MoD redesigns online Armed Forces memorial
Service has been redeveloped to improve ease of use and better adhere to GDS standards
DWP signs £100k deal to ensure accessibility of Universal Credit digital services
Consultancy brought in on two-year contract to deliver audits and recommend improvements
Government vetting processes hampered by ‘old and unstable’ technology
NAO report finds ageing IT is a major contributor to the performance issues at UKSV
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Courts workers to strike again over IT system problems
Industrial action to include one-day nationwide walkout and series of regional strikes
NHS Digital cites transformation ‘turning point’ after £750m investment in FY22
Annual report of tech agency – which will shortly be wholly merged into NHS England – details progress in many areas
GOV.UK to examine Google and Microsoft tools in bid to ‘significantly improve’ search
GDS prepares for £900,000 project to replace existing ElasticSearch platform with ‘fully managed’ option
Insolvency Service to digitise 300,000 creditor reports per year
Project will allow those owed money by fallen firms to send and receive documentation digitally
GDS adds millions to supplier contracts as One Login project enters ‘critical time’
Value of trio of technical and support deals is raised
NHS offers bionic arms to all amputees
Technology has previously only been available to those injured in military service
Leaders want public sector to become ‘digital to the core’ to cope with challenges
Reports identify importance of technology skills to help meet service demand in spite of financial pressures
GDS Academy to close
Initiative that provided digital skills training to several thousand officials each year is shutting down this month
Half of social-care providers yet to adopt digital records
Minister provides progress update on plan to increase use of technology systems
Passport Office seeks £7.5m IT partner for final stages of troubled transformation scheme
Programme is getting closer to completion – but years behind schedule and at nearly treble originally slated cost
Patchy data means government ‘does not know what skills gaps it has and where’
Civil service requires better information to help address need for technical expertise
ICO issues warning over ‘emotion analysis technologies’
Regulator claims new systems come with inherent risk of ‘systemic bias, inaccuracy and even discrimination’
DWP relaunches £200k bid to attract CDIO
Role was previously open for applications in August
‘DCMS can speak with a single, expert voice on digital policy within government’
Perm sec Healey claims that department’s emergence as the go-to place for tech policy is ‘an incredible asset to the UK’
DVLA recruiting four senior techies to tackle legacy and help create ‘digital workplace’
Government agency opens hiring process for quartet of IT leadership posts
DWP looks to embed machine-readable laws into digital ‘Universal Credit navigator’
Department works with government lawyers and specialist tech firm to pursue ‘rules as code’ project
Integration of NHS Digital brought forward to January
Government claims merger will improve data sharing across health service
Digital and robotics key to HMRC cuts, CEO says
Demand for headcount reductions and other savings can be achieved via use of tech in services and operations, Jim Harra tells MPs
For the US government, good design is a civic duty
In light of plans to overhaul USA.gov, YuJune Park of Parsons School of Design explains the revamp must put citizens first
Chris Philp takes ministerial reins of GDS and CDDO
Digital agencies have yet another new politician in charge after Croydon South MP is moved on from the Treasury
Foreign Office signs £7.5m two-year deal to support cyber transformation
Department signs deal with defence contractor