Report highlights challenges for public sector in encouraging private investment into smart city technologies....
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Head in the Cloud?
The UK government says that it wants to move to the Cloud. Here’s why it’s not happening yet....
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Q&A: Tom Smith, MD at the Office for National Statistics Data Science Campus
Earlier this year the Office for National Statistics launched its Data Science Campus, promising to deliver ‘data science for public good’. Rebecca Hill spoke to its managing director Tom Smith to […]...
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Salford NHS trust to road test digital control centre model
If successful, data analytics project could be expanded across the NHS....
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Scottish councils failing on online social care assessments
Socitm suggests Scottish local authorities lag behind because they are not subject to the UK Government’s Care Act 2015...
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Could ID cards help stamp out benefit fraud?
Benefit fraud is worse than ever. Gary Pettengell asks if new technology is helping?...
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Marginal gains: An incremental approach to transformation
Budget constraints and practicalities might prevent councils from making large-scale changes to their IT systems. But, says Richard Whomes, even the smallest steps to modernisation can make a big impact....
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Councils improve performance on mobile optimisation
Socitm warns that councils lagging behind on mobile configuration risk shutting out users with disabilities....
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Local government ‘key audience’ for European data sharing initiative
European consortium will engage with local government ‘everywhere’ as part of open data project to give individuals greater control of their online data....
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Public Health England shake-up brings data focus
Executive agency announces shift in focus to surveillance, data, evidence, research capability and policy expertise....
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