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Norway suspends ‘deeply intrusive’ contact-tracing app and deletes all existing data
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Hampshire County Council uses tech to tackle loneliness
Hampshire’s director of adults’ health and care Graham Allen talks to Gill Hitchcock about using IT to relieve loneliness among the county’s older population and where he finds inspirational digital ideas
DCMS fund backs West Sussex £50m fibre framework
County council becomes one of the first recipients of money from government scheme as it looks for provider to roll out connections to public sector-owned sites over the next two decades
VisitBritain seeks SEO supplier to deliver multilingual marketing
Tourism agency turns to search-engine marketing to boost efforts to market the UK to travellers
MoJ lays out £45m to retain Atos for up to 18 months while it finishes disaggregation work
Department claims that giving French SI a contract extension – without competitive process – is ‘only viable route’ to completing decoupling process
Take this tablet - GPs to offer apps on prescription
The first app library to be integrated in the workflow of GPs is shortly to launch. Rachel Pugh finds out more
GDS advises against naked domains
Government tells public sector entities to keep ‘www’ in their website URLs
Think tanks call on government to invest in blockchain
Two reports – from Reform and Lord Holmes – flag up the transformational potential of the distributed ledger technology
Government leads Industrial Strategy with pledge to make UK an AI world leader
White paper also lays out ambition to use technology to address issues of ageing and mobility
Universal Credit claimants to get online option to apply for advances in ‘spring 2018’
New digital service to be created following £1.5bn support package unveiled in the Budget
NHS’s £500m HSCN deal goes live with nine suppliers
Nonet of firms become first providers to be added to dynamic purchasing system for NHS’s new network
Lincolnshire seeks antisocial behaviour case-management platform for multi-agency use
Technology could also be deployed in other areas, such as domestic abuse and offender management
Leicester to move electronic documents from central storage to line-of-business systems
Council appoints provider to convert many documents to PDFs
Environment Agency revamps digital tool for waste exporters
Non-departmental body redesigns online platform
Driverless cars set for Budget boost
Chancellor set to propose changes to regulation to help the UK ‘take full advantage’ of emerging technology
‘You should be able to see your entire interaction with us’ – HMRC promises to put its mountain of data to customer-centric use
Organisation’s first-ever CDO looks to improve how the department processes and uses information
Stoke council picks SCC for £8m four-year contract
Council awards IT supply and support deal to Birmingham-headquartered IT services heavyweight
GDS offers £100k each in hunt for deputy director digital double act
Organisation looking for leaders to fill two senior roles
Another delay for MoJ’s troubled satellite tagging project
Technology will not be rolled out until next year, ministry admits
Whitehall needs cross-government robotics R&D approach – PAC
Government needs to make sure it does not lose its ‘edge as a research power’, MPs warn
Extra 1,000 tech visas and £20m govtech fund among PM’s measures to boost UK digital sector
Government details a range of programmes designed to promote the UK technology sector
DfT report: 700mph hyperloop pods still 20 years away
New technology is still a long way off, despite inherent skills base and potential for economic benefits, according to department report