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Natural History Museum seeks £5m platform to manage collections
Tool will form part of the museum’s new long-term strategy
Home Office seeks £20m digital security partner
Department seeks firms to provide ‘advice, leadership and governance’
DfE offers £115k for director of technology
Role comes with remit to manage department’s infrastructure networks and staff devices
Government backs council-developed apps for planning permission applications
Two programs aim to reduce number of invalid applications from homeowners
Billion-pound scheme aims to eliminate 4G blackspots
Shared Rural Network aims to ensure all four mobile network operators serve at least three quarters of Scotland
Government anti-fraud efforts hindered by ‘lack of real-time data sharing’
PAC report finds that coronavirus response has increased exposure and may have cost tens of billions of pounds in taxpayers’ money
Data suggests millions of users have not enabled NHS contact-tracing app
Program has been downloaded more than 25 million times, but the latest figures show only 16 million users have enabled it
How can the government innovation strategy position the UK for success?
The upcoming government plan should rethink the UK’s R&D system and use public procurement to support innovative companies, according to Neil Ross of techUK
DWP hopes to reduce three-month processing wait for National Insurance number applications after launching digital service
The suspension of services last year has caused a backlog
GDS seeks candidate from within civil service to lead GOV.UK
Successful applicant will be appointed to nine-month contract
DWP told to improve data sharing with Scottish Government on child benefits
Parliamentary committee flags up issues with flow of information
Scotland seeks tech solutions to public sector problems
CivTech initiative launches sixth iteration
GDS ramps up researcher recruitment
Digital agency looks to boost teams dedicated to GOV.UK, government as a platform, and digital identity
‘Disinformation has been weaponised at levels nobody imagined’ – Glasgow MP
SNP member Stewart McDonald publishes report mapping growing threat posed to Scotland
MI5 seeks chief data officer who is ‘comfortable with ambiguity’
Role comes with £100k-plus pay packet and remit to help lead transformation programme
Information commissioner speaks out against current uses of facial recognition
Data watchdog says all investigations conducted by her office of live systems have found illegality
GDS begins online user monitoring to improve GOV.UK performance
Anonymised information on devices and connections could help find ‘problematic pages’
Civil service supremo praises use of data and tech in light of ‘tricky questions’ raised by Covid
Cabinet secretary Simon Case writes says reform plan will help make government more innovative
Social justice: how the police can embrace online channels of citizen communication
PublicTechnology talks to Salesforce about why police forces need to adopt new omnichannel capabilities, offer the public channel choice and the benefits of doing so
Court judgments to be published on single website
Government claims moving information to National Archives site is ‘boost for open justice’
Government pledges to ‘set requirement to share data across departments’
Reform plan stresses ambition to improve use of tech and data