All posts by Adam Green

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  Easy money: transforming tax collection

  By digitally transforming the collection of financial data, governments can streamline and automate the process of assessing and collecting business taxes. But to successfully deliver reforms, the panellists warned at

  • Posted October 11, 2021
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  Making artificial intelligence fit for a life inside government

  Move fast and break things; reward risk-taking; scale fast. These three credos have allowed technology companies to upend our everyday lives in the past two decades, while producing fortunes for

  • Posted July 16, 2021
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  Algorithm and blues: avoiding the traps in new tech

  Algorithms can be immensely valuable in public services; but as the UK’s ill-judged A-levels algorithm demonstrated, badly designed systems can damage citizens and governments alike. At a recent GGF webinar,

  • Posted June 30, 2021
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  Gilding the ‘golden records’: finding a single source of truth in government

  To build services around users’ needs, departments need a common frame of reference and ways to reconcile conflicting information. At a recent GGF webinar, experts from governments, the OECD and

  • Posted June 2, 2021
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  Being smart with artificial intelligence: deploying AI in the public sector

  AI has huge potential value in policymaking and service delivery – but the emerging tech has a unique set of risks. At a GGF webinar, civil service leaders from the

  • Posted May 17, 2021
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  Common data standards are essential for governments – but so is public trust

  Standards and infrastructure are central to improving data-sharing across government, a recent GGF webinar found. But equally important is a less tangible asset: public confidence and engagement. Adam Green reports

  • Posted March 15, 2021
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  Births, deaths and everything in between: designing services around peoples’ lives

  At key moments in life, people have enough to be doing without interacting with multiple public services. So governments around the world are connecting systems – making life easier for

  • Posted February 24, 2021
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  Find your identity: making progress on digital ID verification

  Every country wants a digital ID system – but few have successfully built them. At a recent GGF webinar, civil service leaders from Germany, Norway, and digital trailblazers Estonia and

  • Posted November 18, 2020
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