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Vast majority of doctors in the region buy into the 'Geordie nation concept'

Warning of “Whitehall asset-stripping” as policy-focused DCMS looks set to gain chunk of GDS remit

Head of the watchdog, Elizabeth Denham, says ICO will be expected to do “more of everything” as strict new data compliance law comes down the track

Joint Nature Conservation Committee looks to meet Government Digital Service standards and move away from content management system it has been running since 2005

New director of digital, data and technology skills expected to set future digital strategy in the department leading on post-Brexit trade deals

Courts service extends trial of digital divorce offering

Study finds that a quarter of officers need to access six or more databases in working on a single case

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