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Authority awards a nine-month deal worth £1.9m to Socitm Advisory and launches £2m tender for a longer-term transformation partner

Auditor general Amyas Morse flags up three key issues that government must focus on to improve its work with private-sector suppliers

Council hopes pilot will show potential for enabling more efficient routes and timetables

New report shows low adoption of next-generation connectivity in some major cities

Council’s cabinet to vote on proposal to work with a technology partner to realise the city’s ambitions

Industry expresses regret as one of government’s most visible digital advocates is given a new job

CognitionX founder and Southampton University professor Wendy Hall also picked for AI-focused roles

City’s local authority seeks provider for five-year contract

Measures unveiled in bumper research funding package include 100 additional AI PhDs

Missing man spotted on images provided by flying device

Report from RSA finds that most people oppose use of automated decision-making in various areas of public service

In his foreword to Policy Exchange report on digital government, former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude opines that ‘progress has slipped in recent years’

Supply-teaching and facilities-management frameworks will be among first to be hosted on new web store, as procurement agency also looks to refresh underlying e-sourcing technology

Institution issues prior information notice announcing imminent replacement of existing Hydra platform

While GDPR is right to provide individuals with greater control over how their information is used, the benefits of sharing data should not be overlooked, believes Rose Lasko-Skinner of Reform

Philip Hammond vows that every building in the UK will have access to an FTTP network within 15 years

Disaggregation work continues but CGI’s dominance is disrupted only by a fellow outsourcing giant

Select committee report calls for algorithms to be added to a ministerial brief, and urges departments to publicly declare where and how they use them

Theresa May uses speech in Macclesfield to announce plans to work with technology sector and NHS to improve diagnoses

Department issues contract notice seeking external supplier for two-year contract to install unified communications environment

Potential 10-year deal will be open to all police and fire services and will feature up to 20 suppliers of back-office technology