Digital, Data & Technology

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