Oxfordshire seeks £100k digital leader
Tech chief sought for district and county authorities’ partnership
Home Office seeks £3m partner to support digital response to ‘unprecedented number of challenges’
Department issues contract notice for organisation that can provide an array of commercial and project-management capabilities
Scottish and UK governments must work together better on broadband, report finds
Study from The Federation of Small Businesses urges Holyrood and Westminster to ‘bury the hatchet’
Government drops plan for age-verification for adult websites
The introduction of a so-called porn block has been shelved, culture secretary confirms
Government sets aside £400k for sex education training website
Schools to be given online resources to assist with rollout of new mandatory curriculum
Rail minister instructs train firms to get on board with smart ticketing by next year
Companies asked to send details of plans to make digital options the default by next year
Public Health England offers £118k for ICT leader
Executive agency recruits for leader to spearhead tech operations
HMRC still searching for new digital chief
Jacky Wright’s duties are being covered internally ‘in the very short term’
Suppliers picked for major Yorkshire and North East police IT framework
Four resellers chosen for potential £40m deal to provide all hardware and software
Interview: NHS CCIO on why transformation needs to be driven locally
Simon Eccles talks to Gill Hitchcock about AI, apps, open APIs and uniting innovative SMEs with clinicians to transform the health service
How digital records are changing NHS care in Wales
e-Health records are enabling pharmacists to make informed decisions about treating patients and relieve pressure on GPs, writes Gill Hitchcock
AI fought the law?
The relationship between artificial intelligence and the law is receiving ever greater focus – while somehow becoming less clear. PublicTechnology looks at the role that regulators and lawmakers will play in the coming years
AI Week: Turing Institute on why government should use data science to ‘make better policy’
Helen Margetts and Cosmina Dorobantu from the Turing’s public policy programme talk to PublicTechnology about ethics, explainability, and why government has ‘unique expertise’ it can benefit from
AI Week: A bias view
The potential for technology to embed and amplify systemic biases is seen as one of the biggest inherent risks of deploying AI and automation at scale. PublicTechnology talks to experts about the key issues and how they can be addressed
AI Week: Automation makes work less taxing for HMRC
In the last few years, the UK tax agency has automated millions of processes and it has ambitions to grow its use of AI into new areas. Tim East, CIO of customer compliance, tells PublicTechnology about the department's plans
What can the public sector learn from start-up culture?
While it might not need the beer fridges and bean bags, the NHS could learn something from the employee-engagement fostered by start-ups, believes Anas Nader of Patchwork Health
AI and public sector – combining to create high performance governments
Joel Cherkis from UiPath examines why governnments should not be thinking about whether to deploy either robotics or AI – but how the two can work in unison to deliver greater benefits
AI Week: can we forgive a robot and three other important questions
To introduce AI Week, PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall runs through four of the biggest questions facing the technology
Local government must embrace accessible-first web design
In much the same way that mobile-first design has taken hold, public bodies must embed accessibility considerations into their design processes, believes Jack Niland of Jadu Spacecraft
The public sector must ensure it does not leave the wrong kind of legacy
Government must eliminate ageing tech to ensure it is not left behind by society at large, believes Sascha Giese of SolarWinds
Tech firms should join a coalition of the willing to support interoperability for police IT
Jessica Russell of techUK believes increased collaboration between the emergency services and technology partners could deliver improved public-safety outcomes