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Ex-GDS and DIT digital leader Holly Ellis joins AWS

12 December 2019

Formerly head of DDaT skills across government, Ellis has taken on public sector-focused post at cloud heavyweight

Transparency concerns raised over NHS deal with Amazon Alexa
10 December 2019

Privacy International criticises decision to redact details of the health service’s agreement...

Conservative manifesto: five tech takeaways
9 December 2019

Rounding up the Tories’ key pledges in the area of digital and data, including a new cybercrime...

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Councils urged to work together to challenge big vendors

28 September 2016

Local government digital officers have said that councils need to be more honest about poor products from big suppliers and work together to demand change.

Total G-Cloud sales approaching £1.4bn, government reveals

27 September 2016

The latest G-Cloud sales figures show a slight decline in monthly sales in July, with local government sales remaining at just 5% of all-time sales.

Approach transformation projects with digital mindset not just digital tools, says Capita solutions director

21 September 2016

The idea that digital transformation will ever be finished is an “illusion” and government should focus on establishing long-term leadership to ensure evolution at a more organic pace, a Capita director has said.

Surrey NHS trust launches Internet of Things trial for improving dementia care

20 September 2016

Surrey and Borders Partners NHS Trust has launched a £5m trial of Internet of Things technologies to improve healthcare for people with dementia.

Local digital standard will need work to become a reality, conference told

20 September 2016

Councils must not let the local government Digital Service Standard become another set of principles that "gets shoved in a drawer” and isn’t made a reality, a conference has heard.

Ministry of Justice bags BEIS’s chief technology officer

19 September 2016

The Ministry of Justice has named the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s chief technology officer as its new chief digital and information officer.

ICT chief: Pace of change and poor leadership hampering councils' digitisation

16 September 2016

Local government is struggling to keep up with the pace of change in technologies and true digitisation is at risk of being held back by poor leadership, according to Tower Hamlet’s head of ICT.

GDS promised 'national presence' as it takes over DWP's Digital Academy and leaves Aviation House

15 September 2016

The Government Digital Service is to take ownership of the Department for Work and Pension’s Digital Academy to offer training to civil servants across Whitehall, as Cabinet Office says digital transformation strategy due by the end of the year.

GDS to update ‘cloud first’ policy

15 September 2016

The Government Digital Service has reiterated its commitment to the cloud and pledged to refresh its ‘cloud first’ policy and promote it more widely.

Information Commissioner’s Office seeks local opinion on FOIs

15 September 2016

The Information Commissioner’s Office is conducting a survey of councils to find out what their information governance frameworks are like.

Microsoft’s UK data centre signals a turning point for public sector cloud compting

13 September 2016

Mark Skilton of Warwick Business School says that the opening of Microsoft’s three UK data centres marks another step on the road to full public sector adoption of cloud computing in the country.

Whitehall ‘not cool enough’ to attract top cyber security talent

12 September 2016

The government needs to offer tech specialists more freedom and creativity if it wants to recruit the most talented people, according to a recruiter in the Ministry of Justice.

Ministry of Justice offers £90,000 for deputy director roles in digital team

12 September 2016

The Ministry of Justice is seeking a chief information security officer and a deputy director of digital delivery.

Cloud-first agenda failing to take hold in councils, survey says

9 September 2016

An analysis has shown that the adoption of cloud computing varies widely across councils, with barriers including out-of-date procurement policies and reliance on in-house IT infrastructure.

GDS calls for councils to apply for local Verify pilots

9 September 2016

The Government Digital Service has set out the requirement for councils wanting to join the first pilots of the local version of its identity assurance scheme, for older people’s concessionary travel and parking permits.

NHS to invest in digital skills as Wachter review recommends phased digitisation

7 September 2016

The Department of Health has announced an academy to train NHS staff in digital skills along with a suite of new digital services for patients in an effort to fast-track the NHS’ move to digitisation.

Putting citizens at the heart of digitisation

6 September 2016

Chris White, head of digital solutions at Capita Software Services, looks at how councils can use single sign-on citizen portals to improve services and support vulnerable residents. 

Tech companies asked about G-Cloud experience

2 September 2016

The representative body for UK tech companies is seeking opinions on the government’s G-Cloud procurement framework.

The Pokemon Go effect: How councils are tapping into augmented and virtual reality

1 September 2016

Sooraj Shah looks at the benefits of AR and VR, and asks whether councils should be spending taxpayers’ money on the emerging technologies so soon.

Socitm advocates move away from ‘delusions of transformation’

25 August 2016

Councils need to recognise that real digital transformation goes beyond e-enabling transactions and “get serious” about technology-informed redesign, Socitm has said.

Healthcare IT: How to manage a mammoth network

25 August 2016

Joe Kim, chief technology officer at IT monitoring and management tools developer SolarWinds, looks at the scale of the problem faced by healthcare organisers handling ever-increasing amounts of data and offers five ways they can tackle it.

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