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• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Jeremy Wright appointed DCMS secretary of state in Cabinet reshuffle

  Attorney general Jeremy Wright becomes DCMS secretary as Matt Hancock moves to the Department for Health and Social Care where he takes over as health secretary

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Singapore to build speech recognition system to speed up emergency response

  Emergency responders in the city-state could be able to react more quickly in future with the help of the world’s first mixed-lingual speech recognition engine, to be developed at a new artificial intelligence speech lab

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Analysts question Australia government’s IBM deal

  Industry analysts and experts have called the wisdom of the A$1bn IBM IT deal into question, with one claiming that the federal government should have used a range of suppliers instead

• July 09, 2018 09 Jul'18

  Dutch government IT projects run €1bn over budget

  Dutch government IT projects are costing much more money and taking far longer than expected

• July 09, 2018 09 Jul'18

  Government needs to improve its outsourcing approach

  Parliamentary committee advises government to improve its outsourcing methods in the wake of the collapse of Carillion

• July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18

  European Parliament calls for suspension of Privacy Shield

  The Privacy Shield framework that replaced the Safe Harbour agreement for personal data transfers between the EU and the US is under increased pressure due to alleged non-compliance by US firms

• July 05, 2018 05 Jul'18

  Construction sector gets £420m investment for tech and innovation

  Government has partnered with industry to deliver a Construction Sector Deal, which includes a joint £420m investment for “bytes and mortar smart construction”

• July 05, 2018 05 Jul'18

  UK joins forces with France on artificial intelligence and data

  The UK and France will share expertise on AI and research, work together to improve digital services and collaborate to develop tech talent

• July 05, 2018 05 Jul'18

  Local Digital Declaration sets out how to transform local public services

  The declaration, which sets out five “principles of internet-age local public services”, is backed by £7.5m in government funding to help councils transform services

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Annual IPA report shows state of major government IT projects

  None of the 29 government IT projects are given the lowest “red” ranking, but seven projects are rated as “amber/red”, including the Home Office digital borders programme and the NHS e-referral service, meaning successful delivery is in doubt

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Slow broadband fuels a post-Brexit storm for rural communities

  Lack of access to reliable broadband and mobile networks threatens rural livelihoods after Brexit, according to a Local Government Association report

• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Israel accuses Hamas of using spy apps to target soldiers

  Israel has accused Hamas of using apps to hijack soldiers’ phones to spy on them, and UK defence secretary demonstrates how effective that could be

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  Exiting EU committee cattle-prods government on 'data adequacy'

  House of Commons Select Committee for Exiting the European Union urges the government to start the process to secure a “Data Adequacy Decision” from the EU pronto

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  NHS data breach caused details of 150,000 patients to be shared

  The NHS has inadvertently shared the confidential data of 150,000 patients over a three-year period due to a coding error in one of the most common GP IT systems

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  Government welcomes Lords AI report, vaunts industrial strategy

  The government has published its official, supportive response to the House of Lords select committee report on artificial intelligence, published earlier this year