Digital minister: ‘It’s important to the government that the British public has confidence in how we use their data’
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How Oxford University is using data to empower underrepresented groups in entrepreneurship
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Government should publish user research for the public good
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Is Matt Hancock forcing online regulation by the back door?
The unilateral decision to compel social media companies to work with charities on harmful content has not been subjected to the necessary scrutiny, believes tech policy expert Heather Burns
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Ben Moody of techUK explains why the new NHS tech organisation has been welcomed by suppliers
Breaking down barriers: how to improve SMEs' access to the public sector market
Research from techUK showed that smaller firms still face major challenges in winning government business. The industry body's head of public sector Henry Rex outlines why SMEs have both cause for concern and reasons to be cheerful
Government can ill afford not to invest in police technology
Calum Steele of the Scottish Police Federation explains why investment and legislative changes are sorely needed to help support officers’ use of technology
Busting the myth that a computer science degree is required to work in the tech industry
Kathy Schneider of Sungard Availability Services argues that the technology sector needs to promote the variety of routes people can take into the industry
Our response to online harms should focus as much on cure as prevention
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall believes that the government’s online harms strategy must address their impact, as well as their cause
Why box-ticking won’t help the NHS achieve our 10-year plan for digital
Sam Shah, director for digital development at NHS England, discusses how single-problem healthtech solutions do not align with the wider health technology vision
Action is needed now on digital identities
Ruth Milligan of techUK explains why the government must take the lead to ensure the UK implements a system of digital identities
Five ways councils can use data to improve services
Local authorities could benefit from the use of analytics and AI, according to Andy Barrow of ANS Group
Digital cannot deliver transformation if it is just a platform for bad policy
Neil McEvoy of Digital Scotland explains why country’s new social security programme is a change for technology and policy to unite to make a difference
The NHS Long Term Plan – five implications for health tech
Behind the headline focus on digital GP consultations, there were lots of other significant implications for health technology firms in government's recent plan for the future of the health service. Ben Moody of techUK digs into the detail.
How to deliver transformative NHS improvements at speed
Jonathan Lofthouse of Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust gives his eight-point action plan for implementing technology – and reaping its benefits – as quickly as possible
The three public sector technology trends that will define 2019
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out the topics and trends that will dominate the year ahead, and revisits the predictions of a year ago to see any of them came to pass
How Bolton and Wigan teamed up to tackle their cybersecurity challenges
Technology chief Dave Pearce explains how the two local authorities are working together to share data, technology, and services
Is G-Cloud broken?
For all its good intentions, the government's flagship digital services framework remains hamstrung by the wrong strategy and technical challenges, believes Romy Hughes of Brightman
The time is now to bridge the digital divide
Eliminating digital exclusion would reduce inequality and give the economy a multibillion-pound boost, according to Helen Milner of Good Things Foundation
How to create a blockchain-powered digital nation
Adopting the blockchain will help Scotland achieve its vision of becoming a fully digital nation and usher in an unprecedented era of economic growth, believes Neil McEvoy of DigitalScot.net
Current police ICT systems are in desperate need of change
John Kellet of public sector digital specialist Eduserv looks at what at the results of the annual Police ICT Survey tell us about the force’s tech set-up
The third sector must play a key role in ‘social digital government’
Government needs to make sure it is integrating resources from different places in support of common goals, according to Neil McEvoy of Digital Scotland
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