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BEIS and DCMS seeking head for new jointly run Office for Artificial Intelligence

John Manzoni tells civil servants that use of RPA could create more time for work with customers

New voice-activated app will provide community updates and circulate missing and wanted persons information

DCMS study finds majority of organisations in private and third sectors have never even heard of soon-to-be-implemented legislation

Department unveils plans to use digital in both its work delivering aid and its function as a part of government 

NHS bodies and Department of Health and Social Care issue guidance clarifying that numerous offshore locations are considered a safe home for health and social services data

Public sector ICT charity to migrate all customers – understood to include local and central government bodies – by the end of 2018, after deciding public cloud is the way forward

Organisation building centralised team to help Whitehall manage the digital implications of leaving the EU while maintaining longer-term transformation goals

Department seeks supplier to bring IDENT 1 and IABS programmes under single service-management structure in project worth a possible £300m

PublicTechnology talks to the think tank’s digital and data specialist Eleonora Harwich about how AI could help eradicate disparity in the quality of healthcare and why GDS needs to focus more on the needs of its colleagues in Whitehall

Project required collaboration between CCS, GDS, and Government Legal Department

Dacorum Borough Council in Hertfordshire has redesigned its council tax service to better work with ‘the quirks of how we actually think’. Gill Hitchcock finds out more

Concern still mounting about ‘most disturbing issue to hit the industry for decades’

In a town gaining 40,000 extra citizens each decade, the council's strategy chief Geoff Snelson tells PublicTechnology why smart-city ideas and technology need to be an intrinsic part of planning for the short- and long-term future

Department accrued a five-year backlog of requests, notice from watchdog reveals

Whitehall siloes should be broken by creating a centralised body to collate and oversee the use of data, believes Johan Hogsander of Transform

DVSA stats show steady website traffic on 25 December

We run through the biggest stories from July to December

The CEO of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency talks 2017 and Christmas traditions

The first of a two-part recap of 2017 looks at the biggest stories and most significant developments in the first six months of the year

Department lays out three-year strategy