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Supplier sought to kick off project by engaging with the big four mobile network operators

Candidate will also be tasked with leading review of how legislation could be modernised following EU withdrawal

PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall examined the challenges and rewards of driving the government's digital transformation

Current academy leader Sweeney reveals impending move to Australia, as skills and training organisation also lifts lid on plans to collaborate more with other governments

Partially government-owned Behavioural Insights Team publishes results of trial schemes and urges Whitehall to take notice

FCO teams up with DFID and British Council to tender for four-year framework to provide networking to 550 sites in the UK and throughout the world

With less than six months until new data-protection law is introduced, PublicTechnology hears from regulators and data professionals across central and local government about what they see as the major challenges facing them between now and 25 May

Commons committee concludes DoH and NHS England did not do enough to determine whether patients were harmed by correspondence backlog

Crown Commercial Service gathering information to ensure typically busy period is negotiated smoothly

Two reports – from Reform and Lord Holmes – flag up the transformational potential of the distributed ledger technology

After calling time on a long civil-service career earlier this year, the former Directgov and GDS leader discusses how digital government has evolved during the 20 years he spent as one of its leading advocates

Document from Government Commercial Function offers advice on how to best to decouple from monolithic contracts

Government issues edict instructing public bodies to move email and websites to gov.uk and other new domains

Post will also involve creation of analytics tools and platforms for minimising fraud

A government-commissioned study makes 18 recommendations, including asking GDS to help create a scheme to boost public sector use of artificial intelligence

Digital director John Sheridan tells Civil Service World's sister publication PublicTechnology about changes not only to how the UK’s official archive operates, but to the very nature of archiving

Cabinet Office accounts reveal big hike in spending on interim workers to ensure key programmes are delivered

Warren Smith also opens up on how the launch of the Crown Marketplace will reshape central government procurement

The One Team Government movement has big ambitions to reform how Whitehall works by getting different professions and departments to work better together. PublicTechnology meets its co-founder Kit Collingwood-Richardson to find out more

Wireless internet service passes beta assessment and is now available in more than 100 locations across the UK

Study from techUK and Dods shows key obstacles becoming more – not less – entrenched

Cabinet Office perm sec says civil service must work more collaboratively to make digital transformation a reality

Leaked Home Office paper unveils plans to take immigration status check service entirely online

Fifth benchmarking exercise finds three core areas for improvement

Contract, which also covers wider public sector, allots £5m to assess telecoms and mobile spend

The digital, data and technology Fast Stream scheme will involve placements in up to six government departments

Role within Department for International Development will entail creation and management of new service for use across more than 20 departments

Supplier Capgemini to train civil servants and help departments develop robotic process automation using software in £4m project

Department recruiting for senior digital professional to oversee development and design teams

Vastly experienced civil servant replaces Alex Holmes as COO of Whitehall digital body

Newly-launched unit – which grew out of DWP predecessor – is offering 10 courses in four cities

While the civil service has shrunk dramatically, its volume and proportion of IT and digital professionals have gone up and up, ONS data reveals

Warning as Brexit pressures massively increase scale and complexity of  £157m plan to replace "ageing technology"