Further scrutiny urged over government blockchain proposals
Open Data Institute welcomes Sir Mark Walport’s findings on distributed ledger technologies, but calls for clear focus around testing and privacy safeguards
View ArticleCoventry chief exec calls for debate over "outdated data sharing protocols"
Martin Reeves believes "devolution, combined authorities, and the whole shifting tectonic plates" offers prospect of a new discussion over data sharing protocols
View ArticleGreater Manchester Combined Authority to launch data sharing body
Creation of GM-Connect intended to support area's integration of health and social care and wider reform of public services
View ArticleNews in Brief – January 26
Wandsworth approves business rates contract extension, South Wales Police control room solution overhaul goes live and Defra publishes key flood defence dataset
View ArticleCabinet Office spend data now updated to May 2015
Key spending data sets for first five months of 2015 has been published after commitments by Matt Hancock to address delays
View ArticleSurvey indicates Whitehall's data sharing progress
CGI study says collaboration a priority for civil servants - but data sharing patchy; just 8% of respondents say their departments are practising open data; Internet of Things yet to reach Whitehall's...
View ArticleNews in Brief - February 9
HP awarded Scottish Government desktop client devices framework deal, Treasury-convened group backs open banking standards and a remove service function is added to G-Cloud for suppliers
View ArticleNEC and Bristol is Open get smart together
Partnership between Japanese vendor and Bristol City Council-University of Bristol JV intended to accelerate progress toward creating world's first open programmable city
View ArticleHome Office plan highlights key role of data analytics and digital interfaces
Role of PCCs, investigatory powers legislation and shared services also discussed in five year departmental strategy
View ArticleNews in Brief - February 23
Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DOS) launch is delayed until April, Cabinet Office updates spend figures to end of 2015 and Bristol issues £11m tender for ticketing solution
View ArticleGovernment launches data sharing consultation
Eight-week discussion will test public mood over data sharing proposals focusing on improving public services; tackling fraud and debt; and allowing use of data for research and official statistics
View ArticleCautious welcome for Budget data and devolution pledges
The ODI and LGA have given mixed responses to the chancellor's latest commitments to open data and support local authorities
View ArticlePreferred candidate unveiled for next information commissioner
The government has put forward Elizabeth Denham, the information and privacy commissioner for British Columbia, to take over from Christopher Graham at the ICO
View ArticleGDS seeks to better exploit open address data benefits
Department in discussions with numerous stakeholders over opportunities to link geospatial information with wider datasets both in and out of government
View ArticleNews in Brief - March 30
Natural England publishes 1000 open datasets; university consortium launches £600m computing framework and talks commence on Welsh open government developments
View ArticleCouncils get £500k funding for digital and data projects
34 councils have gained funding for schemes to transform local services; winners include Adur, Worthing and West Sussex, Leeds and Calderdale, and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
View ArticleHigher Education Statistics Agency plans data collection shake-up
HESA issues tender for IT services worth £3.5m-£7.5m over 14 years to support design and transformation of data futures programme
View ArticleCabinet Office spend data now updated to December 2015
Department is getting up to date with its data publication commitments, having been almost 16 months behind last December
View ArticleKelsey prominent by his absence from e-Health week
Former national director for payments and information is now Down Under as NHS England continues recruitment of new chief information and technology officer
View ArticleEU data protection bodies call for greater 'privacy shield' clarity
UK information commissioner Christopher Graham argues that European and US authorities must better address questions and concerns around the new data regulations
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