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Research from Dods ranks the performance of 29 of the government’s biggest IT suppliers

Government officials reported to have suggested that those applying for the right to remain in the UK could borrow a friend’s Android device

Existing operations chief to switch to post heading up organisation’s Brexit team

Government statistics agency appeals from charity and private sector in promoting digital inclusion

Department recruits for leader of newly created unit dedicated to leading the data policy agenda

As mega-deal with Capgemini and Fujitsu nears conclusion, department advertises for professional to lead management of contracts with up to 200 technology suppliers 

Housing agency appoints FutureGov founder Dominic Campbell as interim chief digital officer

Department also takes over BEIS remit for digital signatures in policy shake-up

Department insists automation drive is employee-led

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham confirms warrant has been served on UK company

Role comes with a remit to oversee the development and rollout of a number of big-ticket products and services

CSW's sister title PublicTechnology talks to Sara Huntingdon about the Space for Smarter Government Programme’s work with Whitehall and the wider public sector

 

All participants in tax-appeal hearings to take part remotely during trial scheme

Department plans ‘modernisation’ of its work to collect more than £1bn owed to the government each year

Response to FOI request also reveals that department spends £66m a year on IT

Study finds that a quarter of officers need to access six or more databases in working on a single case

All government departments will sign the Tech Talent Charter, including a pledge to submit anonymised diversity data

BEIS and DCMS seeking head for new jointly run Office for Artificial Intelligence

New deputy director will lead centralised team helping Whitehall manage the digital implications of leaving the EU while maintaining longer-term transformation goals

Department seeks supplier to bring two programmes under single service-management structure in £200m-plus project

Organisation recruiting for role heading up ‘small, but growing team’

Supplier sought to kick off project by engaging with the big four mobile network operators

Candidate will also be tasked with leading review of how legislation could be modernised following EU withdrawal

PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall examined the challenges and rewards of driving the government's digital transformation

Current academy leader Sweeney reveals impending move to Australia, as skills and training organisation also lifts lid on plans to collaborate more with other governments

Partially government-owned Behavioural Insights Team publishes results of trial schemes and urges Whitehall to take notice

FCO teams up with DFID and British Council to tender for four-year framework to provide networking to 550 sites in the UK and throughout the world

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

Commons committee concludes DoH and NHS England did not do enough to determine whether patients were harmed by correspondence backlog

Crown Commercial Service gathering information to ensure typically busy period is negotiated smoothly

Two reports – from Reform and Lord Holmes – flag up the transformational potential of the distributed ledger technology

After calling time on a long civil-service career earlier this year, the former Directgov and GDS leader discusses how digital government has evolved during the 20 years he spent as one of its leading advocates

Document from Government Commercial Function offers advice on how to best to decouple from monolithic contracts

Government issues edict instructing public bodies to move email and websites to gov.uk and other new domains

Post will also involve creation of analytics tools and platforms for minimising fraud