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May 14, 2024

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EXCL: Work begins to reach new users via major ‘brand refresh’ for GOV.UK

May 9, 2024

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Business and industry News

HMRC signs off £500m in deals for digital services revamp

May 17, 2024

Government’s tax agency has picked Capgemini, Netcompany, IBM and Accenture as the suppliers for a quarter of contracts addressing ‘new builds’ of digital services in a comprehensive range of areas […]...

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Defence and Security News

Controversial disinformation unit focused on ‘foreign states, election risks and deepfakes’

May 17, 2024

In light of continued parliamentary questions about the much criticised and recently renamed National Security Information Team, ministers have shed some light on the unit’s biggest areas of interest Government’s […]...

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Major projects: Government warned of skills gaps and unreliable cost estimates

May 17, 2024

A report from MPs om parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has found that departments are often too dependent on private sector suppliers to support delivery of large tech and infrastructure programmes […]...

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Education and skills News

Open University appoints £70m digital partner

May 16, 2024

Distance learning institution awards contract for supplier to support rollout over the coming five years of various online tools for use both by the university’s staff and its 200,000 students […]...

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GDS head Tom Read to step down

May 16, 2024

After three years in post, and a decade in government, the chief executive of the Government Digital Service has announced he is shortly ‘to move on to a new challenge’ […]...

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Education and skills News

Citizens report high levels of trust in ONS

May 16, 2024

A biennial survey from the National Centre for Social Research has found that the public reports higher amounts of confidence in official statistics agency than in other branches of government […]...

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Business and industry News

DWP Pensions Dashboards programme adds £13m to core tech deal as report identifies ‘digital skills shortages’

May 15, 2024

Since its inception, delivery of website for citizens to access info on all their pensions has been postponed by a total of seven years, with costs rising by a quarter […]...

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HMRC signs off £500m in deals for digital services revamp

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Controversial disinformation unit focused on ‘foreign states, election risks and deepfakes’

May 17, 2024

Major projects: Government warned of skills gaps and unreliable cost estimates

May 17, 2024

Open University appoints £70m digital partner

May 16, 2024

GDS head Tom Read to step down

May 16, 2024

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Features Highlights Science, technology and research

Comprehensive coverage vs dimensions of uncertainty – the complicated world of ‘AI-enriched intelligence’

Sam Trendall May 3, 2024 0 Comment

Artificial intelligence offers unprecedented opportunities for security professionals to analyse material, but such potential is accompanied by major challenges and unknowns, according to a report from the Alan Turing Institute […]...

Emergency drones and a crypto tax bonanza: Six things you may have missed in the budget

March 7, 2024

Digital Leaders’ Download: Vijay Rangarajan on how tech and data helps FCDO respond to conflict, crisis – and the coronation

March 1, 2024

Digital Leaders’ Download: Treasury leader Cat Little on how policy and digital can combine to deliver ‘radical’ new outcomes

February 12, 2024

Why digital is ‘becoming much more of a political issue’ for local government

January 22, 2024

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Business and industry Highlights Opinion

Regulators must act now to get a grip on the relationship between cloud and AI

April 8, 2024

Do you have the right skills? Are you underestimating the work required? NAO’s guide to the digital questions senior leaders should ask

March 20, 2024

‘A complete lack of control’ – how Horizon highlights the public sector’s over-reliance on outsourcers

January 31, 2024

The top public sector tech trends to look out for in 2024

December 27, 2023

General election: Manifestos must take account of digital deliverability

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Government and politics News

Government unveils first-ever digital version of formal coronation document

Sam Trendall May 9, 2024 0 Comment

A special Coronation Roll has been created for each new monarch over the past 700 years and King Charles III is the first to be presented with an electronic format […]...

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GDS pledges user control, data minimisation, and ICO arbitration for new government digital ID service

Sam Trendall May 8, 2024 0 Comment

GDS has published a set of ‘principles’ that will inform and regulate departments’ use of digital identity, alongside details of how the new One Login system will meet these standards […]...

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News Transport

Home Office pins four-hour passport e-gate failure on ‘network issue’

Sam Trendall May 8, 2024 0 Comment

Biometric border technology system that is used each year by millions of travellers last night suffered a lengthy outage at ports across the country, with passengers reporting disruption and delays […]...

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Defence and Security News

Cybercriminals release ‘substantial amount’ of Scottish NHS data

Sofia Villegas May 8, 2024 0 Comment

A ransomware collective that attacked NHS Dumfries and Galloway is reported to have published large volumes of info on the dark web, in what leaders call an ‘abhorrent criminal act’ […]...

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Business and industry News

Disclosure and Barring Service retains CGI for application support in £71m deal

Sam Trendall May 7, 2024 0 Comment

Having begun working together in 2019, the Home Office unit dedicated to recruitment checks has extended for another three years its longstanding tech engagement with the Canadian IT services heavyweight […]...

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MPs issue warning over WhatsApp-based lobbying

Tevye Markson May 7, 2024 0 Comment

The use of popular instant messaging platforms by officials and ministers should be entirely prohibited unless it can be further included in official transparency regimes, according to a parliamentary committee […]...

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Defence and Security News

Data of military personnel breached in China cyberattack on MoD, reports claim

Sam Trendall May 7, 2024 0 Comment

The latest in a growing line of cyber incidents has been pinned on Beijing, with defence secretary Grant Shapps to speak this afternoon as fellow parliamentarians warn of ‘systemic threat’ […]...

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Features Highlights Science, technology and research

Comprehensive coverage vs dimensions of uncertainty – the complicated world of ‘AI-enriched intelligence’

Sam Trendall May 3, 2024 0 Comment

Artificial intelligence offers unprecedented opportunities for security professionals to analyse material, but such potential is accompanied by major challenges and unknowns, according to a report from the Alan Turing Institute […]...

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News Society and welfare

DWP minister pledges processing improvements this year as some benefits missed targets on 96% of claims in FY24

Sam Trendall May 3, 2024 0 Comment

Pensions minister Paul Maynard claims that the department’s processing performance improved in 2023/24 – although many benefit lines still failed to meet targets for significant proportions of claimants, statistics have […]...

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