Contact-tracing success rate drops
Data shows declines in the proportion of both confirmed cases and their contacts being reached by tracers
Norway suspends ‘deeply intrusive’ contact-tracing app and deletes all existing data
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Oliver Dowden given ministerial responsibility for GDS
Hertsmere MP’s brief as minister for implementation also includes IPA, CCS, and cybersecurity initiatives
Failure to renew security certificate fells Conservative website
Party makes IT gaffe on day of major reshuffle
Online GPs and pharmacies to be made subject to regulator ratings
Care Quality Commission given new powers to rate a range of independent healthcare providers
Government advises all businesses and individuals to take urgent action against microchip flaws
Concern still mounting about ‘most disturbing issue to hit the industry for decades’
DCMS looks to help local radio get out of the analogue age
Consultation launched in a bid to support 400 community and small commercial stations in moving from analogue to DAB signals
Government explores mobile emergency alert system for major incidents
Supplier sought to kick off project by engaging with the big four mobile network operators
Police and fire services in Yorkshire and north east launch £60m mobile framework
Group of 15 public bodies pool their requirements for devices and data
Jeff James of the National Archives on the importance of digital transformation - and real Christmas trees
The keeper of the UK's national archive unlocks its secrets
Ruth McKernan of Innovate UK on why the organisation has reached 'a natural transition point'
The leader of the national innovation organisation looks back on 10 years of work
Government appoints champion to promote ‘UK’s answer to Silicon Valley’
Local MP Iain Stewart handed post working to drive tech innovation in the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor
Kevin Cunnington on 2017's successes and difficulties - and why it just isn't Christmas without an outdoor swim
The GDS leader opens up on the organisation's victories, challenges, and priorities
GLA seeks provider to help analyse city-simulator exercises
Greater London Authority looks for supplier of system dynamics software
London mayor names and shames rogue landlords in new online database
Sadiq Khan also hits out at central government’s lack of action
DfT paper urges policy and programme commitments for digital railway signalling
Report acknowledges numerous ‘false starts’ in the past but sets out eight recommendations to ensure digital is placed at the heart of the railway of the future
The government should be a role model on IT reuse
Remanufactured computers could provide 95% of the performance of a new PC at a fraction of the cost to the environment; it is time for the civil service to set an examples, argues professor Mark Jolly of Cranfield University
UK Space Agency to offer public sector workers crash course in satellite applications
Space for Smarter Government Programme plans two one-day courses to introduce public servants to satellite technology
First care providers connect to HSCN
Devon Doctors and Earl Mountbatten Hospice connect to new network
Civil service faces pre-Brexit battle with private sector for 'rare' tech skills
Chief executive Manzoni lifts lid on centralised recruitment drive for digital specialists as Whitehall looks to bring in extra staff ahead of Brexit
CCS expands ‘technology expense management’ across public sector with £8m framework
Procurement body seeks two suppliers for three-year deal
IoT, gamification, and blockchain in focus for second cohort of GCHQ Cyber Accelerator
Nine companies to make the cut given the chance to present their technology to digital minister