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Response to FOI request also reveals that department spends £66m a year on IT

Study finds that a quarter of officers need to access six or more databases in working on a single case

Rachel Neaman of Corsham Institute believes that facing down the challenge of online misinformation needs a long-term and wide-ranging strategy 

Policing minister pledges that Home Office will help forces invest in technology initiatives that enable officers to spend more time on the front line

Commissioner Tony Porter tells PublicTechnology about continued efforts to get the Home Office to recognise the need for a surveillance camera code of practice that applies to NHS and education bodies

Department seeks supplier to bring IDENT 1 and IABS programmes under single service-management structure in project worth a possible £300m

Ministry concludes search for Mike Stone’s replacement with appointment of external candidate

Party makes IT gaffe on day of major reshuffle

Concern still mounting about ‘most disturbing issue to hit the industry for decades’

Organisation recruiting for role heading up ‘small, but growing team’

Supplier sought to kick off project by engaging with the big four mobile network operators

Group of 15 public bodies pool their requirements for devices and data

Public urged to be vigilant of fraud in which victims are instructed to buy digital vouchers to pay fictitious tax bills

Holyrood looks to build platform similar to the GDS’s Verify tool

Space for Smarter Government Programme plans two one-day courses to introduce public servants to satellite technology

With less than six months until new data-protection law is introduced, PublicTechnology hears from regulators and data professionals across central and local government about what they see as the major challenges facing them between now and 25 May

MPs flag Whitehall’s poor record at delivering critical border programmes

Nine companies to make the cut given the chance to present their technology to digital minister

Two reports – from Reform and Lord Holmes – flag up the transformational potential of the distributed ledger technology

Department publishes new strategy document that looks to embed technology in both strategy and operations

Executive agency of MoD recruiting £117,000 CTO and two other senior posts