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Department looks to bring in specialist team

Policy contains measures including drone-takedown unit and drive to promote design standards

Ministry to create commercial vehicle for accessing external expertise needed to support IT and digital programmes over the next five years

Artificial intelligence could help solve the public sector’s most complex problems, but how can policymakers navigate the legal, ethical and technical problems it presents? Sam Trendall talks to experts from the Alan Turing Institute about their programme to help government get to grips with AI

Department gets green light for third round of spending on software to complete deployment

Tax agency issues two contract notices for design and delivery specialists

Organisation is working through ‘some points of detail’ with four that are yet to sign

CDIO to return to Microsoft after two-year secondment

CDIO Davinson says the biggest challenge is ensuring sufficient investment in the ‘underpinning capabilities’

Precise scope of new £180k GCDIO role is unclear, as is relationship with head of GDS

Department to inform citizens that they may need to renew their passports earlier than expected if UK leaves EU without a deal

Department recruiting for three senior managers in new-look data directorate

Minister claims usage of machines will ‘naturally reduce’ over time

Agency selects Deloitte, PA Consulting, and Cognizant for apparent ‘bench’ arrangements to provide on-demand personnel

Cabinet Office details full brief of Simon Hart and other Cabinet Office ministers

With free movement now set to end abruptly on 31 October, the Home Office remains unable to answer key questions

Launch of initiative follows troubled engagement with Capita

Department recruiting for 19 roles in Digital Channels team

Government's new Innovation Strategy set out ambitious proposals to update processes, eliminate ageing kit, and embrace emerging technologies. Civil Service World's sister title PublicTechnology caught up with GDS innovation head Sue Bateman to find out more

Department to spend up to £300k developing service through Alpha phase

Tax agency issues procurement alert for ‘notebook application’ for evidence-gathering

Department seeks leaders in the areas of digital enablement and cyber risk

Recently launched National Leadership Centre to create online platform allowing leading officials to seek each other out

Department tasks digital transformation specialist with helping prepare the way for use of AWS and Azure

Organisation’s Brexit head takes top job

Reforming IT procurement has long been seen as a prosaic counterpoint to the digital transformation of citizen services. As the government prepares to replace the landmark G-Cloud frameworks and the online buying platform that supports them, Sam Trendall talks to Crown Commercial Service technology director Niall Quinn about why government’s purchasing needs would be better served by a GoCompare than an Amazon

Department seeks team to come in conduct review of technical and cultural obstacles

Government response to select committee report opposes MPs’ recommendation to issue physical documents

GDS innovation chief says that civil service business cases should encourage the development of ‘shared aims and objectives’

Number of staff taking courses has more than trebled in last three years

Department signs ‘digital charter’ with 15 companies

Agreement reached as Deloitte fined £4.2m over its auditing of the outsourcing giant during the scandal

Site due to go live next year

Department floats two-year contact to support delivery of tech and infrastructure

Problems affected ‘a very small number’ of the 350,000 businesses now signed up for digital platform, according to perm sec

Grade 6 post will have join team developing the National Data Strategy