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Takeaway app to deliver support for Covid testing
Government to work with Deliveroo to help combat new variants
National Infrastructure Bank opens to support investment in digital
New institution based in Leeds will have £12bn to invest
Information commissioner speaks out against current uses of facial recognition
Data watchdog says all investigations conducted by her office of live systems have found illegality
GDS begins online user monitoring to improve GOV.UK performance
Anonymised information on devices and connections could help find ‘problematic pages’
Social justice: how the police can embrace online channels of citizen communication
PublicTechnology talks to Salesforce about why police forces need to adopt new omnichannel capabilities, offer the public channel choice and the benefits of doing so
London schools seek £50m antivirus partner
London Grid for Learning floats potential nine-year deal
Government facing legal challenge as DCMS admits use of automatically deleting messages
Campaign groups Foxglove and The Citizens to launch court case in two weeks if practice is not stopped
DVLA takes advantage of government MoU to keep Microsoft in cloud mix
Deal signed under public sector-agreement put in place last year
HM Passport Office picks Atos for £20m five-year digital support deal
Home Office agency to work with French IT heavyweight
‘We are forcing ourselves to differentiate on quality’ – government commercial chief on social-value buying rules
Gareth Rhys Williams says new guidance will mean that ‘we don’t give everyone eight out of ten’
NHS spends £2.7m on extension to system capturing patient data from vaccine centres
Platform covers the collection of both clinical and non-clinical information
Oil and mining exec Mackenzie picked to head UK Research and Innovation
Former BP and BHP senior manager chosen as new boss of research funding body
Website aims to reimagine citizens’ relationship with land
Scottish Land Commission opens new digital platform
SMEs have limited trust in government procurement
An annual survey from techUK shows that significant barriers remain for smaller firms wishing to supply government, according to Henry Rex
Shredded government docs turned into toilet paper
Contract for secure disposal signed with social enterprise
GDS signs £5m contract extensions with Verify partners to support new sign-ups until April 2022
Deals awarded to Post Office and Digidentity also include the transfer of data to government
Cabinet Office mulls future civil service homeworking arrangements
Unions counsel against attempts to instigate ‘big bang’ return to offices
DCMS study flags up potential of online safety tech market
Government-commissioned report finds growth in number of companies and sector revenues