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DSIT examines how ‘AI voice tech could significantly improve citizen’s experience’

The digital department wishes to connect with firms that could potentially offer technology to form

Scottish Government takes start-up accelerator around the world

Following a trial voyage to California, a programme through which state funding is used to
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Ministers set out proposals for crackdown on abusive online images

Tech firms will be required to remove non-consensual intimate images from platforms within 48 hours

Asylum: Courts service and Home Office hope to join up disconnected data systems by spring

As top officials admit uncertainty over case details and an inability for data to pass

Whitehall pensions backlog: Capita laments ‘incomplete’ data

Senior managers have claimed that the tech services firm inherited a backlog of more than

Government explores unified ID and verification system for businesses

Whitehall’s trade department has signed an agreement with a major tech supplier to examine the

GDS public sector monitoring ‘finding and fixing over 100 critical vulnerabilities a month’

A new offering enabling public bodies to track, and address, potential security issues already has

Transformation needs more finance nous, NAO head warns

In his yearly address to the House of Commons, government’s top auditor told parliamentarians that,

HMRC offers nudge tool via MTD software as providers cite ‘need to educate customers’

Department indicates its intent to work with industry partners to ensure greater effectiveness for software

Treasury chief: ‘AI can relieve staff of lower-value work’

As well as discussing new technology, second permanent secretary also told MPs that the organisation

Home Office previews plan to appoint £100m partner to manage datacentres

The department has just released an early planning notice, providing insight for potential providers that

Former DWP digital head honcho McKinnon joins Serious Fraud Office board

The digital expert, who led tech operations at the benefits department for over four years,

New Government Commercial Agency to launch on 1 April

A newly created unit, uniting and replacing the existing Crown Commercial Service and central procurement

Project seeks to bring data analytics to ‘analogue’ football policing

National digital body taps specialist supplier to probe possibilities of using technology to bring greater

‘Act now’ – NCSC leader issues warning for critical infrastructure providers

Following a recent attack on Polish power that has been attributed to Moscow, a senior

DWP perm sec Schofield to depart after leading ‘transformation journey’

Announcing his intention to leave later this year, the head of the benefits department pointed

Only 4% of users signed up so far for HMRC digital income tax ahead of April launch

Just weeks before more than three quarters of a million taxpayers need to begin keeping

GOV.UK mobile traffic tops 60% of all visits as app passes 300,000 downloads

Last year three in five people accessing the site did so on a smartphone, while
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