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DWP to create departmental content standard
Department works with GDS to create and implement a consistent style for all content
Windrush scandal fallout sees Home Office suspend data-sharing activities
Department to take three-month break from ‘proactive data sharing’ with other government...
Newcastle plans to become UK’s smartest city
Council’s cabinet to vote on proposal to work with a technology partner to realise the city’s...
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Why GDS is still losing the ‘parlour game’ of government
Martha Lane Fox and Mike Bracken, two of the key figures in the creation of GDS, believe the organisation remains stymied by major barriers in both the civil service and parliament
ICO flags urgent need for laws on political parties’ use of data and hits Facebook with £500k fine
Commissioner’s progress report includes revelations about UKIP’s non-compliance and a six-figure penalty for a pregnancy website that supplied data for Labour Party marketing
Jeremy Wright named DCMS secretary as Hancock is moved to health
Industry expresses regret as one of government’s most visible digital advocates is given a new job
Government unveils £7.5m funding and training scheme to boost local authority digital work
MHCLG and GDS also publish ‘digital declaration’ for councils to sign up to
Matt Hancock asserts that social media firms are not too big to regulate
Culture secretary vows that ‘we pass laws and people abide by them’
Waltham Forest recruits residents to test services
London borough builds 80-strong panel of citizens
‘Good things happen when you play nicely’ – GDS takes a new tack
Director general Kevin Cunnington gives speech detailing how the organisation has ‘changed the way we work with departments’
DfT to build nationwide open data portal for buses
Platform to contain information from councils and bus operations across England
NHS launches programme to take in private healthcare data
NHS Digital and Private Health Information Network agree major collaboration
‘Social value’ of bidders to be considered in award of government contracts, says Cabinet Office minister
David Lidington says Carillion collapse shows need to increase range of suppliers working with public sector
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 Massachusetts
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