• New GDS Service Standard removes need for ministerial tests of services

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) has published a 14-point set of guidelines for government services,...
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• GDS to showcase digital transformation at five Sprint events in 2019

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) has said that it will conduct five Sprint events across...
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• Government’s Verify identity scheme gets a stinging rebuke from the NAO

  Alaa Owaineh, Lead Analyst, Public Sector, Global Data on the National Audit Office’s damning report...
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• GDS – Going Downhill Slowly?

  Global Data Principal Analyst for Central Government, Rob Anderson, on the GDS’s new Technology Code...
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• Can Zero Trust Networking work for the Public Sector?

  Mike Thomas, managing director of Innopsis, discusses the potential adoption of a Zero Trust networking solution and argues that a…
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• Etive completes Alpha of Verify project with Tower Hamlets and Hackney for local authority multi-service portals

  Digital identity specialist Etive Technologies has said it has completed the Alpha phase of a project working with the London…
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• Global Digital: why even abroad, for Public Digital, the strategy is delivery

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) still very much exists in government, but several of the key people behind its creation…
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• Quantum computing, AI, cyber and blockchain get boost from Hammond’s Budget – but unimpressed PAC warns of Brexit ‘elephant in the room’

  Quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security and blockchain were the ‘winners’ in terms of technologies to benefit from Chancellor…
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• Commercial concerns push two IDPs away from Verify as it heads towards private sector delivery

  The number of identity providers (IDPs) taking part in the Government’s GOV.UK Verify identity assurance scheme has reduced from seven…
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• GDS steps up EU Exit transformation role with recruitment of digital delivery advisor

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) appears to be stepping up its visibility and involvement in government EU Exit projects, including…
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