Network problems disrupt G-Cloud 12 applications
CCS and GDS work to identify affected firms
Cabinet Office cleared for £30m plan to move back-office apps to SaaS
Spend-control data shows approval for eight-figure investment in project to migrate from on-...
‘We are a British company with only British datacentres – and a commitment to pay our taxes’
UKCloud has joined the major cloud players in signing a public-sector wide agreement. The firm’s...
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'No mission longer than 11 weeks' - GOV.UK adopts new way of working
Projects can vary in scope, but must always wrap up inside a quarter
‘It was always difficult to get local authorities to use G-Cloud’ – former GDS chief Singleton
Framework’s ease of use contributed to misconceptions about its security, its founder believes
Ambulance data-sharing and smart speakers for carers receive chunk of £5m Welsh innovation fund
The Innovate to Save scheme has picked its first eight initiatives to support
Canterbury raises its barriers to digital delivery
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
Leeds to build hybrid-cloud shared services platform
City seeks IT partner to build platform for use across the public sector – and possibly the third sector too
Digital Marketplace godfather Tony Singleton joins consultancy Advice Cloud
Hugely experienced civil servant will help SMEs engage better with government in new role as strategic advisor
'GDS needs departmental buy-in - but for some its name is still mud', says techUK public services head
Departments urged to reverse habit of working in silos and embrace pan-government tech strategy for the good of citizens
CCS points users of major expiring frameworks towards G-Cloud
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
Don’t lose sight of ‘cloud first’ commitment, Cabinet Office warned
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'
GDS tells public sector to 'be bold and unpublish' unnecessary web pages
Government Digital Service lifts lid on success of project to simplify process of starting a business online
Crown Prosecution Service refreshes computing to drive digitisation and remote working
Agency’s director of digital transformation Mark Gray discusses revamp of client and datacentre computing estate, including increased use of cloud
SnapChat and fax machines – report finds that ‘the digital revolution has bypassed the NHS’
Report from DeepMind Health finds that health service has a haphazard hotchpotch of digital, paper, and other improvised systems
Government invests £16m in three sites for 'world's first' 5G trial project
University of Surrey, Bristol University, and King's College London join forces to become 5G hub
Why the government should protect IT spending
IT reseller Insight's public sector chief argues that failing to invest in digital could hurt the government's ability to deliver services
Disappointing digital drags on UK civil service world ranking
Whitehall places only fourth, behind Canada, New Zealand, and Australia
Could the UK become the Silicon Valley of government technology?
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
'It's not a choice between privacy or innovation', ICO tells NHS trusts
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
How the public sector can remove barriers to cloud
James Butler of software and IT services firm Trustmarque examines how to ‘bridge the gap’ between private and public sector adoption
DVLA sets target for abandoning legacy systems
The DVLA has announced plans to move off the majority of its legacy systems within three years.
Public facilities should do away with downtime
Ensuring spaces can be booked by the public and other bodies can bring in revenue and create efficiencies, argues Chris Smith of Kajima