DWP to move Universal Credit data-analytics platform to AWS cloud in £2.5m deal
Department to move system for analysing Universal Credit information to public cloud
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GOV.UK service performance platform to close
Centralised tool to be retired next month with onus shifted to departments to publish their own data
Stroud council plans £400k digital drive
Gloucestershire town to implement digital platform
‘Plagued by cronyism’ – shadow minister calls for end to emergency procurement measures
Relaxation of usual processes was first announced almost a year ago
Extra 800,000 people to be prioritised for vaccine after use of ‘predictive risk’ technology
Government identifies additional cohort of at-risk people
MPs urge government to clarify future of proposed £800m R&D unit
Dominic Cummings-supported plans for a high-risk science and tech research agency appear to have stalled
HMRC seeks ops head for anti-fraud unit
Service aims to improve use of tech as part of transformation programme
Investigations may lack data during three-month process to restore 200,000 police records
Minister reveals former Met commissioner will lead review into incident
Cabinet Office denies FOI blacklist
Campaigners call for parliamentary investigation into handling of requests
Digital use of vehicle tax and driving test services spiked in April
Use of digital channels has fallen back since the first lockdown, Department for Transport data shows
Digital identity plans to promote 'vouching' by professionals
Government will set legal requirements for digital identity providers rather than consider national identity cards
NAO finds government struggled with data needed to build shielding list
Report finds 126,000 people were told to shield unnecessarily, as well as 30,000 who had already died
Ben Goldacre to review research use of health data
Head of Oxford University DataLab and ‘Bad Science’ author to report findings in April
Digitisation will help make census safe says ONS
Statistical agency hopes that three-quarters of responses in England and Wales will be digital
Covid-19 app has told more than 1.7m people to isolate
DHSC picks higher of Turing Institute’s two estimates of number of cases averted
Interview: How digital had 'a ringside seat' in Singapore's pandemic response
The Singaporean government’s response to Covid-19 has made extensive use of digital, devices, and data – not always uncontroversially. PublicTechnology talks to Kok Ping Soon, the head of GovTech Singapore, to find out more.
HMRC offers two days of homeworking each week in standard contract
Document will bring working conditions in line
GOV.UK Verify gets ‘health check’
Cyber specialist awarded £14,000 six-month contract
HMRC confirms leader for £300m cloud migration programme
Denise Dourado formally appointed as SRO
Ministers face calls for urgent action after Covid reveals ‘dangerous gaps in public data’
Poor use and presentation of information means government has ‘missed chances to save lives’, according to report from Full Fact
Parliamentary committee to investigate civil service churn
MPs request years of data to support probe