Digital, Data & Technology

Treasury guidance encourages departments to offer “unreasonable certainty in timelines, costs and benefits”, IfG report finds

DCMS response to select committee report reveals move to tackle online manipulation by creating agreed definitions of ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ 

National Cyber Security Centre annual report reveals it has dealt with 1,100 cyber attacks in its first two years

Penelope Endersby becomes agency’s first female boss seven months after Rob Varley quits

Tom Smith, managing director of the ONS Data Science Campus, tells CSW's sister title PublicTechnology how and why he wants to 'move the needle' for the use of data across the public sector

Five of the service’s seven existing commercial partners will assume responsibility for the product

Consultation analysis underscores weight of organised opposition to Cameron-era proposals ditched by May regime

PAC chair Meg Hillier says department has “very serious questions” to answer over delayed rollout of emergency communications system

New digital services will help Defra protect against environmental hazards and improve communication, it said

But think tank warns the needs of staff rather than new technology should drive change

Mayank Prakash, who was named CIO of the year in 2016, set to return to the private sector

The emergency services’ outgoing Airwave network will stay in place for at least three years