The Innovate to Save scheme has picked its first eight initiatives to support

Peter Davies, Canterbury City Council’s head of digital transformation, talks to Gill Hitchcock about cloud, SaaS, big data, and delivering 85% of services digitally by 2019

City seeks IT partner to build platform for use across the public sector – and possibly the third sector too

Hugely experienced civil servant will help SMEs engage better with government in new role as strategic advisor

Departments urged to reverse habit of working in silos and embrace pan-government tech strategy for the good of citizens

Vehicles catering for digital delivery of driving theory tests and managed email services for central government - worth a cumulative £750m-plus - will not be replaced

Cloud Industry Forum warns that 'momentum and progress on the Government Transformation Strategy could stall' as it flags lack of G-Cloud sales updates and 'poorly articulated needs'

Government Digital Service lifts lid on success of project to simplify process of starting a business online

Agency’s director of digital transformation Mark Gray discusses revamp of client and datacentre computing estate, including increased use of cloud

Former EBRD IT boss joins credit agency

Report from DeepMind Health finds that health service has a haphazard hotchpotch of digital, paper, and other improvised systems

University of Surrey, Bristol University, and King's College London join forces to become 5G hub

IT reseller Insight's public sector chief argues that failing to invest in digital could hurt the government's ability to deliver services

Whitehall places only fourth, behind Canada, New Zealand, and Australia

Former No. 10 policy adviser Daniel Korski tells Sam Trendall about his plans to create an armada of UK tech players to compete with the best California has to offer – and why he needed to leave Whitehall to do so

After Royal Free is found to have breached Data Protection Act, information commissioner Elizabeth Denham offers four-point checklist for other trusts in their use of technology and data

James Butler of software and IT services firm Trustmarque examines how to ‘bridge the gap’ between private and public sector adoption

The DVLA has announced  plans to move off the majority of its legacy systems within three years.

Ensuring spaces can be booked by the public and other bodies can bring in revenue and create efficiencies, argues Chris Smith of Kajima

The UK would introduce an Estonia-style virtual identity card for EU nationals who settle in the UK following Brexit, according to reports.

Joe Kim of SolarWinds looks at what government IT pros can expect from hybrid IT, and whether implementing it will provide any benefits