All posts tagged "Artificial Intelligence"

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  AI road leads to improved safety in Western Australia

  Governments are responsible for ensuring public funding is well spent. The Western Australia Road Safety Commission (RSC) is reducing road intersection crashes by using artificial intelligence to identify where to

  • Posted October 28, 2019
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  UK regulators: machine learning deployments set to double in financial services

  Research by the UK’s Bank of England (BoE) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found that the country’s financial services businesses are fast deploying machine learning (ML) technology to tackle

  • Posted October 24, 2019
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  New Zealand launches draft algorithm charter for government agencies

  The New Zealand government has launched a draft ‘algorithm charter’ that sets out how agencies should analyse data in a way that is fair, ethical and transparent. The charter, which

  • Posted October 23, 2019
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  UK Department for Work and Pensions accelerates use of robots

  The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is accelerating its use of automated systems to handle claims for benefits, in a move some fear will disadvantage welfare recipients. The

  • Posted October 22, 2019
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  Canadian CIO group publishes national AI standard

  A Canadian body representing chief information officers from the public, private and voluntary sectors has set out national standards for the ethical design and use of artificial intelligence (AI), in

  • Posted October 8, 2019
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  UK government to test AI procurement guidelines

  The UK will be the first government to test a new set of artificial intelligence (AI) procurement guidelines, which have been developed by global public-private cooperation body the World Economic

  • Posted September 30, 2019
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  Michael Wernick on turbulent times for Canada – and its Clerk

  Michael Wernick, Canada’s outgoing Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, tells Matt Ross how the civil service is responding to an ever faster, more fractious world;

  • Posted September 16, 2019
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  New Zealand beefs up IT security after government data breach

  New Zealand has clamped down on government agencies using unvetted IT service providers, following a data breach which saw a supplier inadvertently leak hundreds of people’s personal information.    The

  • Posted September 8, 2019
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  People power: why digital tech demands very human attributes

  To improve trust in government, civil servants must deploy digital tech to meet citizens’ needs. And as officials heard at Global Government Summit 2019, that requires an understanding of human

  • Posted August 30, 2019
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  US Department of Energy strikes AI partnership with Weill Family Foundation to fuel breakthroughs in neuroscience

  The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Weill Family Foundation have entered into a public-private partnership that aims to advance supercomputer and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to make breakthroughs

  • Posted August 29, 2019
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