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Local authority unveils ambition to ‘become a digital council by 2020’

Eve Roodhouse talks to PublicTechnology about the organisation’s 2018 plans, the impact of WannaCry – and how an app has helped her family’s dental regime

Current CIO for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Hertfordshire forces appointed to top job at national technology organisation

Establishing united team of 400 workers will save each authority an estimated £300,000 a year

Department seeks digital specialist to help it prepare for public beta launch within three months and pass assessment by the end of October

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

Hertsmere MP’s brief as minister for implementation also includes IPA, CCS, and cybersecurity initiatives

First set of annual accounts for BPDTS Ltd reveal that company delivered more than £12m of IT services to department in first four months of existence

Ministry concludes search for Mike Stone’s replacement with appointment of external candidate

Japanese titan acquires UK government IT specialist

New jobs for former GDS minister Caroline Nokes and digital minister Matt Hancock, with no word yet on if they will be directly replaced and by whom

Investigation will form part of wider Treasury Committee probe into impact of childcare policy

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

Organisation recruiting for role heading up ‘small, but growing team’

Candidate will also be tasked with leading review of how legislation could be modernised following EU withdrawal

The leader of the national innovation organisation looks back on 10 years of work

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

PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out three topics that may define the year ahead

Despite recommendations from election regulators, the government has decided that such a tool would be overly costly and complex