Four new projects across England to encourage more women, BAME, and neurodiverse candidates into a career in cyber security have been announced by Digital Minister Margot James.
200-plus public sector Identity, data and security professionals are registered to attend on November 29th from nearly 70 different central and local government departments - with interest from public sector departments across Europe (and wider), with attendees registered from France, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland and Nigeria. Have you confirmed your place at Think Digital Identity For Government 2018 yet?
So some clarity, which is welcome - but host of questions for suppliers, citizens and public sector digital service policymakers now need to be answered
DCMS says we’ll have something that soon, ‘Government Computing’ reports from techUK event - news that could spell the end of Verify
'Computer Weekly''s latest claimed scoop on the future of the project: 'plan aims to open up digital identity market - and might kill off GOV.UK Verify'
Google AI subsidiary DeepMind's Demis Hassabis asked to provide 'expert industry guidance' to help country 'build the skills and capability it needs to capitalise on the huge social and economic potential of AI', says Whitehall
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
Church of England to allow spires to boost digital connectivity in rural areas
Though fines would be a last resort and will not apply to operators which have assessed the risks adequately, taken appropriate security measures and engaged with regulators - but still suffered an attack
Communities Secretary says his new 'champion' will help the critical Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor achieve its full potential