As part of ongoing drive to consider the future of agencies and ALBs, minsters announce that dedicated space entity will move into tech department but will not lose ‘immense ambition’ […]...
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Government plans to build AI agent to help citizens with ‘life admin’
Leading firms have been invited to join civil service tech experts to start work on a prototype of a ‘helper’ that ministers hope could be rolled out to the populace […]...
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Cabinet Office ditches plan to build its own new IT system as part of Google-to-Microsoft switch
In government’s annual lowdown on the progress of major projects, Whitehall’s central department reveals that its IT overhaul will task the ICS unit in DESNZ with delivering a new platform […]...
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EXCL: One Login delivery date revised to 2028 with hundreds of millions of extra spending set to be committed
Documents reveal £115m being spent this year and a 2028 deadline for deployment across ‘all central government services’, but DSIT tells PublicTechnology the move is an expansion and an endorsement […]...
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How departments are using data analytics to combat fraud
PublicTechnology looks at case studies from a recent National Audit Office investigation into the publicsector’s ongoing efforts to halt billions of pounds in losses through fraud and error Fraud and […]...
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Trade department experiments with LLMs in ‘self-hosted, secure environment’
Having found that officials wished to deploy powerful AI tools to help analyse and derive information from documents, DBT has striven to create internal infrastructure allowing them to do so […]...
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GDS seeks external experts for public sector AI advisory panel
Whitehall’s central digital agency intends to convene a group of up to a dozen advisors to help provide scrutiny to AI strategies and the development of new tools and services […]...
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HMRC legacy decommissioning scheme requires ‘phased approach and careful consideration’
The government tax department recently indicated that it believed it will achieve annualised savings of almost a quarter of a billion pounds by migrating from ageing systems to SaaS alternatives […]...
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What next for the GOV.UK App?
Government’s first ever unified mobile app is now open for business across the country. But, as PublicTechnology reports, digital experts are hoping the technology will have lots more to come. […]...
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New top UK supercomputer back in the mix with £750m SR25 funding
The creation of a new and extremely powerful machine was planned by the previous Tory government, before the new Labour administration had suggested the project had never been properly funded […]...
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