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    Digital, Data & Technology

    The latest Digital, Data & Technology news from Civil Service World
    All civil servants to get AI training
    09 Jun Digital, Data & Technology

    All civil servants to get AI training

    For the latest One Big Thing project, officials will be trained on AI and tasked with assessing how they can use the tech to streamline their own work
    by Tevye Markson
    First app version of GOV.UK website launches
    01 Jul Digital, Data & Technology
    First app version of GOV.UK website launches
    Devereux review highlights ‘deep seated issues’ at ONS
    27 Jun Digital, Data & Technology
    Devereux review highlights ‘deep seated issues’ at ONS
    Treasury working with departments to build integrated finance system
    24 Jun Digital, Data & Technology
    Treasury working with departments to build integrated finance system
    Smart cities data standards released
    11 Nov 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Smart cities data standards released

    UK standards body BSI has published a guide to help standardise data and systems to help local government guide the creation of “smart cities”.


    MoJ contract with SSCL means redundancies and office closures, says PCS
    10 Nov 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    MoJ contract with SSCL means redundancies and office closures, says PCS

    Civil servants working in the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ’s) shared services centres face redundancies and office closures following a seven-year contract to outsource services to Shared Services Connected Limited (SSCL), says Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). 


    G-Cloud 6 tender proposes frequent refreshes
    07 Nov 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    G-Cloud 6 tender proposes frequent refreshes

    G-Cloud suppliers and services could be updated every three months, the government revealed yesterday in tender documents for the sixth iteration of the framework.


    New Digital Marketplace launched by Francis Maude
    06 Nov 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    New Digital Marketplace launched by Francis Maude

    The Marketplace, designed to make it easier for government to do business with IT providers of all sizes, was launched today by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude.


    More still to do on Open Data, say Mike Bracken and Nigel Shadbolt at ODI Summit
    06 Nov 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    More still to do on Open Data, say Mike Bracken and Nigel Shadbolt at ODI Summit

    Cabinet Office digital director Mike Bracken and Open Data Institute chairman Nigel Shadbolt said that there is still more to do if the government, and UK, want to share and access meaningful open data, at the ODI’s 2014 summit on open innovation on 4, November.


    Massive growth of public sector cloud predicted
    05 Nov 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Massive growth of public sector cloud predicted

    Public sector ICT cloud services will account for more than half of worldwide software, server and storage spending growth by 2018, according to new analysis.


    Public officials must be free to innovate, says CBI
    30 Oct 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Public officials must be free to innovate, says CBI

    Public officials should be free to try new approaches without fear of being “hauled in front of ministers, the Public Accounts Committee or being investigated by the National Audit Office”, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) says in a report published today.


    New G-Cloud 6 timetable revealed
    30 Oct 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    New G-Cloud 6 timetable revealed

    The government has announced that the G-Cloud 6 tender will be published next week.


    G-Cloud 6 tender postponed
    29 Oct 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    G-Cloud 6 tender postponed

    The government has delayed publication of the tender for the next iteration of the G-Cloud framework until next month.


    Home Office’s IMS improving allegations management but could do better
    27 Oct 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Home Office’s IMS improving allegations management but could do better

    The Home Office’s system of recording and assessing immigration and customs allegations is improving Home Office results but needs further work, said the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration’s report last week. 


    Labour mulls regional GDS structure
    23 Oct 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Labour mulls regional GDS structure

    Labour’s Digital Government Review could recommend a regional model for a local version of the Government Digital Service, shadow Cabinet Office Chi Onwurah has hinted.


    9 in 10 automatically transfer to Individual Electoral Registration (IER)
    22 Oct 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    9 in 10 automatically transfer to Individual Electoral Registration (IER)

    A Cabinet Office report released on Tuesday 21, October shows that nearly nine in ten people in England and Wales have been successfully added to the electoral register automatically through IER. 


    Departments ‘get nowhere’ without in-house capability, says digital chief
    07 Oct 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Departments ‘get nowhere’ without in-house capability, says digital chief

    Departments will “get absolutely nowhere” on reforming their services if they don’t have their own in-house digital capability, Paul Shetler, chief digital officer at the Ministry of Justice (furthest right), has warned.


    Manzoni made civil service CE as ‘Two Years On’ report maps out future reforms
    02 Oct 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Manzoni made civil service CE as ‘Two Years On’ report maps out future reforms

    John Manzoni, the chief executive of the Major Projects Authority, has been named as the new chief executive of the civil service.


    200 start civil service apprenticeship scheme this week
    18 Sep 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    200 start civil service apprenticeship scheme this week

    A total of 200 18-21-year-olds are this week starting the government’s civil service Fast Track apprenticeship scheme.


    New government deputy CTO starts this week
    05 Sep 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    New government deputy CTO starts this week

    Former Credit Suisse chief information officer Magnus Falk has this week started his new role as government deputy chief technology officer, one of 100 senior digital specialists brought into government over the past year.


    NAO: HMRC ‘should urgently invest’ in commercial skills
    23 Jul 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    NAO: HMRC ‘should urgently invest’ in commercial skills

    HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) “should urgently invest in its operational, technical and commercial skills,” a report by the National Audit Office has found.


    Voting is now open
    22 Jul 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Voting is now open

    In the first of a series of articles examining digital services, Tim Gibson explains online voter registration – a new IT system lying at the very heart of our democracy.


    care.data is back, with pilot in 500 GP practices
    18 Jul 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    care.data is back, with pilot in 500 GP practices

    The government’s controversial patient record-sharing programme care.data, paused in February after noisy opposition, will be restarted as a pilot this autumn, according to NHS England’s national director for patients and information Tim Kelsey.


    Official no longer at MoD after £70m IT contract error
    17 Jul 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Official no longer at MoD after £70m IT contract error

    An official responsible for an IT contracting error which cost the Ministry of Defence (MoD) £70m is no longer working for the department, its permanent secretary Jon Thompson told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on 16 June​.


    Government outsourcing spend up by 23%
    27 Jun 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Government outsourcing spend up by 23%

    Government spending on outsourcing contracts rose by 23% to £1.2bn between 2012 and 2013, bringing the two-year total to £2.3bn, while expenditure in most other sectors fell by between 1% and 20%, according to analysis of public sector transactions carried out by the Institute for Government (IfG).


    Policy Exchange calls for training
    12 Jun 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Policy Exchange calls for training

    The Civil Service Competency Framework should be updated to require all staff to have minimum skills in critical thinking, quantitative analysis and digital skills, according to think tank Policy Exchange.


    More training needed for cloud IT
    02 Jun 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    More training needed for cloud IT

    The majority  (88%) of civil servants believe their department needs more training in order to be able to take advantage of cloud computing, according to a survey carried out by Civil Service World and cloud services provider Eduserv.



     


    Get UK online, says think-tank
    29 May 2014 Digital, Data & Technology
    Get UK online, says think-tank

    Policy Exchange, a right-leaning think-tank, has called on the government to spend £875m on digitally educating the 6.2m people who aren’t currently using the internet, bringing Britain’s entire population online by 2020.


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