Developers on demand: Home Office signs £5m IBM deal for short-notice access to digital skills
Department signs bench agreement with tech giant
New cyber laws aim to ‘put a firewall around’ citizens’ smart devices
Firms that breach guidelines could face multimillion-pound fines
NHS Covid app: local features and boosting uptake among ‘under-represented communities’ cited as key to autumn plan
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DfE programme evaluating long-term outlook for online learning
Minister says pandemic has provided ‘valuable intelligence’ on the role technology can play
DHSC buys 16,000 iPhones for Test and Trace scheme
Department spends £4m on deal with Jigsaw24
EXCL: Digital minister says government will pass law to make smart devices safer ‘as soon as we can’
Matt Warman tells PublicTechnology event that government wants products and services to be secure ‘from the ground up’ – reducing burden on consumers and businesses
‘When coronavirus struck, we accelerated, because citizens were struggling’ – how DWP revamped the Budgeting Loans service
The pandemic illustrated the importance of work to improve a service offering support for society’s most vulnerable, product owner Sharron Wise tells PublicTechnology
Report calls for ‘more power’ in Whitehall to be centralised
UK’s top two civil servants should be handed more responsibility as part of drive to make Cabinet Office more effective, says IfG
DfE laptops for home-schooling found to contain malware
Government says a ‘small number’ of machines are affected by what users say is a worm that contacts Russian servers
HMRC appoints new customer service chief
After a difficult year for key performance metrics, Myrtle Lloyd takes on DG-level post
No digital postal vote application service before May elections
Government considering launching online tool – but not in time for upcoming polls
Remote juries rolled out to more courts
Venues in Scotland will be able to conduct trials with juries based in cinemas or other offsite locations
Gloucestershire offers £80k for IT chief
County council seeks leader to work with suppliers, staff and elected members
Email security incidents happen every 12 hours – it’s time to close the gap in Microsoft 365
The remote-first world has seen email being relied on more than ever as a core communication mechanism - but with 93% of IT leaders acknowledging a risk to sensitive data, what steps should be taken to secure data? Egress explores
Ageing tech has added £50m to HMRC costs during pandemic, report finds
Legacy IT has accounted for 80% of additional expense, according to PAC
DWP spends £5m to manage applications
Department invests in contract to deliver ‘full-stack visibility’
NHS trusts to implement £7.5m digital shift-planning tech
Government funds rollout across 38 trusts
Review of departmental delivery signals Whitehall reform drive still in effect
Exercise led by Michael Barber suggests civil service shape-up remains a target for the PM
Are You Ready for the Future of Cyber Security?
2020 was a cyber security wake up call for many organisations. Attempting to provide secure remote access and device flexibility quickly exposed the flaws in legacy systems and processes. As we enter 2021, Six Degrees asks: are you ready for the future of cyber security?
Will local government transformation be set back by coronavirus?
Having long suffered from a scarcity of funding, councils could be forgiven for deprioritising investments in new tech. But public and private and sector leaders tell PublicTechnology that digital has never been more important.
Microsoft ‘a few weeks away’ from fixing issue affecting Scottish digital learning platform
Education Scotland stresses there is a ‘manual workaround’
DWP to launch online channel for Personal Independence Payment claims
Small-scale testing began in October
NHS Digital spends £8m on four deals to support ‘Covid-19 rapid response’
Quartet of contracts awarded last month
Cummings legacy little more than ‘rearranging some furniture’
Former head of NCSC Ciaran Martin believes that ‘war on Whitehall’ has ended – to minimal discernible effect