Seoul plans to invest $9m between now and the end of 2019 as part of the country's pursuit of 'a medium- to long-term plan for expanding blockchain technology'
Villagers in Michaelston y Fedw formed their own Community Interest Company to bring ultrafast Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband with an upload and download speed of 1,000Mbps to their community
Jersey Islanders can now use digital identity app Yoti at nightclubs and events – giving them a simpler and safer way of proving their identity, while allowing them to leave valuable ID documents safe at home, says the Crown Dependency's parliament
Do the latest official figures show slow but steady take up of the country's chosen national federated Digital Identity scheme?
There should be 'adequate, unrestricted, but supervised' blockchain growth - but it is still 'highly immature' and faces major challenges, says leader of a big Spanish bank, BBVA
Responsibility for the policy side of the country's flagship federated Digital Identity scheme has been quietly moved from GDS to another part of Whitehall - the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
'Just moving from one supplier at a slightly lower cost for the same service is not transformational,' ex-GDS Whitehall IT leader Iain Patterson warns his former colleagues
We should be seeing automation and software robots as potential trusted co-workers - not rivals, Fujitsu UK's Patrick Stephenson advises the audience at Think Smarter Working For Public Sector 2018
Whitehall has its issues, but its work remains central to the kind of high quality of life we expect in the UK - as, 'It's really easy to make money in Silicon Valley. It's really hard to detect Daesh propaganda on the Internet.'
Government is the 'largest and oldest service provider in the UK', delegates told at last week's Think Smarter Working For Public Sector 2018. But changing it into something that makes more sense to citizens is a job that we've just begun, warns GDS's Lou Downe
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