The Government Digital Service (GDS) is rolling out open source content management system Drupal, according to one of its suppliers. GDS is also looking at integrating a Drupal function that will allow it to spin out new government sites ...
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Government may appoint 200 digital managers to work across Whitehall departments,as part of its transition to transactional digital services,Computer Weekly has learned. According to a presentation by Government Digital ...
Liam Maxwell, formerly the deputy government CIO, has been appointed as the first Whitehall chief technology officer (CTO), in the latest stage of a major shake-up of the government IT leadership organisation. As revealed last week by ...
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Why the Product Owner holds the key to public sector and government Agile development success - and how to find or be a great one. Agile development experts Unboxed Consulting have launched a new White Paper on the effective use of Agile ...
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Sally Howes, IT director at the National Audit Office, has extensive experience in the IT sector and was brought in to boost the government watchdog's technical skills. Under her guidance the NAO is expanding its role beyond project ...
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The government could save up to £33bn a year by applying big data analytics to departmental information, claims a new report from think tank the Policy Exchange. The Policy Exchange estimated up to £22bn could be found by ...
The G-Cloud should be held up as a model for how to do frameworks in government, deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell has said. The comments follow moves by the Cabinet Office to freeze all new procurement frameworks, as part of its review ...
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The G-Cloud looks set to become the future model for the way government buys its IT – with a new framework in the pipeline that will include secure email services for the NHS – and calls for it to become a blueprint for all new ...
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) has launched its Gov.uk website, intended to become a single domain for online public services to replace hundreds of departmental sites. The move to Gov.uk is expected to create significant cost ...
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The government has named the first public services to go digital, following the publication of 18 individual departmental digital strategies outlining moves to digital by default public services. The strategies detail how departments will ...
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Former deputy chief information officer(CIO)Liam Maxwell has been appointed as the government's first ever chief technology officer(CTO)in a Whitehall IT shake-up. Maxwell will now report to Mike Bracken,executive director of the ...
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Seven firms have been chosen to provide the Identity Assurance service required for benefit applicants to the new Universal Credit welfare scheme. The Post Office, Cassidian, Digidentity, Experian, Ingeus, Mydex, and Verizon will deliver ...
Government IT reformers have criticised the Cabinet Office's plans to give chief procurement officer Bill Crothers a more prominent position within the IT leadership team. Sources told Computer Weekly they were concerned the move could ...
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The government's IT leadership team is to undergo a major organisational reshuffle,according to a notice from Cabinet Office chief operating officer Stephen Kelly seen by Computer Weekly. Under the shake-up Andy Nelson will remain ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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