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Government pledges to ‘set requirement to share data across departments’
Reform plan stresses ambition to improve use of tech and data
Cabinet Office spends £4.7m on Microsoft licensing deal
Contract signed under terms of public sector-wide MoU
Government facing legal challenge as DCMS admits use of automatically deleting messages
Campaign groups Foxglove and The Citizens to launch court case in two weeks if practice is not stopped
Scotland appoints leaders for AI strategy
Thirteen-strong team of tech experts brought together
‘We are forcing ourselves to differentiate on quality’ – government commercial chief on social-value buying rules
Gareth Rhys Williams says new guidance will mean that ‘we don’t give everyone eight out of ten’
SMEs have limited trust in government procurement
An annual survey from techUK shows that significant barriers remain for smaller firms wishing to supply government, according to Henry Rex
GDS signs £5m contract extensions with Verify partners to support new sign-ups until April 2022
Deals awarded to Post Office and Digidentity also include the transfer of data to government
Cabinet Office mulls future civil service homeworking arrangements
Unions counsel against attempts to instigate ‘big bang’ return to offices
Whitehall procurement pros told to look beyond lowest bid
New guidance urges buying teams to prioritise social value
Defence set for ‘rapid acceleration’ of digital, says MoD tech bigwig
Sector is currently ‘less mature’ than other areas of public services
Minister pledges ‘clear roadmap’ for scaling back 2G and 3G networks
Matt Warman says government will provide more details of future networks plan this summer
DWP to refer thousands of Universal Credit claimants for Google scholarship courses
Department teams up with search giant to offer training
Test and Trace signs £9m one-year AWS deal
Contract – which is not signed under the terms of the public sector-wide OGVA – covers provision of cloud services
Government broadband scheme seeks input from residents of UK’s most remote areas
DCMS consultation especially keen to hear from tourism businesses
Ministers need training to support Whitehall transformation, report finds
Think tank flags up need for extra skills
Scottish statistics body ordered to publish coronavirus care home death data
Regulator rules that information has been unlawfully withheld
Report identifies crucial role of satellite data in combatting climate change
Academic network publishes briefing on role of data in dealing with issues such as floods and wildfires
New IT system makes little impact on delays to Windrush compensation
Since tech infrastructure was updated a year ago, only a tenth of 1,000-plus applications have reached payment-approval stage
Minister pledges Central Digital and Data Office will target ‘elephant in the room’ legacy IT
Newly created entity will also focus on data infrastructure
'Being accessible isn't a badge of honour; it's the minimum we should be doing'
To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day, PublicTechnology caught up with Craig Abbott from the DWP to discuss how the department incorporates inclusion into its services, and why inaccessibility equates to discrimination