Digital, Data & Technology

Loughborough centre will join new Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham bases from next year

Watchdog says rapid timescale lacked “economic assessment of its implications”, ramping programme’s complexity and cost

Senior manager will develop data sharing tools and practices

Role of government’s central digital team is evolving but central oversight is still required on policies such as IT disaggregation, minister tells PublicTechnology

Cabinet Office admits its initial bid to fill “probably the biggest and most important security job in the UK today” was "unsuccessful"

Rob Thompson takes position as department’s technology leader after four years at DWP

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