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Government ‘mentor service’ to match up civil servants
Data-processing notice alludes to new platform for pairing up potential mentors and mentees
GDS seeks head of Brexit digital strategy
Role comes with remit to assess readiness across government
How HMRC is working with universities to meet government's ‘big challenge’ of competing for digital skills
Future talent chief Lisa Rowley talks to PublicTechnology about the growth of the department’s work placement scheme and why, to compete with private sector giants, government needs to ‘get out there and tell our story’
NHSX names Whitehall tech bigwig Gould as chief executive
New health-service technology organisation appoints DCMS digital head as leader
‘A new era for schools’ – government unveils £10m education technology strategy
Minister pledges a range of measures to support improved procurement, delivery, and use of IT
HMRC offers £115k each for quartet of tech chiefs to drive transformation
Department seeks leaders for mobility, networks, hosting, and service management
DfE invests in apps to ‘revolutionise’ career advice for students
Government backs developers with £300,000 funding
Government implements open standards for cyberthreat intelligence
Users must adopt TAXII 2 and STIX 2 to analyse and share data on attacks
Government launches digital times tables tool for primary schools
Institutions can register for online system
Met Office seeks chief information security officer
National weather service recruiting for security chief
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
GDS to take flagship Sprint event on the road
Annual digital government gathering expanded into five-city roadshow
Two thirds of SMEs unimpressed by government efforts to open up
A large and growing number of small firms also believe that government will miss its SME spending targets, techUK research reveals
Government Race Disparity Unit to join data ethics centre in algorithmic bias probe
Investigation will explore possibility of human biases being reinforced by AI systems
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
‘A vibrant cyber sector could revitalise post-industrial towns’ – Labour MP Platt
Shadow Cabinet Office minister to tell PublicTechnology event that a regionally led approach focused on delivering skills for the public good could stimulate deindustrialised communities
Will Brexit slow down public sector digital transformation?
At a recent roundtable event, PublicTechnology and Gamma brought together a range of senior digital professionals to discuss the looming spectre of the UK’s exit from the EU, and what it means for transformation initiatives
Digital expansion has made DCMS ‘safe from extinction’, says departing perm sec
Dame Sue Owen claims the department’s growth into technology and data policy areas has been a success
Deputy first minister flags up importance of Scottish cyber resilience
John Swinney tells Holyrood conference that most attackers are ‘exploiting the same basic failings’
‘Does GDS still have a role to play?’ – Cunnington faces MPs
The ongoing select committee inquiry into digital government did not pull any punches when it heard oral evidence from GDS director general Kevin Cunnington. But was the digital government chief left on the ropes?