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North Lanarkshire to undertake £12m cloud transformation
Local authority looks to build ‘digital capabilities’
GDS to take flagship Sprint event on the road
Annual digital government gathering expanded into five-city roadshow
Busting the myth that a computer science degree is required to work in the tech industry
Kathy Schneider of Sungard Availability Services argues that the technology sector needs to promote the variety of routes people can take into the industry
Deputy first minister flags up importance of Scottish cyber resilience
John Swinney tells Holyrood conference that most attackers are ‘exploiting the same basic failings’
‘Does GDS still have a role to play?’ – Cunnington faces MPs
The ongoing select committee inquiry into digital government did not pull any punches when it heard oral evidence from GDS director general Kevin Cunnington. But was the digital government chief left on the ropes?
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport gets new chief
Current Cabinet Office director general Sarah Healey will replace Sue Owen at the start of next month
“It’s a discipline in demand”: BEIS CDIO Karl Hoods on hiring data scientists in government
‘Future is bright for data scientists in public sector,’ says department’s IT leader
DCMS looking for deputy director of IT
Department offers candidates up to £80k a year for Westminster-based position
NHS Digital offering up to £85k for data science, business intelligence and visual analytics roles
Experts with Master’s degrees or extensive experience will be considered
Interoperability and funding remain barriers to healthcare transformation
The problems facing digital and data initiatives in the NHS are only ‘10% technical’, conference told
GDS staff attrition rate rises 10 points in three years to 31%
But director general Cunnington insists organisation is ‘entirely comfortable with the situation’
NAO report finds Verify exemplifies ‘failings we often see in major programmes’
Auditors flag up a range of targets missed and benefits not delivered
‘Innovation is problematic when it is behind the scenes’
Jeni Tennison, CEO of the Open Data Institute, talks to PublicTechnology about the organisation’s work with government and how to balance risk and reward in the use of open data
DVLA offers £120k for new CTO
Role comes with remit to design strategy to ‘modernise IT architectures and systems’
Government criticised for spending £100k on export podcast flop
Just 8,400 people have listened to the ‘Local to Global’ podcast, equating to £12.74 per listener
Government to use TV ads to point people towards no-deal guidance site
Comms campaign to promote online advice and info will ramp up in the coming weeks
Digital minister James signals willingness to quit over no-deal Brexit
Margot James says she ‘couldn’t be part of a government’ that oversaw the UK departing the EU without a deal
Government puts tech apprentice programme on hiatus
Cabinet Office reveals that civil service Fast Track scheme, which covers six core professions, is ‘under review’
Hancock bans pagers from NHS in latest salvo against ageing tech
Following on from his edicts against faxes and letters, health secretary takes aim at another old-school piece of kit
The Government Transformation Strategy - has it stuck?
Published in February 2017, the Government Transformation Strategy oulined a bold vision for comprehensive and enduring reform, and set a range of ambitious targets. As we enter the final stretch of its three-year itinerary, we examine the progress made to date, and how far is left to travel