Digital Social Care
A recent partnership between the members of Care Provider Alliance, Skills for Care and NHS Digital unveiled a new website named ‘Digital Social Care’ which launched on 27thJune 2019. Digital Social Care, which has funds extended until March 2021, is a new innovate space run by social care providers...
Read moreDigital Marketplace transitions to CCS control
The Crown Commercial Service has taken over responsibility for the running of the Digital Marketplace platform. As of 1 April, leadership was shifted to the procurement agency from the Government Digital Service. Some GDS employees working on the programme will be redeployed to other areas. What the shift of...
Read moreLeaders ‘struggling’ with digital transformation ambition
Public sector leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated with the slow progress made towards a fully digital government, according to a report. Deloitte’s latest annual The State of the State study, recently, assesses public services across UK and looks at the trends that will affect the future of government, including...
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Cloud Computing Spending Continues to Rise
Digital First thinks that we are still only on the cusp of seeing a dramatic shift from traditional on-premise data centres to cloud infrastructure, accessible anywhere, anytime and more securely. The trend continues with over £250bn will be spent on public cloud services in 2016, marking a notable 17.2...
Read moreMicrosoft opens UK Azure and Office 365 data centres
Microsoft has announced the opening of new data centres in the UK to allow customers to use the firm’s cloud services knowing that the data remains in the country. The new facilities in Cardiff, Durham and London will host the Azure cloud platform and Office 365 productivity suite. Dynamics...
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Digital First now on G-Cloud 8
Digital First is now officially confirmed as a G-Cloud 8 Digital Marketplace supplier providing services for Digital Design, Commercial Support and Care Marketplace solutions. We are still on the the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Digital Marketplace G-Cloud 7 framework This is the quickest and easiest way to engage Digital First Do...
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Government urged to extend GDS support to local councils
The government has been urged to extend the Government Digital Service’s remit to support local council departments by the Vice Chairman of LocalGov, Phil Rumens. In a recent interview, Rumens said: “The GDS has achieved some amazing things and the funding announced in last year’s Spending Review will allow...
Read more5 reasons why local government needs open source
Aingaran Pillai, CTO and founder at Zaizi, urges local government to unleash the potential of open source. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that local government is a sector under serious strain. In his latest budget statement Osborne outlined that his proposals would cost £34bn – £17bn...
Read moreDigital for the age of austerity
Digital transformation provides the ‘most plausible response’ to austerity, as local and central government faces further significant funding cuts, according to a report by Socitm. The ‘Living with austerity: making hard choices for ICT investment’ says that although digital should play a key role in creating sustainability in public...
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The Internet of things
Early phases of the Internet included connecting people to static information and more recently, people to people. Over the next decade, the Internet will evolve to connect people to physical things and also physical things to other physical things …all in real time. It will become the Internet of...
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