IPO announces two-year timeline for online patent service and digital hearings
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UK has potential to be cyber ‘world leader’, report finds
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Technology secretary of state visits Brussels to discuss possible associate membership
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Whitehall should embrace, not fear automation, says civil service CEO
John Manzoni tells civil servants that use of RPA could create more time for work with customers
Interview: NHS Digital director on ‘the power of technology to transform patient care’
Eve Roodhouse talks to PublicTechnology about the organisation’s 2018 plans, the impact of WannaCry – and how an app has helped her family’s dental regime
Operations postponed and ‘backlog’ warning issued following two NHS outages
Manchester network and Welsh datacentres suffer simultaneous downtime
Lancashire Constabulary launches Alexa skill
New voice-activated app will provide community updates and circulate missing and wanted persons information
MoJ’s bungled tagging project hurt by needless ‘all-singing, all-dancing procurement approach’, PAC finds
As ambitious scheme continues to see delays, department accepts that it ought to be more willing to buy off-the-shelf technology
Nine in ten businesses and charities have done nothing to prepare for GDPR, government research finds
DCMS study finds majority of organisations in private and third sectors have never even heard of soon-to-be-implemented legislation
Bursting the bubble – the ethics of political campaigning in an algorithmic age
The ICO’s investigation into the use of data and analytics in campaigning is likely to prompt the creation of a new code of conduct for political parties, according to information commissioner Elizabeth Denham
DFID lays out three-year digital strategy to help create ‘transformed global aid system’
Department unveils plans to use digital in both its work delivering aid and its function as a part of government
Major cyberattack on UK likely in next two years, warns NCSC chief
Ciaran Martin claims that ‘it is a matter of when, not if’ the country suffers a top-level category-one assault
Government to ramp up social-media skills in bid to ‘tackle false information’ online
Cabinet Office to build team of online experts to help ‘harness power of technology for good’
Bristol City Council prepares for £4m software overhaul
Local authority looks for supplier to provide integrated HR and payroll platform
HMCTS consults on court closures as digitisation programme rolls on
Closures of eight physical locations under consideration
Eduserv datacentre closure to leave public-sector clients in need of a new hosting home
Public sector ICT charity to migrate all customers – understood to include local and central government bodies – by the end of 2018, after deciding public cloud is the way forward
Government urges police to transform ‘for the digital age’
Policing minister pledges that Home Office will help forces invest in technology initiatives that enable officers to spend more time on the front line
Sedgemoor District Council lays out digital-transformation plans
Authority in Somerset looks to create a platform to improve services, create efficiencies, and enable data-sharing
Regulator urges government to mandate NHS compliance with surveillance camera code
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
GDS offers £118k in search for leader of newly created digital Brexit team
Organisation building centralised team to help Whitehall manage the digital implications of leaving the EU while maintaining longer-term transformation goals
Government superfast broadband plans will suffer ‘minimal impact’ from Carillion collapse
Partners of fallen firm pledge that work to roll out networks across the UK will continue as scheduled
EU unveils €1bn supercomputing scheme
European Commission and member states to invest in programme to buy and maintain four of the ultra-powerful machines
Are confusing bid notices leading to ‘bad outcomes’ for government digital projects?
Research from digital specialist dxw finds that suppliers on key digital framework find most opportunity notices lack clarity on customer needs, desired outcomes, and budget
Sheffield NHS trust to implement electronic baby tagging
Supplier sought for three-year project to install technology at Jessop Wing Maternity Hospital