Constituents report MP to ICO over alleged data-protection breach in Facebook post
Data-protection watchdog ‘making enquiries’ after Conservative Gordon Henderson publishes names and partial addresses of local residents who sent him a letter
Digital-identity policy function shifted from GDS to DCMS
Move follows the earlier transfer of data policymakers
NHS Digital commits £1.5m to help data sharing between health and social care
Funding to be made available in three streams, addressing current and potential uses of digital...
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‘Running towards change’ – government uses Budget to bet big on digital and data
A comprehensive round-up of a wide range of measures that commit more funding, create new bodies and programmes, and change the legislative landscape of public sector technology
Data can, and should, inform better policy
David Downing of SAS outlines why the government needs to make better use of its reservoirs of data
Review calls for Treasury to push Whitehall on better use of data
Report from Sir Michael Barber also urges departments to be more receptive to ‘disruptive innovation’
‘You should be able to see your entire interaction with us’ – HMRC promises to put its mountain of data to customer-centric use
Organisation’s first-ever CDO looks to improve how the department processes and uses information
Message to Amber Rudd: Undermining encryption makes us less safe
Craig Stewart of Venafi believes that governments need to stop characterising the security technology as the enemy
Report calls on DVLA to set up website for drivers to check car emissions
Agency urged to set up online resource ahead of launch of clean-air zones
Public sector given March 2019 deadline to ditch .gsi domains and move to public cloud
Government issues edict instructing public bodies to move email and websites to gov.uk and other new domains
Cardiff launches citywide smart-parking scheme
Welsh capital launches the Park Cardiff app, providing data on parking spaces across the city
Phone-tracking data could be used to gather census statistics, ONS says
Office for National Statistics continues research to find ways of making the 2021 census the last to use traditional data-gathering methods
DCLG to create central data pool to boost homebuilding
Communities secretary Sajid Javid claims department is working with the likes of the Land Registry and Ordnance Survey to collate information
Which UK councils are leading the ‘urbantech’ revolution?
Local authorities must invest in AI and smart technology to overcome a multibillion-pound funding gap, a new report claims. Which cities and regions are ahead of the pack?
The digital skills gap must be closed to make smart cities a reality
An investment in skills is needed to create the cities of the future, argues James Milligan of Hays Digital Technology
Technology will augment - not replace - public-service professionals
Nesta’s Hasan Bakhshi and Eddie Copeland examine the impact on the UK public sector workforce of a range of global trends
NAO says preventable WannaCry damage shows DoH and NHS must ‘get their act together’
National Audit Office report also points to a lack of coordination in response to attack, which the government has concluded was conducted by North Korea
Government opens up data on £100bn of annual grant awards
Publication of departmental information is intended to help design policy and prevent fraud
Interview: ODI unpacks plans for three-year data odyssey
Open Data Institute head of policy Peter Wells talks PublicTechnology through the organisation’s plans for investing its new £6m package of government funding
HMRC chief defends tax agency’s data storage deal with Amazon Web Services
Agreement means that HMRC ‘has got out of the data business’, MPs told
Welsh Government launches ‘innovation directory’ resource for policymakers
Arloesiadur website will open up a range of data sets to help civil servants design economic policy
Analysis: What do the government's biggest digital services cost taxpayers ?
PublicTechnology research discovers what 50 of central government's most popular digital services each cost taxpayers and users - with prices per transaction ranging from 1p to almost £50
UPDATED: HMRC email outage ‘impacting customer submissions’
Department working with supplier to fix 'external network issue' preventing inbound and outbound communications
DWP to lead project to create digital platform to manage all pensions
Government confirms pensions dashboard programme will go ahead, with launch scheduled for 2019