Digital, Data & Technology

Shake-up comes just a month after the surprise appointment of the DWP's Kevin Cunnington (pictured) as director general of the Government Digital Service

National Audit Office finds 9,000 data breaches recorded by the 17 biggest government departments in last year – and says Cabinet Office must do more to help departments clamp down on loss and theft

“Security-minded folk who can think originally still don’t think working for government is cool," says anonymous Ministry of Justice recruiter

Ben Gummer says government has a "clear and co-orindated" vision for digital and says he already "commissioned it to do two very large pieces of work that it wasn’t doing before"

Treasury resistance hampered early planning, while over-stretched senior officials failed to spot warning signs that the project to overhaul benefits was failing, according to an in-depth report published by the Institute for Government

Successful candidate will have responsibility for leading teams of 500 data scientists, architects, statisticians and engineers

Revised Technology Code of Practice sets out criteria by which all big government technology projects will be judged

Interim director Jess McEvoy sets out next steps for flagship user verification service – as analysts downplay HMRC's move to develop its own ID system

How can Whitehall departments be persuaded to collaborate more effectively to achieve greater efficiency and savings? Mark Smulian reports on a round table discussion of the issue sponsored by CGI at Civil Service Live and led by the Ministry of Justice permanent secretary Richard Heaton

Daniel Thornton of the respected IfG think tank predicts greater role in business transformation work for government departments

Janet Hughes announces that she is to leave the flagship identity assurance scheme at the end of this week

“I’ve read many times about the end of GDS, but it has always come back stronger than before,” says new GDS director general

New Government Digital Service director general's DWP roles are to be shared across the department

Exclusive: Former Cabinet Office minister says nothing should be done to weaken the "central authority" of the Government Digital Service, as the United Nations' latest e-government index has Britain at the top for the first time

Digital Marketplace team manages public sector procurement and Warren Smith has been interim director for the past five months

Public sector organisations can now buy blockchain technologies through the government’s Digital Marketplace

Announcement comes just days after the Public Accounts Committee urged consistent leadership on winding down of HMRC's major Aspire contract

The big leadership changes in government digital seem like a triumph for those who believe a government organised along Victorian lines is still fit for fixing today’s problems, argues former senior civil servant Andrew Greenway

Key government-as-a-platform service moves a step closer

Former minister for the Cabinet Office also tells the Centre for Public Impact that he regrets not doing more to iron out civil servants' frustrations with technology

HMRC's customer service director general says she is "confident that what the Public Accounts Committee are suggesting won't happen"

26% of competitions overseen by Whitehall's jobs watchdog saw private sector candidates appointed in 2015-16, new data show

Department creates new unit at Marsham Street under stewardship of former chief technology officer Sarah Wilkinson

National Audit Office says HMRC must not make taxpayers "underwrite the risk of failure through service breakdowns" – as tax expert tells CSW the timetable for Making Tax Digital may need to be reset