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Inspectors to assess schools’ remote-learning set-ups

18 January 2021

Education Scotland will examine how institutions across the country are responding to need for online learning

Major IT firms added to cross-government strategic supplier list
7 January 2021

Computacenter and AWS have, in the last 12 months, both been added to the list of the government...

The four (non-coronavirus) public sector tech trends that will define 2021
29 December 2020

PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out the big issues that might shape the year ahead....

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Government under pressure to publish transformation strategy before Christmas

16 December 2016

The government’s chance of meeting its self-imposed deadline of publishing the transformation strategy before Christmas have once again narrowed as critics accuse ministers of trying to “sneak it out” as parliament rises for recess.

AWS becomes latest cloud services provider to open UK region

16 December 2016

Amazon Web Services has this week opened its first London region, joining Microsoft and IBM in boosting its UK-based cloud data centre offering and aiming at securing public sector customers.

Councils’ building control pages written for ‘professionals’ and risk ‘alienating’ residents

16 December 2016

Less than half of UK local authorities’ websites have good or very good information for people planning to carry out a building project – and some are using web pages as a “hard sell” for council services, a survey has said.

G-Cloud sales near £1.6bn as proportion of SME sales remain stable

15 December 2016

The latest figures on the government’s cloud procurement framework G-Cloud show that just over half of all sales are to smaller companies – a figure that has remained largely unchanged over the past two years.

GDS boss Cunnington reveals biggest challenge of 2017 - and his penchant for festive beer

14 December 2016

The Government Digital Service's director general Kevin Cunnington has offered PublicTechnology's sister publication Civil Service World an insight into his goals for next year, taken a look back on 2016 - and spilled the beans on his favourite Christmas gift - as part of CSW's annual permanent secretary round...

GDS rolls out single government WiFi service

14 December 2016

A secure cross-Whitehall WiFi service will be available in government buildings in early 2017 as part of private beta testing, the Government Digital Service has announced.

Public sector finance officers say digital transformation is ‘top priority’

7 December 2016

Digital transformation will be the biggest priority for public sector chief finance officers over the next five years, according to a survey by consultancy EY.

Whitehall urged to create £4m fund to boost councils’ use of data

29 November 2016

The government should encourage councils to increase their use of data through a £4m fund to partner data scientists with councils and make data analysis a requirement of devolution deals, according to a report.

IBM to triple cloud data centre capacity in UK

22 November 2016

IBM has become the latest company to boost its cloud data centre offering in the UK, announcing plans to add four new cloud data centres, bringing its total in the country to six.

Scottish social care providers must not wait for the limitations of analogue telecare to appear before adopting digital

21 November 2016

With current approaches to Scotland’s social services labelled unsustainable, and health care similarly under pressure, Tom Morton of Communicare247 urges providers to realise the potential for digital technology now.

Trump appears to have no position on digital – but are the tech tides against him?

18 November 2016

The digital revolution in US states and cities is not likely to grind to a halt following Trump’s election, but your take on his win will depend on how you view the sands of time, says David Walker.

Brexit for good? Seeking facts on the digital opportunities of leaving the EU

10 November 2016

What opportunities could there be for digital n the UK as it exits the European Union? Digital consultant William Perrin is on a mission to find out. Here, he tells PublicTechnology about his latest research project.

Government at ‘tipping point’ over digital, says think tank

31 October 2016

Institute for Government report identifies issues with leadership, legacy systems and retention of skilled staff, while warning of Brexit ‘distraction’.

Public sector IT workers failing to use G-Cloud, says survey

27 October 2016

More than half of public sector IT workers have not used G-Cloud in the past year, while just a quarter say cloud adoption is an important challenge for the next year, a study has said.

Lessons from Seoul: How eGovernment can drive citizen engagement

14 October 2016

Scott Moore, business analyst for the Scottish Improvement Service, won a Socitm scholarship to research digital public service trend in Seoul during the summer. Here he looks back on he learnt during his summer investigating the city’s digital transformation.

Government told to up its game on artificial intelligence

12 October 2016

MPs have urged the government to set a strategy to deal with the ethics and technology associated with rapid advances in artificial intelligence and robotics.

Cracking the ‘us versus them’ mentality: Singapore’s GovTech CIO on digital services for the masses

7 October 2016

This week saw the official launch of the Singapore’s dedicated government tech agency GovTech. Rebecca Hill spoke to the organisation’s chief information officer Chan Cheow Hoe about the issues facing government digital services and how his team is addressing them.

‘It’s cheaper, democratic and what users want’: Why councils need to think about accessibility

6 October 2016

RNIB inclusion guru Steve Tyler tells Gill Hitchcock that it makes sense for councils to build accessibility into their digital services. 

Nesta issues innovation and technology to-do list for Scottish cities

29 September 2016

Scotland’s cities could improve “significantly” on the way they use technology and innovation to drive growth, a report from the CITIE partnership has said.

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.

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