial intelligence and algorithms

Departing departmental chief claims that programme to reform welfare while driving services online should have ‘had a twin-track strategy from the start’

Home Office claims machine-learning software developed in conjunction with ASI Data Science could be of use to smaller platforms such as Vimeo, Telegra.ph, and pCloud

Law Commission asked to analyse whether and how statutes need to be changed to ensure they are fit for the internet age

Ciaran Martin claims that ‘it is a matter of when, not if’ the country suffers a top-level category-one assault

Establishing united team of 400 workers will save each authority an estimated £300,000 a year

Partners of fallen firm pledge that work to roll out networks across the UK will continue as scheduled

MPs claim department faces ‘difficult decisions’ to deliver on schemes including Making Tax Digital rollout and office relocations 

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