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Department unveils plans to use digital in both its work delivering aid and its function as a part of government 

Ciaran Martin claims that ‘it is a matter of when, not if’ the country suffers a top-level category-one assault

Cabinet Office to build team of online experts to help ‘harness power of technology for good’

Local authority looks for supplier to provide integrated HR and payroll platform

Closures of eight physical locations under consideration

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

Policing minister pledges that Home Office will help forces invest in technology initiatives that enable officers to spend more time on the front line

Authority in Somerset looks to create a platform to improve services, create efficiencies, and enable data-sharing

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

Organisation building centralised team to help Whitehall manage the digital implications of leaving the EU while maintaining longer-term transformation goals

Partners of fallen firm pledge that work to roll out networks across the UK will continue as scheduled

European Commission and member states to invest in programme to buy and maintain four of the ultra-powerful machines

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

Supplier sought for three-year project to install technology at Jessop Wing Maternity Hospital

Cabinet Office policy paper reveals ambitions for 10-year rollout of shared services strategy

Agency seeks supplier to facilitate online publication of information gathered through national survey as it nears 100-year cut-off

British Overseas Territory Saint Helena publicises three-year contract to be awarded for provision of hardware, software, and services

Ministry concludes search for Mike Stone’s replacement with appointment of external candidate

PublicTechnology talks to the think tank’s digital and data specialist Eleonora Harwich about how AI could help eradicate disparity in the quality of healthcare and why GDS needs to focus more on the needs of its colleagues in Whitehall

New jobs for former GDS minister Caroline Nokes and digital minister Matt Hancock, with no word yet on if they will be directly replaced and by whom

Care Quality Commission given new powers to rate a range of independent healthcare providers