The Digital Transformation of our Central and Local Governments, as well as Blue Light emergency services and other public services, continues apace with the redesigning and digitising of services to deliver world leading outcomes in the UK. Investment in GDS and elsewhere anticipates savings for government departments, as well as a fundamental redesign of public services and how users will interact with those services.
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January 2021
Commitment to supporting digital in Wales In her draft budget for 2021-22, Rebecca Evans announced that CDPS has been allocated funding of £4.9m for the next financial year. This is brilliant news for digital public services in Wales. There is now a really exciting opportunity […]
December 2020
“Without a doubt, Covid has accelerated appetite for digital government, but maintaining this momentum beyond the pandemic will be key. Part of this will be continued work into expanding ‘digital doors’ – making services accessible anytime, anywhere, and being as inclusive as possible. Due to […]
December 2020
The Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) digital arm, DWP Digital, are looking to hire hundreds of digital specialists in roles including infrastructure engineering, software engineering, DevOps and architecture. There’s never been a better time to join DWP Digital is in the middle of […]
December 2020
The promise of smart cities needs a strong network to back it up, writes Jamie Hayes, Mobile Network Operators Director, BT Wholesale. Smart cities are gaining traction, with worldwide spending on connected city initiatives predicted to reach $124 billion this year; an 18.9 per cent […]
November 2020
Twelve months ago Swindon Borough Council made the decision to start an ‘Emerging Technologies Team’. The purpose of forming the team was to focus on identifying opportunities that benefit multiple council services, test technology (both existing and new), measure the results and report back. It’s […]
October 2020
Many of us may now be adjusting to a more ‘digital’ existence as the pandemic rages on, normalising internet use for much more than we used to. By ‘we’, of course, I mean those of us on the right side of the digital divide – […]
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