Palantir
Government warned on free (and competition-free) Palantir contracts over Ukraine scheme
HMG's Chief Commercial Officer wrote to the data software firm to raise concerns, which it rejects.
emissions
UK government IT emissions are climbing
"As consumers we all need to look at that consumption and usage data as our baseline... and then design and deliver more efficient digital systems and services"
Oracle
Larry Ellison: We’re rewriting $28 billion Cerner “a piece at a time”
Comments come after a Veterans Affairs audit found that a $16 billion Cerner deployment had caused "patient harm"
digital transformation
E-stonia: How the Baltic minnow became a tech powerhouse
Automatically generated government services? 0% tax on reinvested profits? The most unicorns per capita in Europe? Estonia's a technology powerhouse in the Baltics. Lara Olszowska went to find out how it did it...
central government
Can £160 million and the cloud fix the DWP’s dismal contact centres?
One DWP contact centre services provider reported a shocking 173 SLA breaches in a single year....
central government
Job of the Week: Chief Data Officer, HMG
Role up your sleeves, gird your loins, dust off those "outstanding influencing, negotiating and conflict resolution skills"
Enterprise IT
DWP goes to market for emergency IT payments infrastructure
The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking a provider of emergency payment infrastructure to help make sure it can continue making 2.5 million payments daily worth some £3.7 billion per week. The new infrastructure should ensure it can continue making the payments to a