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The digital strategy team at the Department of Health has revealed it is piloting a new, “leaner” approach to assessing its digital services, which focuses on just three core questions.

As the UK moves closer to seeing autonomous vehicles on its roads, Antonios Tsourdos, an engineer at Cranfield University, says the government must not forget the importance of public acceptance of the technology.

Study claims that 850,000 jobs could be lost to automation by 2030 and suggests that public servants’ patience is running thin over delays to digitisation.

The discovery phase of the next iteration of the cloud procurement platform has found that users struggle with ineffective searches, producing audit trails and difficulty comparing suppliers.

The government has hailed its work to create data registers as a major milestone in its move towards improving transparency, as set out in its action plan on open government. 

Scott Moore, business analyst for the Scottish Improvement Service, won a Socitm scholarship to research digital public service trend in Seoul during the summer. Here he looks back on he learnt during his summer investigating the city’s digital transformation.

Local government needs to move away from piloting digital services on the periphery of their work and focus on building digital in from the start, a conference has heard.

Paul Maltby, the Government Digital Service’s director of data, has become the latest in a line of senior leaders to leave the service.

The Government Digital Service is continuing its recruitment drive – as its Platform as a Service team resorts to hand signals in ‘frustrating’ team meetings.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has set out plans to bring all digital activity under one roof in a new digital strategy.

NHS Digital has confirmed it is making changes to some of its health statistics, but has rowed back on plans to stop a number of datasets.

The Government Digital Service has created a template to create Whitehall promotional campaign websites that follows the GOV.UK design principles.

RNIB inclusion guru Steve Tyler tells Gill Hitchcock that it makes sense for councils to build accessibility into their digital services. 

The Scottish government is advertising for a chief digital officer for social security for the second time this year as it gains control of benefit systems.

The slow roll-out of the government’s identity assurance programme Verify is holding the UK’s progress towards e-government back, according to Cagemini.

The Government Digital Service has pre-let the top two floors of a new development in London’s Whitechapel, at a rental cost of £2.8m a year.

Scotland’s cities could improve “significantly” on the way they use technology and innovation to drive growth, a report from the CITIE partnership has said.

Local government digital officers have said that councils need to be more honest about poor products from big suppliers and work together to demand change.

The Government Digital Service has set up an advice and assurance community to discuss issues about digital standards, as it comes to the end of a discovery project on service standards assessment.

The government has been urged to reconsider plans that would see the 2020 general election being held on the same day as the London elections.

Jane Roberts strategy director at Toplevel and asks whether more clarity is needed to stop departments from tying themselves in knots over what kind of ‘open’ to use.