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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

Office for National Statistics to spearhead new civil-service profession

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

Government unveils first recipients of Local Full Fibre Network funding 

Borough council looks to start process with three-month consultancy to develop strategy

Schemes across the UK looking at 5G use cases including farming, tourism, and transport receive funding from government scheme

Institution seeks supplier to develop and roll out technology for training naval officers

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’

Department hiring for senior development role

MoD invests £4.5m in space technology designed to help monitor and combat modern threat environment

Crown Commercial Service launches £170m contract allowing purchase of online and in-person research, as well as analytics

Department’s monthly figures show improvements in response times across the board, despite far greater volume of enquiries

PublicTechnology talks to Sara Huntingdon about the Space for Smarter Government Programme’s work with Whitehall and the wider public sector

Libraries to be offered discounted version of standards body’s registry to help support local SMEs

‘It is time Whitehall and Westminster understood cryptocurrency better’, committee member declares following period of extreme fluctuations

Nesta creates 10-strong list of principles it believes should define how government uses artificial intelligence and algorithms

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

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

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  

Devices are designed to check against national criminal and immigration databases and return results in under a minute

Exceptions added to Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles could allow for digital professionals to be brought in without full hiring process