Proactive defence: A new take on cyber security
The traditional reactive approach to cybersecurity, which involves responding to attacks after they have occurred, is no longer sufficient. Murielle Gonzalez reports on a webinar looking at what organisations can do to take a proactive approach
Scottish minister warns on Westminster’s ‘hands-off’ approach to AI and requests urgent UK summit
Richard Lochhead compares technology to previous industrial revolutions and says government’s...
DWP, Home Office, MoJ and Defra launch £1bn tender for shared services tech providers
Departments look to sign joint deal with a software provider and a system integrator
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Digital ministerial posts up for grabs after mass resignations
Brace of positions in DCMS addressing national digital policy, infrastructure and online harms must now be refilled after resignations of Julia Lopez and Chris Philp
Technology, transformation and talent: is the public sector meeting its biggest reform challenges?
Local and central government experts joined a recent PublicTechnology webinar discussion exploring strategies to modernise public services and their progress so far
Top official cites tech transformation as central to civil-service job-cut plans
Simon Case tells MPs that adopting new technology is one of three key strands supporting efforts to reduce civil service headcount
Civil service cuts: DfT brings in £100k consultancy to help identify ‘options for digitisation’
Two-week ‘headcount efficiency review’ engagement aims to find possible cutbacks that could be achieved through use of technology
Railways: Digital signalling to be introduced from Grantham to London in £1bn rollout
Government unveils plan to ‘replace Victorian infrastructure’ across routes in counties to the immediate north of the capital
GDS offers £100k for strategy chief
Cabinet Office tech agency seeks leader to spearhead implementation of three-year plan
‘Remote monitoring and virtual wards’ – Javid unveils NHS tech transformation plan to clear Covid backlogs
Health secretary claims that use of NHS app is ‘at the heart of’ strategy to reform health service
GDS spent £5m on ‘data and user insights’ last year
Minister reveals organisation undertook a range of work to gain insights into performance of services
IPO clears patent backlog and claims digital services will help avoid future queues
Long-standing to-do list was cleared by recruitment of staff and dedication of resources to focus on key technology areas
Climate change: Government app to ‘encourage small lifestyle changes’
Environment agency signs £500k deal with software developer
Whitehall chief: ‘From AOs to perm secs – we all need to be data confident’
Government operations leader wants departments to make better use of the ‘huge amounts of data’ at their disposal
First five services to pilot new government-wide login from September
Minister says rollout of One Login will learn the lessons of previous projects and will not take a ‘big bang’ approach
Is the UK ready for the future of compute?
The government’s upcoming review should consider ways to increase the country’s computing capacity, believes Laura Foster of techUK
Government to move 2,500 officials to ‘digitally enabled’ Manchester hub
The city centre facility will include hundreds of civil service posts relocated from London
Digital minister: ‘I’m one up from a Luddite – but I am grasping this enthusiastically’
PublicTechnology met with the recently appointed Heather Wheeler, who reveals that overcoming difficulties with tech has been ‘an absolute joy’ – although she still appears to have some challenges with unfortunate remarks
Government considering use of unique IDs across justice system
Minister claims that efforts to replace legacy tech provide opportunity to adopt new system
HMRC offers £80k for head of service design
Tax agency seeks ‘experienced and inspiring leader’
National Crime Agency to revamp systems for banks to provide intel on organised crime
Law-enforcement entity seeks partner to help deliver programme to replace ageing platforms
NHS app to widen users’ access to health records
Strategy makes commitment to allow patients to view a greater range of information
Digital is ‘essential’ to civil service job cuts plan, departments told
Memo to finance and HR chiefs advises ministries to work with CDDO to assess potential tech projects
Watchdog warns of potential for ‘predatory’ firms to tap up mid-ranking officials
Eric Pickles suggests companies could exploit potential of recruiting digital regulation specialists and warns ‘departments are rubber-stamping things that are plainly wrong’