‘Very troubling choice’ – NHS picks Palantir for £480m data deal
WEBNov 22, 2023 · This value is dwarfed by the £360m price tag attached to the five-year deal to create and maintain the FDP. If the contract is extended by two further years to its full potential length, spending is projected to rise as high as £480m. “Palantir is a very troubling choice of service provider for the NHS given the human rights controversies ...
How automation and data-sharing enabled DWP to transform the …
WEBDec 3, 2020 · After a digital and data revamp, more than half of claims are entirely self-service, product owner Vicky Coatesworth tells PublicTechnology Credit: Adobe Stock Even by government standards, the Get your State Pension service run by the Department for Work and Pensions is a vast and important one.
Feryal Clark named minister for AI and digital government
WEBJul 19, 2024 · The government has announced Feryal Clark as the UK’s new minister for AI and digital government – a role in which she will take on oversight of Whitehall’s core technology units. Her position is that of a parliamentary undersecretary of state in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Following a …
Support charity reports big spike in Scottish Digital exclusion
WEBAug 14, 2024 · Citizens Advice Scotland reveals that it helps more than 3,000 with basic digital skills, and the charity claims exclusion can isolate people from loved ones and prevent access to services. The number of people in Scotland who are digitally excluded has risen by almost 60% since 2022, new data has …
National Archives seeks to digitise millions of ‘Dad’s Army’ files
WEBMar 12, 2024 · The National Archives is planning to digitise and publish online the service records of millions of men who served during the second world war in the citizen militia popularly known as ‘Dad’s Army’. Created in 1940, the Home Guard (pictured above) was a domestic voluntary force comprised of millions of men who were ineligible for front ...
GDS head: ‘Our top priority for 2024 is working with HMRC to …
WEBJan 2, 2024 · Tell us three words that sum up your 2023… Ambitious future thinking. …And why you chose those words Alongside running our existing services and delivering our digital programmes, we have taken some time this year to start to fundamentally rethink how government services should work in the age of smartphone near-ubiquity, AI and changing societal expectations.
How can local government get it right on shared services?
WEBJun 5, 2020 · 626. Number of local government shared services partnerships across England in 2018/19, according to the LGA. £1.34bn. Cumulative savings delivered by these partnerships – including £200m in FY19 alone. Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, Solihull, Worcestershire. Local authorities that share the Adoption Central England service.
Leicester still unclear on whether citizen personal data was …
WEBMar 21, 2024 · The city council, which discovered security issue two weeks ago, has reconnected most staff and is working to get services back online as criminal investigations into the matter are ongoing After suffering a “cyber incident” two weeks ago, Leicester City Council is still unable to determine w
UPDATED: GDS and CDDO to move from Cabinet Office to DSIT
WEBJul 9, 2024 · The GOV.UK sites of both CDDO and GDS continue to list each unit as being part of the Cabinet Office. In the meantime, DSIT said that the move would enabled government to “unite efforts in the digital transformation of public services under one department”. The department’s new secretary of state, Peter Kyle, added: “Britain will not ...
DWP embarks on six-year modernisation scheme to ‘transform …
WEBNov 17, 2023 · According to procurement documents, the two-month engagement covered four main areas: “framing, narrative and vision; stakeholder mapping and planning; developing core programme products; [and] building capability within the in-house team and transfer of knowledge”.