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Scottish Government offers £2m of interest-free loans to help boost firms’ digital skills
Businesses given chance to make upfront tech investments with help of new fund
Government dedicates £1.3bn to attracting top science and tech talent
Measures unveiled in bumper research funding package include 100 additional AI PhDs
Boston to allow autonomous vehicle tests across city
Local company authorised to conduct trials on all roads throughout the largest city in...
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GDS Service Manual adds guidance to help departments ‘make the case for building the right thing’
New section on measuring benefits on agile projects added to document that helps government create services that comply with GDS standards
Matt Hancock urges schools to ban phones
Culture secretary says evidence shows that outlawing the use of mobiles is effective
Don’t Gamble with your password resets!
The cautionary tale of the Leicestershire teenager who hacked high-ranking officials of NATO allies shows the need for improved password security
Whitehall tech policy advisor rocks up on Love Island
Civil servant Zara McDermott has joined the ITV reality show
Sally Meecham unveiled as GDS interim COO
Civil servant returns to organisation to take operational reins
US Cyber Command outlines policy of ‘defending forward’
Command vision document strikes a more confrontational tone
‘It can really bring to life the work we do’ – how the DWP got social media savvy
Digital engagement leaders tell PublicTechnology about the department’s use of Twitter and LinkedIn to interact with citizens and potential and current employees
Government and police to set up £1.4m anti-gang social-media unit
New 20-person team to become centre of excellence for understanding and combating gang-related online activity
No way of determining value or efficacy of Universal Credit – but DWP has ‘no practical alternative’ but to press on, NAO concludes
Auditors acknowledge some progress has been made in the last five years and department insists programme is providing value
Government to implement £70m satellite tracking system for immigration offenders
Home Office seeks software and hardware platform for monitoring those being prosecuted for immigration offences
Ordnance Survey opens up MasterMap data to boost UK tech sector
More data likely to be made available under government licence in due course
Digital-identity policy function shifted from GDS to DCMS
Move follows the earlier transfer of data policymakers
MEPs call for suspension of Privacy Shield unless US complies with data-protection agreement
Cambridge Analytica revelations show need for ‘better monitoring’ of data-protection measures
Struggling to sleep? This app will read out GDPR legislation to aid your slumber
Calm has turned a section of the 57,509-word EU document into a sleep-inducing audio book
Cambridgeshire sets aside £11m to increase superfast broadband availability to 99%
County council issues contract notice seeking telecoms firms to fulfil stage four of Connecting Cambridgeshire project
Library rights laws extended to cover e-books
Authors of the seven million e-books borrowed from libraries each year will now receive government payment
Brexit demands force HMRC to put digital-transformation projects on hold
Department reportedly provides list of 39 technology and other reform programmes that are being paused or delayed
Lack of public support for AI risks ‘concerted backlash’, study suggests
Report from RSA finds that most people oppose use of automated decision-making in various areas of public service
A Closer Look – assessing a mixed first year for the Government Transformation Strategy
Rob Driver of techUK looks at the big questions facing the government as it approaches the halfway point of its big-ticket digital and data plan
Think tank calls for GDS to move into DCMS
In his foreword to Policy Exchange report on digital government, former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude opines that ‘progress has slipped in recent years’
Online service for paying car tax and insurance fines goes live
DVLA platform given thumbs-up after beta stage in which almost £2m was collected