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Digital transformation will play a key role in the future of local government. David Bemrose, Head of Account Strategy for Local Government at Crown Commercial Service (CCS), introduces a new digital transformation guide
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Three things UK cities can do right now to become smarter
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Civil service seeks ‘leaders of the future’ with four-year scheme for aspiring digital professionals
The DDaT Fast Stream scheme will involve placements in up to six government departments
Wanted: £95k leader for mysterious pan-government IT service ‘of national importance’
Role within Department for International Development will require highest-level security clearance and entails regular access to Top Secret information
SMEs still being shut out as half of Whitehall spend goes on mega-deals, report claims
Taxpayers’ Alliance claims that the UK’s procurement spending on €100m-plus contracts far exceeds that of the rest of the EU combined
‘I cannot buy a promise’ – strategy chief of UK’s fastest-growing city on the challenges facing smart cities
After concluding a three-year programme, Milton Keynes is working out how best to proceed with smart-city technology
DVLA chief Oliver Morley on the agency’s vision for a digital future
The CEO of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency talks to our sister site Civil Service World about the move towards digital services and the potential impact of pay restraint
Home Office puts up £75k salaries for new cloud and end-user-computing leaders
Two senior technology posts on offer at central government department
Cabinet Office launches £4m project to drive use of software robots across civil service
Supplier Capgemini to train civil servants and help departments develop RPA applications
GDS: ‘We need a step change in public procurement’
Government Digital Service takes part in OECD initiative to create strategic plan to reform procurement to make it more open and flexible
Home Office plots £5m project to equip police with facial-recognition software
Department issues contract notice for biometric software
The National Archives commits to apprenticeships as part of plan to ramp up digital headcount
Organisation is only public body working with Ada National College for Digital Skills as it plans to increase number of digital employees by 50%
GOV.UK Notify begins local government rollout
Some 20 authorities to test service over next few months
Avon and Somerset Police to roll out Windows 10 in £2.6m licensing deal
Force signs contract with IT reseller SBL
Leeds to build hybrid-cloud shared services platform
City seeks IT partner to build platform for use across the public sector – and possibly the third sector too
BBC trials artificial-intelligence and voice-recognition technology for iPlayer
Broadcaster envisions future where users converse with their television
To make the most of new technology, the NHS needs a cultural shift
The health service needs to make sure its people are geared up for the data-rich future, according to Afshin Attari of Exponential-e
Trio of top universities recruited to deliver NHS Digital Academy
Imperial College London to work with Harvard and Edinburgh University to deliver training to 300 clinical and management staff each year
BT offers to invest £600m to make government's broadband dream a reality
Government now has the option of leaning on either regulation or private sector investment to fulfil pledge on nationwide high-speed connectivity
Ordnance Survey to launch first augmented reality offering
New addition to mobile app will be shown to members of the public for the first time at next weekend's Countryfile Live show
Salford's Now Healthcare claims to be first online GP service to get top marks from CQC
Three-year-old company rated as having all five necessary qualities, following inspection by regulatory body the Care Quality Commission
Norfolk County Council to replace disparate procurement platforms with single £1.5m system
Council seeks a new platform that can work with – but ultimately help replace – its Oracle enterprise resource planning system