Public sector

GDS recruiting for people to lead new Global Digital Marketplace This article is sponsored by:

The Government Digital Service (GDS) announced plans early last year to expand the Digital Marketplace, making it a platform for governments around the world to use.

AI will change or eliminate 130,000 federal jobs over the next two decades This article is sponsored by:

AI will play a significant role in helping government agencies to more efficiently provide services, but it will reshape the workforce in ways that are dramatic and largely unforeseen, according to Partnership for Public Service.

National Audit Office - ‘Verify is an example of the failings often seen in major government programmes’ This article is sponsored by:

The National Audit Office’s verdict of the identity verification service, Verify, is a blow to the Government Digital Service, which has tried to avoid failings of the past.

Government warns that less than half FTSE 350 boards have dedicated cyber security budget This article is sponsored by:

The government’s annual Cyber Governance Health Check highlights that whilst boards have a cyber security strategy, less than half are dedicating money to support it.

Ministry of Defence and Capita’s management of contracts slammed in damning report This article is sponsored by:

The Ministry of Defence - specifically, the Army - has to share blame with Capita regarding mishandling of two contracts that are likely to end up wasting taxpayers money.

BEIS CDIO Karl Hoods on insourcing, innovating with AI and working with GDS This article is sponsored by:

The department’s new digital leader is changing BEIS’s operating model to better support policy teams

BEIS Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Smart cities - Policy and best practice from the front line This article is sponsored by:

Chris Middleton presents the second of two reports from the Westminster eForum on smart cities.

Barriers to sharing and linking information means less effective care for children and parents This article is sponsored by:

Disparate systems and a fear about what information can be shared, which has been heightened by the introduction of GDPR, means care for children in their first three years is not as good as it could be.

First fax machines, now pagers - the Health Secretary continues to draw his red lines for NHS tech This article is sponsored by:

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has this weekend announced that all NHS Trusts will be required to phase out pagers by the end of 2021.

Cabinet Office publishes ‘Outsourcing Playbook’ - 11 new policies to help government get outsourcing right This article is sponsored by:

Whitehall has a chequered past when it comes to the success of outsourcing contracts. The recent fall of Carillion has forced the government to focus its outsourcing efforts.

Introducing NHSX - the new digital service for the National Health Service This article is sponsored by:

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that new organisation will bring together tech leadership that will be responsible for changing technology transformation across the NHS.

Ministry of Defence opens up its ideas platform to encourage innovation and save £150m in the process This article is sponsored by:

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been running an ideas platform for decades, but it is now shifting to an SaaS model and breaking out of silos.

“The age of inadequate self regulation must come to an end” - MPs publish Facebook Fake News report This article is sponsored by:

MPs on the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee have said that big tech companies like Facebook are failing in their duty of care.