Treasury found ‘lots of positives’ in virtual spending review process
Director general of public spending says remote work enabled people to be brought together more quickly
Ten remote-working hubs to be opened for Northern Irish officials
Northern Ireland Civil Service to implement ‘blended approach to remote working’
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...
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Government funds new UK Cyber Security Council
Former DWP chief security officer Claudia Natanson to chair new professional body
The pandemic has exposed the government’s broken digital promises
While other countries adapted seamlessly to digital doctors' consultations and online teaching, coronavirus showed how little progress the UK has really made, believes Jack Perschke of netcompany
DCMS upgrades Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation role
Department advertises for executive director to lead data-driven technology governance body
Scottish infrastructure plan commits £110m to digital public services
Strategy aims to adopt one of ‘widest’ definition of national infrastructure
Interview: How digital had 'a ringside seat' in Singapore's pandemic response
The Singaporean government’s response to Covid-19 has made extensive use of digital, devices, and data – not always uncontroversially. PublicTechnology talks to Kok Ping Soon, the head of GovTech Singapore, to find out more.
Ministers face calls for urgent action after Covid reveals ‘dangerous gaps in public data’
Poor use and presentation of information means government has ‘missed chances to save lives’, according to report from Full Fact
Digital skills gaps remain despite civil service adding 10,000 people last year
Study from IfG shows heavy recruitment across first three quarters of 2020
Government can no longer afford to shy away from tackling legacy IT
Now is the time for government to confront a tricky and long-standing issue, according to Eleonora Harwich of Reform
Tory MP: ‘What happened to electronic voting? It worked perfectly well’
Member of Procedure Committee James Gray encourages parliament to consider ‘innovations offered by the latest technologies’
Report calls for ‘more power’ in Whitehall to be centralised
UK’s top two civil servants should be handed more responsibility as part of drive to make Cabinet Office more effective, says IfG
Training aims to boost ‘technical and analytical skills’ of civil servants
Programme looks to reduce reliance on consultants
Police seek to ‘mitigate impact’ as work continues to restore huge volume of arrest data
Ministers stress mass deletion was result of ‘human error’
Seven in ten civil servants want to work from home at least three days a week
Survey conducted by FDA union finds 97% of officials want option of working remotely
Government shakes up digital leadership
Home Office tech chief Davinson appointed leader of newly created Central Digital and Data Office while Read arrives from MoJ to head up GDS
Cummings legacy little more than ‘rearranging some furniture’
Former head of NCSC Ciaran Martin believes that ‘war on Whitehall’ has ended – to minimal discernible effect
Innovative ideas invited for £25,000 Whitehall prize
Foundation set up in memory of late Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood seeks ideas for how to solve challenges created by coronavirus
Major IT firms added to cross-government strategic supplier list
Computacenter and AWS have, in the last 12 months, both been added to the list of the government’s foremost suppliers
‘We are capturing a comprehensive record of what government has been saying’
Keeper of the National Archives Jeff James on how coronavirus has reinforced the importance of public information
‘Next year shouldn’t be back to normal’
BEIS perm sec Sarah Munby discusses a year of securing millions of vaccines, delivering business loans, and providing guides to safer working
IPA head on working to ensure major-project success during a challenging year
Nick Smallwood discusses the key areas of focus needed for government to deliver transformation schemes
The four (non-coronavirus) public sector tech trends that will define 2021
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out the big issues that might shape the year ahead. Apart from that one.