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GDS Service Manual adds guidance to help departments ‘make the case for building the right thing’
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The ten key questions – and nine answers – facing the public sector on GDPR
With less than six months until new data-protection law is introduced, PublicTechnology hears from regulators and data professionals across central and local government about what they see as the major challenges facing them between now and 25 May
Government extends online passport renewal service
Service now available for citizens aged 16 and over
CCS expands ‘technology expense management’ across public sector with £8m framework
Procurement body seeks two suppliers for three-year deal
Defra seeks two £90k technology leaders as it centralises group IT function
Department advertises for two deputy director-level posts
Department for International Trade working on ‘20 transformation projects’
Whitehall’s youngest department puts digital at the heart of its plan
Government puts forward changes to surveillance law in light of ECJ ruling
Alterations to so-called ‘snoopers’ charter’ opened for public consultation
CCS tech chief: ‘We need one marketplace for the future’
Crown Marketplace will ultimately supplant Digital Marketplace, technology category director asserts
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
Government leads Industrial Strategy with pledge to make UK an AI world leader
White paper also lays out ambition to use technology to address issues of ageing and mobility
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
Universal Credit claimants to get online option to apply for advances in ‘spring 2018’
New digital service to be created following £1.5bn support package unveiled in the Budget
Geospatial Commission launched to 'turn government data into jobs and savings'
Open Data Institute among those to welcome creation of new body
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
‘Running towards change’ – government uses Budget to bet big on digital and data
A comprehensive round-up of a wide range of measures that commit more funding, create new bodies and programmes, and change the legislative landscape of public sector technology
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
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
Review calls for Treasury to push Whitehall on better use of data
Report from Sir Michael Barber also urges departments to be more receptive to ‘disruptive innovation’
Driverless cars set for Budget boost
Chancellor set to propose changes to regulation to help the UK ‘take full advantage’ of emerging technology
‘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
Extra 1,000 tech visas and £20m govtech fund among PM’s measures to boost UK digital sector
Government details a range of programmes designed to promote the UK technology sector