Cambridgeshire’s connectivity mission
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority is investing £13.6m to boost connectivity. Gill Hitchcock reports on the challenging targets and the delivery team working with suppliers to remove barriers and pave the way for success
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Met Office prepares to revamp consumer digital strategy
Weather agency awards two-year contract to user experience and geospatial data specialist firms
Government review to assess how policy could guide telecoms market into ultrafast future
DCMS-led initiative to examine how policy and market conditions could ensure UK has world-class digital connectivity
London boroughs, universities, and NHS trusts team up to share WiFi
An array of public-sector organisations have united to offer users ‘seamless’ connectivity
Warrington to offer schools ‘wireless-as-a-service’
Borough council looks to appoint supplier for new WiFi addition to its schools ICT portfolio
Former Telefonica bigwig Mike Short to join Department for International Trade
Telecoms exec to take Whitehall chief scientist post
London boroughs team up to roll out £1.7m hosted housing management platform
Wandsworth and Richmond pick Northgate to deliver software
All prison officers in England and Wales to get body-worn cameras
Government spends £2m on equipping 5,600 staff with technology designed to improve safety
DWP scraps 55p-a-minute helpline charges but stresses 99% of Universal Credit claims are made online
Calls to helplines for all department’s services will be toll-free by the end of 2017
Socitm and Eduserv launch shared services audit tool for councils
Online platform will help assess readiness for new engagements and performance of existing deals
Ministry of Defence signs £400k paging services deal
Ageing communications platform gets another boost from the UK public sector
Social networks could face same regulation as news sites, government says
Prime minister’s spokesperson claims government is examining ‘the role Google and Facebook play in the news environment’
GDS preps large-scale rollout of GovWifi and predicts it will ‘change the way civil servants work’
Wireless internet service passes beta assessment and is now available in more than 100 locations across the UK
Digital chief lifts lid on how HMRC pulled off the biggest tax change in 70 years without anyone noticing
Interim CDIO Mike Potter also discusses how the department is leading the way on mobile apps and blockchain, and why he wants a tax service built around life events
NHS app to offer GP appointments and access to medical records
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt announces plans for England-wide rollout of platform, which will also provide 111 access and repeat prescriptions
Highways England looks to wearable tech to ‘monitor location and wellbeing’ of staff
Motorway workers set to be equipped with ‘discreet, robust, and lightweight’ piece of kit
ICO fines Islington Council £70,000 after website endangers 89,000 people’s data
Parking ticket review service permitted unauthorised access to citizen data, investigation finds
Ordnance Survey to launch first augmented reality offering
New addition to mobile app will be shown to members of the public for the first time at next weekend's Countryfile Live show
All GP surgeries in England to have WiFi by the end of the year
Hospitals and secondary-care facilities to follow in 2018, NHS Digital has announced
Interview: Inside one further education college’s virtual desktop revolution
As it moves to a new £53m flagship campus, Ayrshire College has removed the distinction between IT and general-purpose classrooms. Sam Trendall meets ICT manager Brad Johnstone to hear more
Group chat an indispensable tool within Whitehall
Group chat services can make civil servants more efficient by reducing email overload. If government does not embrace them, it will lose out
Kent Police seeks multimillion pound overhaul of crime scene info systems
South East police force is looking for a supplier to build a new digital asset management system that could be rolled out right across the UK