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Survey finds many adults live in data poverty
One in seven in Scotland do not have sufficient data to meet basic needs
Nine in ten prescriptions now fulfilled electronically
Minister says paper options will remain available
Bradford to create ‘brick-for-brick virtual clone’ of city centre
Open-source project hopes to improve policy design and service delivery
Government abandons proposals for algorithm to calculate housing need
MHCLG announces it will not proceed with plans
Scottish Government appoints adviser to assist tech economy
Former Skyscanner senior exec Mark Logan will advise on how IT industry can help drive recovery
Birmingham tech leader hails return of innovation after exiting outsourced IT contract
Authority's engagement with Capita comes to an end
Scottish Government goes under the sea to boost islands’ broadband
Work to lay subsea cables will begin this month
Stroud council plans £400k digital drive
Gloucestershire town to implement digital platform
Digital identity plans to promote 'vouching' by professionals
Government will set legal requirements for digital identity providers rather than consider national identity cards
NAO finds government struggled with data needed to build shielding list
Report finds 126,000 people were told to shield unnecessarily, as well as 30,000 who had already died
‘We’ve launched 18 new digital services since the start of the pandemic’
Worcestershire County Council’s digital delivery leader Jo Hilditch tells PublicTechnology about how apps and digital platforms have supported the authority’s coronavirus response
Digitisation will help make census safe says ONS
Statistical agency hopes that three-quarters of responses in England and Wales will be digital
Vendor view: The impact of Covid on local government’s supplier relationships
PublicTechnology talks to David Hipwell from SAP Concur about the role of the public sector’s commercial partners in supporting transformation and how it has changed in the past year
MHCLG spends £9m on Microsoft licensing deal
Department inks three-year contract with Phoenix Software
Gloucestershire offers £80k for IT chief
County council seeks leader to work with suppliers, staff and elected members
Will local government transformation be set back by coronavirus?
Having long suffered from a scarcity of funding, councils could be forgiven for deprioritising investments in new tech. But public and private and sector leaders tell PublicTechnology that digital has never been more important.
Government’s ‘litany of failures’ leaves citizens facing many years of slow broadband
Public Accounts Committee points to need for more funding and legislative changes
Cheshire signs long-term Microsoft cloud partner in £35m deal
Local authorities ink six-year contract
BT wins £18m deal to provide Buckinghamshire public sector network
Telco appointed to five-year contract