Government identifies additional cohort of at-risk people...
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Councils organise local computers for remote schooling schemes
Norfolk, Essex, Greater Manchester and West Midlands among authorities setting up local projects...
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Digital identity plans to promote ‘vouching’ by professionals
Government will set legal requirements for digital identity providers rather than consider national identity cards...
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NAO finds government struggled with data needed to build shielding list
Report finds 126,000 people were told to shield unnecessarily, as well as 30,000 who had already died...
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Ben Goldacre to review research use of health data
Head of Oxford University DataLab and ‘Bad Science’ author to report findings in April...
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West Hertfordshire NHS Trust signs £30m ten-year deal for electronic patient records
Contract awarded to US player Cerner...
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Covid-19 app has told more than 1.7m people to isolate
DHSC picks higher of Turing Institute’s two estimates of number of cases averted...
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Government tapped fleet of £1,300-a-day AWS consultants to advise on contact-tracing app
Procurement documents show more than £300,000 spent across 234 billable days...
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ICO strengthens technology team and plans more recruitment
Regulator brings in Stephen Almond from World Economic Forum...
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Interview: How digital had ‘a ringside seat’ in Singapore’s pandemic response
The Singaporean government’s response to Covid-19 has made extensive use of digital, devices, and data – not always uncontroversially. PublicTechnology talks to Kok Ping Soon, the head of GovTech Singapore, to […]...
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