With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who would turn on their town’s Christmas lights.

With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who would turn on their town’s Christmas lights. Cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill kicks off our Whitehall roundup

PA Consulting shows how vulnerable people in the London Borough of Barnet are living more independent lives using technology

With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who would turn on their town’s Christmas lights.

Chief scientific advisers provide vital expertise to help departments make informed policy decisions – not least during national emergencies. But to be effective, they must also be experts in the workings of Whitehall. Beckie Smith spoke to CSAs past and present to discover how they combine these distinctive skills.

The government chief scientific adviser reflects on his career to date and strengthening how science and policy work together in the civil service

The Government Property Agency (GPA) invites individuals, teams and organisations across the Civil Service to submit nominations for awards in five categories

Technology is transforming policing. PA Consulting shows how police forces around the UK are switching to a new IT platform they can use in almost every part of a case

IBM discusses how blockchain can enable the digital reinvention of Government

IBM argues that departments should be clear about why certain decisions are made, especially when it comes to AI

There’s a vast network that keeps our internet running, and it lives under the ocean

PA Consulting combined its knowledge of policing, mobile technology, commercial issues and the public sector’s five case model for business cases to help Essex and Kent police

When the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency scooped the 2018 Civil Service Digital Award for its hugely successful MOT reminder service, it proved just how powerful positive persuasion can be. Alex Fiddes, programme delivery executive, explains how the programme is making Britain's roads safer.

The government’s recent moves to get the expansion of airport capacity off the ground are the latest twist in one of the UK’s longest running policy sagas. Richard Johnstone considers whether this new plan will take flight

BT thinks The Internet of Things is about to undergo a revolution. Over the past two decades, we've seen IoT tech evolve from a possibility, to a novelty, to an established tool that plays a vital role in industry, infrastructure and logistics

CSW brings together memories and tributes from those who knew Lord Heywood over his 35 years as a civil servant

Jess Bowie and Suzannah Brecknell explore some of the many ways Lord Heywood touched and inspired those he worked with

Vodafone argues that the way we work is changing. Technology needs to keep up

John Pullinger sits down with Mark Smulian to discuss sharing UK expertise globally, fake news and how data abundance changes policymaking

As part of our series profiling up-and-coming leaders in the civil service, Marsha Osivwemu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’s natural environment portfolio head, tells Beckie Smith how she defied her own expectations to climb the ranks of central government and how she’s pulling up others behind her

IBM argues that public sector bodies around the world are already reaping the rewards of investing in AI technology

PA Consulting's Paul Woodgates on how universities should adapt to a changing environment

Quantum computers will soon make some of our strongest encryption useless. And that's where quantum cryptography comes in

The chancellor’s Budget officially fired the starting gun on the 2019 Spending Review, but questions remain about how the Treasury will run the negotiations while also grappling with Brexit. Beckie Smith and Richard Johnstone preview what lies ahead