Public Sector
Aylesbury Vale District Council uses AI to lower response times and costs
"AI will be crucial in the public sector," says digital strategy manager Maryvonne Hassal
One-tenth of world's pagers used by the NHS
NHS single-handedly keeping the pager industry going in the UK
UK government committed to working with UK SMBs
Public sector has spent £1.2 million with SMBs on digital services since 2012
Head of the GDS should have place on Civil Service Board, urges Institute of Government
Idea would give GDS head Kevin Cunnington full membership of board
Home Office, HMRC and DWP will share records for digital Brexit immigration system
Proposed new immigration system would be 'as digital, flexible and frictionless for individuals and employers as possible'
Most local authorities - including all in London - can't meet GDPR 'right to be forgotten' rules
Seventy per cent of local authorities flunk key GDPR requirement
British police need training in IT skills to handle surge in online crimes, claims Reform thinktank
Half of crimes involve 'digital technology' that police lack the skills to deal with, warns Reform
Hacker claims to have stolen data on 1.2 million NHS patients
But breached contractor says that it simply didn't have that much data
Email accounts of MSPs targeted in cyber attack on Scottish Parliament
Cyber attack on Scottish Parliament comes after MPs at Westminster were targeted in June by a similar brute force attack
Yet another NHS data breach - this time at St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust
Trainee doctors' personal details spilled via carelessly published spreadsheet
European Commmissioner Andrus Ansip proposes new European cyber security centre to certify security of technology products
But does the EU need yet another organisation to tackle IT security?
Civica sold again - this time to Swiss investment fund Partners Group in £1bn deal
Sanderson spin-out in fourth sale since 2004 as Partners Group scoops it up just a week after Civica bought SMB focused Carval
UK government plan to train 6,000 students in £20m cyber security programme
Four-year programme will include hundreds of hours of extra-curricular content, DCMS claims
NHS trusts bin 144 computers every day
Trusts have purchased more than 400,000 new PCs since 2013, at a cost of £260 million
Public sector IR35 changes driving contractors out, suggests survey
Pay more or public sector IT projects will suffer as a result, warn fleeing contractors
Austerity liberated the public sector, says former Durham County Council CIO Phil Jackman
The public sector has had to learn to be more efficient by working with limited resources, argues Jackman
Lords: Government does not understand seriousness of maintaining cross-border data flows after Brexit
75 per cent of all of the UK's cross-border data flows are to EU countries
HMRC has virtualised 60 per cent of its IT estate in 18 months
Virtualisation programme includes HRMC's massive SAP estate
Job centres to close in restructuring as more benefit claims and job seeking goes online
Move will cut DWP operational costs by £140m a year
Ben Gummer, the minister in charge of digital transformation, loses seat in general election
Stunner for Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer as Conservative Party manifesto author is ousted from Ipswich seat
Three quarters of businesses don't have a CDO - and most don't want one
But there are three times as many CDOs as there were in 2014
NHS patient data handed to Google by Royal Free Hospital on an 'inappropriate basis'
1.6 million NHS patient records shouldn't have been given to Google, according to data protection expert's leaked letter
Twenty per cent of NHS trusts affected by WannaCry ransomware
Barts NHS Trust believed to be the hardest hit NHS organisation
NHS hack: former GCHQ deputy director slams NHS reaction, and wider security industry
Brian Lord OBE, former Deputy Director GCHQ Cyber and Intelligence, says some trusts were forced to completely shut down due to poor secuerity hygiene, whilst the security industry is guilty of confusing customers with overcomplicated solutions
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