Leader sought to ‘manage government’s relationship with world’s most powerful technology companies’
Salary of almost £70k on offer for head of Big Tech Strategic Engagement Unit
Innovate UK nabs tech exec Mukerjee as new chief
Former insurance and electronics bigwig becomes innovation agency's first permanent head in...
HMRC shared 5,000 citizen records with local councils in pilot ‘to analyse vulnerable and overlapping debtors’
Newly published information-sharing register reveals programme took place last autumn
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Academia helps boost Scottish cyber sector
Report finds university spin-outs and degree courses are big contributors to success
ICO strengthens technology team and plans more recruitment
Regulator brings in Stephen Almond from World Economic Forum
HMRC offers two days of homeworking each week in standard contract
Document will bring working conditions in line
GOV.UK Verify gets ‘health check’
Cyber specialist awarded £14,000 six-month contract
Work ongoing but no delivery date for digital ID cards for veterans, minister says
Process was originally slated to conclude by the end of 2019
Police seeks public views on body-worn cameras
Force in Scotland says process will help ‘address any ethical and community-related concerns’
HMRC confirms leader for £300m cloud migration programme
Denise Dourado formally appointed as SRO
Ministers face calls for urgent action after Covid reveals ‘dangerous gaps in public data’
Poor use and presentation of information means government has ‘missed chances to save lives’, according to report from Full Fact
Parliamentary committee to investigate civil service churn
MPs request years of data to support probe
Government consults on land laws relating to installation of telecoms infrastructure
Changes to legislation in 2017 have not had desired effect
Online harms: Government retains option of criminal sanctions against social media companies
Planned legislation would not rule out the potential for criminal sanctions to be brought against senior managers who fail to act on online harms, says chair of DCMS committee
Digital skills gaps remain despite civil service adding 10,000 people last year
Study from IfG shows heavy recruitment across first three quarters of 2020
NHSX chief: Clinicians were ‘too nervous’ to share data
Matthew Gould tells PublicTechnology event that complex language around data standards had meant most staff were afraid to share patient data even in cases where it would aid delivery of care
MHCLG spends £9m on Microsoft licensing deal
Department inks three-year contract with Phoenix Software
Tory MP: ‘What happened to electronic voting? It worked perfectly well’
Member of Procedure Committee James Gray encourages parliament to consider ‘innovations offered by the latest technologies’
Scotland urged to close healthcare ‘data gap’
Study from non-profit SCDI identifies narrow opportunity to invest in innovation
DfE programme evaluating long-term outlook for online learning
Minister says pandemic has provided ‘valuable intelligence’ on the role technology can play
Information commissioner’s term extended to allow successor recruitment
Elizbeth Denham will remain in post until November, at request of secretary of state
NCSC recognises cyber expert universities
Eight institutions across UK named centres of excellence
DHSC buys 16,000 iPhones for Test and Trace scheme
Department spends £4m on deal with Jigsaw24