The Government Digital Service (GDS) estimates it will save £1.8bn per year moving offline services to digital channels, according to a copy of its draft Digital Strategy seen by Computer Weekly. The focus of the strategy is on ...
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The government has confirmed plans to save billions of pounds per year by digitising public services transactions in its C. In its Digital Strategy and Digital Efficiency report, the Cabinet Office estimates it could save £1.7bn by ...
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HMRC is the first major government department to use the G-Cloud to procure centralised data storage,in a deal with Skyscape. Phil Pavitt,CIO of HMRC(pictured),said:"This change will save over 1m pounds a year in running costs and will ...
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The government's main information services website Directgov is to be replaced by the new GOV.UK site from 17 October. The move to GOV.UK,which aims to provide all government websites under a single domain,is expected to create ...
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Big data and intelligence-driven security are to be the focus of the RSA Conference Europe 2012 in London next month. Three of the keynote sessions are related to these topics and they are represented in just about every time slot of the ...
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The government reduced its IT spend by £249m in 2011/12, with savings of £104m coming from its move to digital services and contract renegotiations, and £145m from its moratorium on contracts above £5m. The ...
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The Cabinet Office claims that a "ruthless approach" to "eradicating wasteful spending" across central government has helped generate £104m in savings in IT spending out of more than £5.5bn in total efficiency savings it claims ...
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) has created an online tool which lists 1,000 transactional government services. The development is likely to be a key step toward digital public services as the data it provides will help Whitehall ...
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The government recently published its white paper on open data,with the newly-created Open Data User Group having met to discuss the next phase.But despite these moves,campaigners are worried that plans to create a£16bn stimulus to ...
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Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service, talked to Computer Weekly about what UK public services could learn from Estonia's open source model and why a dose of its IT leaders' humility wouldn't go amiss in ...
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Digital delivery and a move to mutualised services will be essential for the civil service to weather cuts that will see it shrink to its lowest size since the Second World War,according to Whitehall's Civil Service Reform Plan(CSRP). The ...