Inside DWP’s digital coronavirus response – APIs, reuse and micro-services
In the face of huge demand for its services, the DWP was able to call on a library of reusable tools, the department’s integration lead Jacqui Leggetter tells PublicTechnology
NHS collates data from symptom-tracker apps
NHSX works with jHub to gather and analyse information collected by third-party software
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TfL releases night tube data for app developers
Transport for London has added data from the night tube – which ran for the first time on Friday – to its Application Program Interface to allow travel apps to use it.
Government launches digital record management tender
The government is looking for private sector suppliers to join a new £700m framework for records management, including services to convert paper records to digital.
Ministry of Justice pledges to update 'creaking PCs and snail-paced connections'
The Ministry of Justice has published a set of nine principles it will stick to as it updates outdated hardware that is making work difficult for employees.
GOV.UK Pay ticks payment card industry’s security box
The government has announced that its payment system GOV.UK Pay is compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
Leadership continuity for Digital Marketplace team as interim takes on full-time position
Warren Smith, interim director of the Digital Marketplace programme at the Government Digital Service, has been officially given the position full-time.
Mark Dearnley to leave HMRC in “day of the digital long knives”
HMRC’s chief digital officer Mark Dearnley is to leave the department when his contract runs out in September, it has been announced.
Mid Essex trust aims at faster record back-up
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS trust has chosen provider MCSA to revamp its IT infrastructure in a bid to save money and make backing-up records more reliable.
Tenacity and navel-gazing: Wigan’s road to digital success
Around 18 months ago, senior leaders at Wigan Council decided to take digital seriously. Since then the authority has won multiple awards for its transformation. Rebecca Hill asks Alison McKenzie-Folan, deputy chief executive director for customer transformation, about the journey.
Matching vision with investment: How councils can benefit from IoT
Council IT chiefs tell Sooraj Shah that, although the Internet of Things has huge potential for local government, it’s still early days for the technology.
Three-year digital health project says online skills could save NHS millions
A training programme to help vulnerable people how to use the internet to access healthcare services has saved the NHS as much as £6 million in avoided GP and A&E visits in a year, according to a report published by the Tinder Foundation.
From analysis to action: Next steps for doteveryone's digital exclusion heatmap
At the end of last year, the charity doteveryone launched its heatmap of digital exclusion across the UK to help communities take control of the situation. But where is the project now, and have councils paid attention? Rebecca Hill reports.
Digital Economy Bill lays path for greater public data sharing
Public authorities will be granted more powers to share their data with other bodies through proposals set out in the Digital Economy Bill, which was laid before Parliament yesterday.
Smart cities 'doomed to fail' without proper financing and senior buy-in
Local government lacks the understanding, budgets and leadership to create smart cities, a report has said.
More than 1,000 gov.uk domains found in breach of government rules
An audit of gov.uk domains has identified more than 1,000 breaches of government guidance and has led to the closure of 471 local government domains.
Defra exceeds open dataset target
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has made more than 11,000 datasets open for anyone to access, use and share, exceeding a self-imposed target set last year.
Road-test: DVSA tech director on how the agency passed its digital MOT
The G-Cloud dream is dying for SMEs, says Memset director
Kate Craig-Wood, managing director of Memset, one of the original technical leads of the government’s G-Cloud framework, was a strong believer in the initiative, but now says her mind has changed.
GDS updates code of practice for government digital projects
The Government Digital Service plans to update its Technology Code of Practice to encourage a more adaptive and innovative approach to technology use in government.
Hancock backs open address register
Moves to create a new open register of property addresses has the ability to improve public services, according to Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock.
Open Data Institute voices Land Registry privatisation worries
Privatising the Land Registry risks "repeating the same mistakes" of previous outsourcing arrangements and could undermine the government's bid to make more data publicly accessible, according to the Open Data Institute.
Socitm conference: GLA outlines work on ‘private’ datastore for councils
The Greater London Authority is working on a secure, private version of its London Datastore that will allow boroughs to share sensitive information to help improve services.