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As the New Year approaches, PublicTechnology takes a look at what we might expect in the world of digital government in 2017.
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Defence Equipment and Support, a trading entity of the Ministry of Defence, is recruiting for a chief information officer to develop IT strategy and make better use of emerging technologies.
NAO tells HMRC to improve accuracy of records on Scottish taxpayers
More than 400,000 Scottish taxpayers did not receive a notification letter from HMRC in December last year due to an error in the design of an automated identification exercise, the UK’s spending watchdog has found.
Transformation strategy delays: Government urgently needs to take digital out of limbo
That the long-awaited digital strategy has fallen by the wayside is not a surprise, but ministers must move to demonstrate their commitment to digital quickly, writes PublicTechnology's online editor Rebecca Hill.
Home Office digital team to create common language for services
The Home Office service design team is building a common language help different teams in the department communicate more simply and clearly.
Home Office creates £100,000 deputy director position in live services team
The Home Office has created a deputy director position on its live services team to manage a new strategic service desk and develop a cyber security operations centre.
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Ready to innovate: How local government is responding to budget pressure
Microsoft partner CPS walks through its efforts to empower local government as part of a series that highlights local government innovators across the UK
Government under pressure to publish transformation strategy before Christmas
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
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
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.
TechUK urges police forces to shift to the cloud and increase online crime reporting
Police forces need to increase their use of online crime reporting tools, live-streaming videos and adoption of cloud-based systems, TechUK has said.techUK estimates the cost of police time spent on low level crime reporting to be £130m a year.3
Cabinet Office lacked ‘sound business case’ on shared procurement plans, says NAO
The government has not achieved predicted savings through shared purchasing of common goods and services due to “overambitious targets, poor planning, inadequate data and lack of buy in”, a report has said.
GDS seeks data.gov.uk manager as strategy expected emphasise need for open data
The Government Digital Service has launched a recruitment drive for a product manager for the government’s catalogue of open data, data.gov.uk.
Socitm: Too many councils make applying for social housing complex and cumbersome
Just 39% of metropolitan councils provide a good or very good service for people to apply for housing online, according to the latest results from Socitm’s Better Connected survey.
Making waves: How Greenwich council is embracing innovative technologies
The Royal Borough of Greenwich is best known for its nautical history, but the council’s digital team is now setting its course for super-fast connectivity and cutting-edge technologies. Gill Hitchcock reports.
Transforming Whitehall IT: GDS celebrates five years at the heart of government digital
The Government Digital Service was officially launched on 8 December 2011. Rebecca Hill takes a look back at five years of transformation, trials and tribulations at the central government team.
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GDS: Civil servants ‘wasting time’ producing content that users can’t find
Three-quarters of GOV.UK content is looked at by less than 10 people a month, according to figures from the Government Digital Service.
Think tank urges government to clarify role of GDS in long-awaited digital strategy
The government’s digital transformation strategy must identify the trade-offs the Government Digital Service will be expected to make in implementing the work, the Institute for Government has said.
London’s police officers get new tool to fight crime
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