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31 January 2017 • 2 min read

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to hire a CDO just as the role starts to go stale

Despite recent claims from CIOs that the chief digital officer (CDO) role is already fading, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is hiring. The government department i...

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