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IT for government and public sector

• Why a shared channel experience will meet user needs at DWP Digital

  The Department for Work and Pensions outlines the approach it is taking to developing user-focused digital services  Continue Reading

• Why UK needs independent oversight body for contact-tracing app

  The public needs and deserves clarity, and not just assurances, over the UK’s Covid-19 contact-tracing app  Continue Reading

• London Data Commission: Sharing data to help support London’s response to Covid-19

  London First’s director of connectivity and competitiveness, David Lutton, talks about establishing the London Data Commission, and its contribution to coping with the coronavirus crisis  Continue Reading

• Coronavirus: Why the public sector must pursue IT transformation

  It is clear that the current coronavirus crisis has had a major impact on digital transformation efforts in the public sector  Continue Reading

• Smart thinking for modernised IT in the public sector

  Far from lagging behind the private sector, many public sector organisations are embracing modern IT practices such as DevOps and agile methodologies  Continue Reading

• IT transformation steps pave the path to new ways to work

  The CEO of Difrent discusses how her roles in local and central government have played a role in public sector IT transformation  Continue Reading

• Digital skills for the future, today

  The education sector’s response to the coronavirus crisis demonstrates how digital systems and skills will be essential to the future of learning  Continue Reading

• Why you should think before you Zoom

  Feel free to use Zoom during the coronavirus lockdown, but think before you discuss anything confidential  Continue Reading

• Technology has brought us together, but can it lead us out of lockdown?

  The government needs to tell us more about the NHSX contact tracing app - choices made now around privacy and transparency will affect all our lives as we aim to ease lockdown, says the shadow digital minister  Continue Reading

• Connect and protect: How the tech sector is responding to the coronavirus crisis

  Tech sector trade body TechUK is coordinating the industry's activity to help the UK government tackle the Covid-19 outbreak  Continue Reading

• CCRC findings on subpostmaster prosecutions reveal incompetence of successive governments

  Former subpostmaster who took on the Post Office in a multimillion-pound legal battle speaks out.  Continue Reading

• Coronavirus and privacy – finding the middle ground

  Data collection has a role to play in fighting the deadly Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, but governments need to be accountable for how it is used  Continue Reading

• Gigabit broadband for new homes is essential to UK’s telecoms ambitions

  Digital minister outlines plans to develop UK’s telecoms infrastructure to make it fit for the future  Continue Reading

• What is the Post Office board doing to right the Horizon wrongs?

  Business lawyer Nick Gould compares the treatment of subpostmasters by the Post Office in the Horizon IT scandal with the huge HBOS fraud that saw £1bn stolen from small businesses  Continue Reading

• What is ARPA and what should a UK version look like?

  The Prime Minister wants the UK to be a hotbed of science and research, and his advisor Dominic Cummings admires the US ARPA organisation – but what would a UK version need to be successful?  Continue Reading