Surrey seeks digital leader to help drive £250m annual savings
Newly created role comes with brief to ‘transform service delivery’ of county council
Government invests £15m to boost cybersecurity of Commonwealth nations
Countries also sign cyber cooperation pledge
Work on customs system 'on track', vows HMRC chief
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BSI works with libraries to offer online standards database
Libraries to be offered discounted version of standards body’s registry to help support local SMEs
De Montfort University invites bids for £670k project to get on top of legacy data and systems
Institution invites suppliers to help manage process of warehousing, archiving, and deleting data
London councils’ GDPR-compliance budgets range from £1,000 to £300,000
Policy paper from Parliament Street think tank recommends increased use of shared services
Law to require slaughterhouses to install CCTV
Three months’ worth of footage must be made available to regulators
GDS offers £135k for delivery and support head
Organisation seeks leader of delivery and support functions to manage 550 staff and £85m annual budget
Top-tier data-processing fees rise sixfold to £2,900 in new ICO funding structure
Large organisations that process personal data will see their annual subsidy contribution rise from £500
Barnsley kicks off early-engagement exercise for digital-mobility plans
Local authority issues call for input from potential suppliers
D5 becomes D7 as Canada and Uruguay join global digital-government collective
Nations join UK and others by signing organisation’s charter
GDS to ramp up programme to encourage Whitehall data-literacy
Courses set to be added to GDS Academy this year, after successful completion of pilot training scheme
NHS calls for more developers to get involved in apps library
More external assessors likely to be appointed as health service looks to become foremost provider of digital health tools
Treasury Committee to examine digital-currency regulation
‘It is time Whitehall and Westminster understood cryptocurrency better’, committee member declares following period of extreme fluctuations
MPs tell government to invest in Defra IT systems to minimise Brexit disruption to imports and exports
Environment select committee also calls on department to publish ‘sector-by-sector analysis of the impact of Brexit’
NHS organisations planning local IT-integration projects, research indicates
Study from iGov Survey and BT reveals that most technology decision makers expect to integrate IT systems with other local bodies at some point in the next two years
Public-sector AI code of conduct published
Nesta creates 10-strong list of principles it believes should define how government uses artificial intelligence and algorithms
Ex-DWP perm sec Devereux says digitisation got in the way of Universal Credit policy revamp
Departing departmental chief claims that programme to reform welfare while driving services online should have ‘had a twin-track strategy from the start’
NHSmail to integrate with Office 365 to aid health-service data-sharing
NHS Digital announces plan to integrate health-service email tool with Microsoft SaaS suite
EU data-protection agreement need not compromise Brexit trade deals – techUK CEO
Trade body leader Julian David writes to international trade secretary Liam Fox to argue that the UK must adhere to data-protection rules to remain a tech-industry leader
Government agreement to see church spires used to boost rural broadband
Church of England, DCMS, and Defra sign accord to improve connectivity
Mansfield seeks £50k partner for digital transformation
District council looks for specialist firm to help set agenda
HMCTS to pilot first ‘fully video courtroom’
All participants in tax-appeal hearings to take part remotely during trial scheme
Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital consultant Eccles picked as NHS CCIO
Dr Simon Eccles becomes the health service’s most senior medical leader for technology, replacing Keith McNeil