IPO announces two-year timeline for online patent service and digital hearings
Government agency publishes update on transformation plan
UK has potential to be cyber ‘world leader’, report finds
Think tank study praise ‘whole-of-society approach’ to policy but encourages development of...
Minister opens Horizon talks as tech industry leans on government to ensure membership of EU scheme
Technology secretary of state visits Brussels to discuss possible associate membership
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Scottish Government inverts tech procurement to help public sector buy ‘what you do not know exists’
The CivTech scheme starts with a problem, not a solution, and encourages public sector agencies to work with start-ups and entrepreneurs to develop ideas
Whitehall analysis function aims to promote data-science skills across government
Office for National Statistics to spearhead new civil-service profession
Drones and the city of the future
Nesta’s Flying High Challenge is working with five UK cities to explore the use of drones in the delivery of public services. PublicTechnology talks to programme manager Nishita Dewan to find out more
Thirteen UK cities picked to receive up to £95m for full-fibre rollouts
Government unveils first recipients of Local Full Fibre Network funding
Southend looks to smart-city future
Borough council looks to start process with three-month consultancy to develop strategy
Government puts £25m into six 5G test bed projects
Schemes across the UK looking at 5G use cases including farming, tourism, and transport receive funding from government scheme
Southampton Solent University to build £4m maritime simulator
Institution seeks supplier to develop and roll out technology for training naval officers
ONS extends open invite to potential new sources of data
Office for National Statistics is looking for partners in the private and public sector as it seeks to identify and make use of ‘data we don’t know about’
BEIS seeks head of DevOps to lead new desktop and cloud strategies
Department hiring for senior development role
RAF satellite aims to ‘beam video directly into the cockpit of fighter jets’
MoD invests £4.5m in space technology designed to help monitor and combat modern threat environment
Public sector research services DPS opened for business
Crown Commercial Service launches £170m contract allowing purchase of online and in-person research, as well as analytics
HMRC gets back on track with digital customer service in 2018
Department’s monthly figures show improvements in response times across the board, despite far greater volume of enquiries
How the UK Space Agency is improving public services from the exosphere
PublicTechnology talks to Sara Huntingdon about the Space for Smarter Government Programme’s work with Whitehall and the wider public sector
BSI works with libraries to offer online standards database
Libraries to be offered discounted version of standards body’s registry to help support local SMEs
Treasury Committee to examine digital-currency regulation
‘It is time Whitehall and Westminster understood cryptocurrency better’, committee member declares following period of extreme fluctuations
Public-sector AI code of conduct published
Nesta creates 10-strong list of principles it believes should define how government uses artificial intelligence and algorithms
Can digital ever replace a handshake?
A recent remote meeting has left Arden University’s Dr Ben Silverstone asking if videoconferencing is an example of technology progressing more quickly than our ability to adapt to it
How the University of Leeds is using digital to ‘break down the barriers’ between teachers and students
The institution’s director of digital learning professor Neil Morris tells PublicTechnology about the range of online courses the university now offers to learners worldwide, as well as how technology is changing the classroom experience
Crown Hosting CEO: ‘We have taken away all the cloud excuses’
PublicTechnology talks to Steve Hall about the framework’s achievements so far, its ambitions for its last year, and the secret to a successful public-private joint venture
West Yorkshire Police to roll out mobile scanners for on-the-spot fingerprint checks
Devices are designed to check against national criminal and immigration databases and return results in under a minute
Recruitment reforms to make it easier for Whitehall departments to bring in ‘highly specialist skills’
Exceptions added to Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles could allow for digital professionals to be brought in without full hiring process