Government’s inability to extract big data is causing it to miss the huge potential it has to improve policymaking, a leading academic in digital government has said....
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ICO to appoint a technology adviser role in effort to boost tech capacity
The Information Commissioner’s Office is to hire a chief technology adviser as part of work to build up its technology capacity, Elizabeth Denham has said....
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Top health tech awards go to Birmingham GP and Salford Royal NHS Trust
Birmingham GP and national clinical lead for NHS England’s Patient Online programme Masood Nazir has won the EHI award for clinical informatics leadership....
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Nesta issues innovation and technology to-do list for Scottish cities
Scotland’s cities could improve “significantly” on the way they use technology and innovation to drive growth, a report from the CITIE partnership has said....
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Government needs flexibility and support from providers, says Atos
Providers of government services must be ready to offer departments more flexibility, even when exiting from a contract, according to a report from supplier Atos....
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Councils urged to work together to challenge big vendors
Local government digital officers have said that councils need to be more honest about poor products from big suppliers and work together to demand change....
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GDS says service assurance discovery will report soon
The Government Digital Service has set up an advice and assurance community to discuss issues about digital standards, as it comes to the end of a discovery project on service […]...
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Scottish government announces innovation scheme winners
The Scottish government pilot scheme aiming to boost innovation in government has announced the winners of seven challenges aimed at finding digital solutions for public sector problems....
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Total G-Cloud sales approaching £1.4bn, government reveals
The latest G-Cloud sales figures show a slight decline in monthly sales in July, with local government sales remaining at just 5% of all-time sales....
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MoJ updates ‘painful’ service standard assessment process
The Ministry of Justice has set out plans to continuously review internal products, in an effort “revolutionise” service standard assessment....
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