Manchester gets behind digital skills with £4m boost
Digital businesses among those to benefit from schemes aimed at creating a "pipeline of talent that meets employer needs"
Cyber security centre reveals active defence of government tech
National Cyber Security Centre annual report reveals it has dealt with 1,100 cyber attacks in its first two years
Suffolk online crime reporting doubles
Website improvements and new digital telephony system contributed to rise, Constabulary says
DVLA seeks digital accessibility endorsement
Agency aims to comply with international accessibility standard Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Department for Education announces digital skills overhaul
Qualifications push targets 11 million adults who lack basic knowhow
Home Office seeks 'police and public protection tech' leader
Deputy director role set to pay up to £105k a year
Belfast seeks innovations to manage public spaces
City council and Department of Justice put £120k in funding up for grabs
GLA to revamp London Mayoral election website
LondonElects wants partner to conduct full user research exercise before creating new website for 2020 elections
DHSC publishes ambitious digital vision for healthcare
Department call matched by new NHS Digital framework on data and technology standards
Making Tax Digital VAT pilot goes live
HMRC director says that new digital ways to pay tax will give businesses more control over their finances
‘GDS’s future mission needs clarifying’
A House of Commons inquiry into the work of GDS to data and the state of digital government has begun publishing its findings. PublicTechnology looks at what a range of experts have had to say
Why digital tracking could save firefighters’ lives
A Welsh fire service is calling for technology suppliers to collaborate on a digital tracking solution which could increase safety for fire crews across the globe. Gill Hitchcock reports.
'If none of our ideas fail, we are not being ambitious enough' - inside government's data science revolution
Tom Smith, managing director of the ONS Data Science Campus, tells PublicTechnology how and why he wants to 'move the needle' for the use of data across the public sector
How can the public sector manage cyberthreats?
In the wake of last year's WannaCry ransomware attack and a range of high-profile threats since then, PublicTechnology and Trend Micro invited a panel of experts to discuss how the public sector can build resilience and protect itself. Geoffrey Lyons reports.
Q&A: National Crime Agency CIO on progress of tech transformation
Following the recent annual update from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, the law-enforcement organisation’s IT leader provides on update on the rollout of cloud and other technologies
One Team Gov goes global
The government reform movement has snowballed to include both counterparts in other countries and the wider public sector. PublicTechnology went along to its first global event to find out more
We all need to utter the F word sometimes
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall looks at the public sector’s vexed relationship with failure
Sharing civil service smart-working secrets
HMRC has been lauded for its adoption of flexible working tools and practices. Luke Heselwood of think tank Reform believes the department’s Whitehall peers could learn from the tax agency’s example
Digital Marketplace SME sales data shows clouds in the silver lining
Chris Farthing of Advice Cloud digs beneath the headline numbers to find both good news and cause for concern for government’s SME suppliers
A vision for a Digital Scotland
Neil McEvoy of Digital Scotland explains how the country could learn from the low-cost and replicable systems implemented by Estonia, and why GovTech is huge opportunity for the Scottish Government
Why 2018’s school leavers will keep learning, unlearning and relearning for years to come
As techUK launches research to assess the readiness of students for the future working world, the industry body’s policy manager India Lucas looks at what lies in store for this year’s A-level students
Next steps for UK cybersecurity: legislation; skills; and security by design
Talal Rajab of techUK looks at the key elements that are contributing to a hugely important year for cybersecurity in the UK