The government has just published a new Digital Inclusion Action Plan, which aims to address the problem of digital exclusion by funding local initiatives targeted towards the most digitally-excluded groups.

In this issue of Government Technology, Elizabeth Anderson from the Digital Poverty Alliance gives some advice on helping communities with the digital phone line switchover.

techUK will investigate how the regional digital divide is hindering the UK’s growth, and provide some insight into their Central Government Council.

Socitm recently published their Public Sector Digital Trends report for 2025, which focussed on reimagining services, cybersecurity and harnessing data. In this issue, Socitm President Carol Williams will look at the cyber security findings from this report.

Manchester City Council and Norfolk County Council tell us how they are using technology to improve services and we also have a look at how AI is being used by teachers.

There's also a special supplement looking at the G-Cloud framework and how cloud can be of use to the public sector.

Polly Jones, editor