Developers on demand: Home Office signs £5m IBM deal for short-notice access to digital skills
Department signs bench agreement with tech giant
Whitehall’s top official admits need to improve civil service technical skills
Simon Case claims government has improved data handling and support for innovation but there is...
Information commissioner expresses transparency concerns and calls for FOI updates
Outgoing data-protection watchdog tells MPs that ‘ministers and government are not walking the...
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Minister under fire for replacing phone before it was searched in procurement proceedings
Transparency campaigners question why Lord Bethell’s documents cannot be retrieved
Leader sought for healthtech and innovation agency
Salary of £110k on offer for new head of Office for Life Sciences
Scottish Government sticks with homeworking advice as restrictions lift
Employers are also encouraged to move towards a hybrid model in the longer term
MoD offers first-ever bug bounty to find vulnerabilities in defence systems
Department runs 30-day exercise in partnership with ethical hackers
Northern Irish vaccine certification app gradually expands availability after shaky start
Citizens can obtain digital documentation for travel dates in the next two weeks
Sunak encourages young people to return to the office
Chancellor says the connections made in the early part of his career would have been harder to forge ‘over Teams and Zoom’
HMRC sets 2023 shutdown date for CHIEF customs platform
One year shy of its 30th birthday, outgoing system will be finally and fully replaced by Customs Declaration Service
NHS explores ‘digital staff passports’
System is intended to make it easier for health-service workers to move between roles
Covid app updated to reduce isolation alerts
Fewer contacts of asymptomatic cases will be advised to self-isolate
GDS floats two £2m contracts to progress single sign-on plans
Digital agency seeks support with authentication and architecture of new government-wide system
Cabinet Office warned procurement shake-up could ‘promote competition over collaboration’
Parliamentary committee flags up risk to innovative partnerships between public bodies and third sector
‘We need to use tech to keep up with scams’ – UK advertising regulator
David Currie explains that there is an ‘arms race’ between web platforms and criminals that are equally sophisticated
NHS seeks £15m mobile contract to support vaccine rollout
Bidders sought for voice and data deal
Inspector sought to examine plane crash data
Air Accidents Investigation Branch offers role gathering data on incidents
Plymouth offers £100k for new digital chief
Newly created role comes with a remit to use data in service delivery
NHSX testing options for new IT system allowing pharmacists to add notes to patient records
Ambition is to deploy NHS-wide interoperable IT systems
Government analyses social ‘narratives and influencers’ to support Covid response
Contract worth £1.4m signed at the start of the year
ONS digital team creates eight new roles in ‘ambitious expansion’
Statistics body recruiting for a range of positions
DWP picks £4m partner for nine-month digital support contract
Department seeks a range of expertise
Clinical trial participants can now access digital NHS Covid Pass
Those who took part in testing programmes can now demonstrate their status