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
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Focusing on ‘digital civic moments’ could create a truly joined-up government
Peter Ford of Pegasytems believes Whitehall has both the necessary will and technology to achieve its ambitions of operating as a single entity
Met Police tenders for range of managed services to enable focus on ICT transformation
Force publishes details of four two-year services contracts as it plans transformation initiatives
CCS opens bids for £2.3bn Management Consultancy Framework Two
Creation of deal follows decision to scrap lot one of consultancy vehicle launched last year
Sandwell Council to equip environment officers with body-worn cameras
Metropolitan borough looks to acquire 12 devices to help environmental-protection unit capture incidents
Government to foster 70 start-ups at £13m London cyber centre
Development in Stratford could create 2,000 jobs, government claims
How to ensure cloud does not become the new outsourcing
Just as with outsourcing before it, cloud will not fix underlying operational complexity, according to Richard Blanford of Fordway
Department for Transport develops AI tool for handling correspondence
Department's digital team creates machine-learning tool for dealing with public enquiries
Interview: Surveillance Camera Commissioner discusses his mission to protect privacy and human rights
As an ever-greater volume of increasingly sophisticated devices watch us all, PublicTechnology talks to regulator Tony Porter about his office’s role in ensuring surveillance is always used ‘proportionately and sensitively’
NCSC picks IoT, cloud, and cryptojacking among UK plc’s biggest future threats
Cybersecurity agency issues report looking forward to coming dangers and back at year in which DDoS and ransomware hogged the headlines
Police Scotland invests in ‘cyber kiosks’ to extract data from mobile devices
Technology will allow officers to search smartphones under execution of warrant
Public sector procurement needs a serious rethink
Shaun Gomm of Sigma would like to see SMEs involved at every stage of the process
Rural broadband often three times slower than neighbouring towns, study reveals
Research from County Councils Network show west country and northern England lagging behind
West Yorkshire looks to build new online home
Combined authority seeks to unite all its disparate websites into newly designed site
DHSC takes to Twitter to canvas public opinion on organ donation
Department uses social-media conversation as part of consultation on potential move to opt-out model
London Grid for Learning looks to work with 1,000 new schools in UK expansion
CEO of capital-based not-for-profit trust that helps schools to get the most out of technology discusses plans to expand into the education space outside London and the wider public sector
Hackney to build prototype tool for ‘contextual’ approach to child safeguarding
London borough looks for supplier to help create platform for logging and analysing data on school, peer group, and neighbourhood
HMRC offers £96k for contract-management guru to oversee post-Aspire IT engagements
As mega-deal with Capgemini and Fujitsu nears conclusion, department advertises for professional to lead management of contracts with up to 200 technology suppliers
One in four people now use online GP services
The number of patients using an online account has grown 42% in the last year
Will the government’s latest shared services strategy deliver delight or despair to Whitehall?
Former senior civil servant Andrew Greenway looks at the reasons for both optimism and scepticism as the government embarks on another shared-services rollout
‘Students don’t necessarily want more digital – they just want it used better’
The innovation leaders of higher-education technology body Jisc talk to Gill Hitchcock about spreading digital excellence and developing shared services for UK universities and colleges
Homes England agrees partnership in bid to ‘become digital pioneer’
Housing agency to work with Accenture and FutureGov