‘Tech transformation is coming’ – Hancock unveils £475m digitisation fund in first speech as health secretary
Matt Hancock also rebuffs criticism of virtual GP service
MPs air more doubts on progress of £1bn courts digitisation scheme
Public Accounts Committee follows the NAO in voicing 'serious concerns' about reform programme...
Windrush scandal fallout sees Home Office suspend data-sharing activities
Department to take three-month break from ‘proactive data sharing’ with other government...
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GDS Academy looks for new leader to oversee ‘transformation and expansion’
Current academy leader Sweeney reveals impending move to Australia, as skills and training organisation also lifts lid on plans to collaborate more with other governments
Why a stint in Whitehall is a 'massive career-maker' for digital leaders
Stephanie Wilson of public-sector recruiter GatenbySanderson tells PublicTechnology about the challenges and rewards of looking for the talent to drive the government's digital transformation
The government should be a role model on IT reuse
Remanufactured computers could provide 95% of the performance of a new PC at a fraction of the cost to the environment; it is time for the civil service to set an examples, argues professor Mark Jolly of Cranfield University
National Infrastructure Commission urges government to lead the way on digital twin projects
Report also encourages the codification of data standards
Who are central government’s highest-earning technology professionals?
Fewer than one in seven digital specialists to feature in annual rundown of Whitehall’s biggest earners are women, as NHS and Network Rail roles dominate
No longer a ‘framework factory’ – inside CCS tech chief’s plans to progress the procurement paradigm
Procurement agency’s technology category director discusses ongoing work to drive Whitehall transformation programmes and ambitions to expand into new areas
IoT, gamification, and blockchain in focus for second cohort of GCHQ Cyber Accelerator
Nine companies to make the cut given the chance to present their technology to digital minister
NHS seeks input of digital ‘lost tribes’ to guide £6m skills investment
Health and care workers invited to take part in consultation
CCS tech chief: ‘We need one marketplace for the future’
Crown Marketplace will ultimately supplant Digital Marketplace, technology category director asserts
Why some UK local authorities are stuck in in a digital Stone Age
Ross Harling of Netitude lifts the lid on the findings of a study which shows UK councils are failing to recognise some major opportunities of digitisation
Public sector ‘cannot rely on consent as a legal basis’ for GDPR compliance, warns ICO
Government entities urged to explore one of the four other options available for establishing the lawfulness of data processing
UK ‘underperforming’ in government digitisation, EC report concludes
Major study of 34 countries ranks UK is sixth citizen-adoption league table but 19th in terms of digitisation of services
Reaction round-up - industry welcomes Budget tech investments but insists more can be done
An of commentators from tech businesses and industry bodies offer their thoughts on Philip Hammond's Budget
Lookback: all the technology and data measures of today's Budget as they happened
A reminder of all the tech- and data-related announcements from chancellor Philip Hammond in today's budget
HMRC will deliver new customs system ‘whether we get the funding or not’, pledges CEO Thompson
Department head in bullish mood in meeting with Public Accounts Committee
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
DVSA seeks leader to steer agency ‘into an increasingly digital future’
Organisation offering £85,000 for head of digital services post
‘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
GDS offers £100k each in hunt for deputy director digital double act
Organisation looking for leaders to fill two senior roles
‘Top-down approaches don’t work’ – LGA calls for digital devolution
Local authority membership body urges government to devolve the programme of work set out in the Industrial Strategy
PAC warns of ‘catastrophic effects’ if HMRC is not given extra funding for customs platform
MPs call on the Treasury to devote enough cash to ensure that both the outgoing system and its replacement can handle post-Brexit requirements