Public Sector

UK Police Urged To Take Crime Fighting To The Cloud

Digital technology should play an increasingly significant role to help British police tackle crime, says new report

8 years ago

BlackBerry Awarded CE+ Cyber Security Certification From UK Government

BlackBerry is the first UK mobile communications vendor to get the certification

8 years ago

Can The UK Government Really Benefit From Blockchain?

IN DEPTH: Beyond the hype, can the government exploit Blockchain in the same way as other industries such as banking…

8 years ago

Government Commits £2bn To Cutting-Edge Tech And Research Funding

Prime Minister Theresa May has outlined plans to pour an additional £2 billion per year in to Britain’s research and…

8 years ago

GDS Appoints Anna Shipman As Open Source Lead

The government legitimises its commitment to open source

8 years ago

UK Police’s 10 Year Digital Plan Focuses On Communications, Forensics

A 10-year strategy sees UK police forces taking wider advantage of digital tech, while training to handle its risks

8 years ago

Fujitsu: UK Government Is ‘More Realistic’ With Its IT Supplier Ambitions

Fujitsu Forum: Big firms working with startups allows government IT to be better delivered

8 years ago

Cyber-Politics Reached New Heights In 2016 Presidential Election

ANALYSIS: Never before have social media and even cyber-spying been used to such an enormous extent to shape voter sentiment

8 years ago

Government ‘Can Change’ Despite GDS Turmoil And Long-Term IT Contracts With Megavendors

UK Cloud CEO says there is evidence of a culture shift in Whitehall as smaller vendors wouldn't have got a…

8 years ago

Government ‘Could Save’ £2bn By 2020 If It Sorts Out Its Digital Strategy

Institute for Government slams Whitehall for digital transformation failures and lack of leadership

8 years ago

Home Office Extends Fujitsu Contract Another Two Years

The long-running contract will now extend to the spring of 2018, in spite of official Whitehall policy favouring smaller suppliers

8 years ago

Government Digital Service CTO To Step Down In New Year

Andy Beale is the latest high-profile figure to leave the embattled service

8 years ago

LGA Urges Cheap Broadband For Poorest People

Local Government Association calls for USO to include 'social tarrif' to aid connectivity for society's poorest

8 years ago

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt Safeguards NHS IT Spend

Spending on technology will be protected Jeremy Hunt has pledged, despite NHS financial woes

8 years ago

Why Has Universal Credit Been Such A Disaster For The Government?

Universal Credit: DWP battled with GDS, was overly ambitious with timelines and considered suing suppliers

8 years ago

Minecraft: Education Edition Launches 1 November

Schools will be able to access the building game for $5 per year, per user

8 years ago

MoJ Appoints Tom Read As Chief Digital And Information Officer

Government has appointed Tom Read as the chief digital and information officer at the Ministry of Justice and will oversee…

8 years ago

Emergency Services Network Plan ‘High Risk’, NAO Warns

The plan for a new emergency-services communications network relies on an approach as yet untested anywhere in the world, the…

8 years ago

Bruce Schneier: ‘Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet’

Security expert Bruce Schneier suspects state-sponsored DDoS attacks are being levied at major internet infrastructure providers to test cyber defences

8 years ago

Reading Receives 30km Of CityFibre’s High-Speed Network

Reading becomes the UK's latest Gigabit City with access to ultrafast broadband

8 years ago

GDS Aims To Boost Gov.UK Verify Adoption With Local Council Pilot

Government Digital Service will continue to push is government-as-a-platform plans beyond Whitehall but cloud challenges await

8 years ago

NHS Digital Bolsters Cyber Security Defences With Expanded CareCERT Service

Three new cyber security services will provide assessment and guidance on how NHS healthcare organisations can protect themselves

8 years ago

Microsoft Launches UK Cloud Data Centres

The Ministry of Defence and the NHS are amongst those signed up to use Microsoft's UK-based cloud infrastructure

8 years ago

Government Cracks Down On Illegal Phones In Prisons

Government gets powers to blacklist phones it thinks are being used by criminals behind bars

8 years ago

Brexit Dents UK Tech Industry Confidence

techUK members are less positive about the future of UK technology following the EU referendum than they were in March

8 years ago

North London Boroughs Choose Ed Garcez As CDIO

Ed Garcez, currently CIO for the London tri-borough, is to head a new combined ICT and digital service at three…

8 years ago

Startup Showcase: RotaGeek

RotaGeek CEO and co-founder Chris McCullough talks about RotaGeek's smart rota software and what government can do to help startups

8 years ago