All posts tagged "contact tracing"

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  ‘The best leaders focus on inspiring and enabling their staff to give their best’: five minutes with… Ireland’s CIO Barry Lowry

  Lowry, who was director of ICT shared services and strategy for the Northern Ireland Executive before becoming the Republic of Ireland’s chief information officer in 2016, tells GGF about Ireland’s

  • Posted May 26, 2022
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  From response to recovery: public service leaders reveal their standout COVID-19 innovations

  From tracking apps to continent-wide collaboration, public and civil services around the world have responded to the coronavirus pandemic with a series of impressive new tools and approaches Faced with

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  Data protection: how digital tech shielded citizens during the pandemic

  In many countries, the inventive use of digital technologies has helped to support economies and protect citizens. At the Government Digital Summit, digital leaders from 15 countries compared their experiences

  • Posted June 23, 2021
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  COVID-19 contact tracing: the vital roles of people, knowledge and technology

  Tech can support efforts to manage the disease by automating cumbersome processes and improving the tracing workflow Let’s face it – contact tracing has always been difficult. First, its goal

  • Posted October 20, 2020
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  ‘An iconoclastic government’: former DEXEU chief Philip Rycroft on threats to the UK and its democracy

  Philip Rycroft ran both the UK’s Brexit department, and Whitehall’s relations with the devolved governments. Now the former permanent secretary is speaking out: the Johnson government, he says, is ‘challenging

  • Posted October 16, 2020
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  The science of systems: an interview with Stephen Lucas, Canada’s health chief

  The pandemic has given scientists a key role in shaping policies; but scientific methods, says Health Canada deputy minister Stephen Lucas, are just as helpful in managing systems. The former

  • Posted September 22, 2020
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  2020 vision: how data can paint a picture of the pandemic

  Around the world, governments are struggling to respond to this novel, fast-moving and catastrophic pandemic. At a recent GGF webinar, an international panel explored how data can reveal COVID’s behaviour

  • Posted August 26, 2020
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  The curative power of connectivity: using digital technology to support economic growth

  Coronavirus has shone a spotlight on the need for resilient digital infrastructure. Those watching a recent Huawei webinar – now available on demand by completing the form below – learnt

  • Posted July 27, 2020
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  Power with responsibility: deploying AI in the struggle against COVID-19

  Governments are striving to beat coronavirus, often turning to emerging technologies such as AI to help them do it. These offer tremendous benefits in times of crisis and otherwise. But

  • Posted June 23, 2020
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  Civil servants raise concerns over COVID app takeup rates

  Officials in India and Singapore have warned that low take-up rates are hampering the effectiveness of contact-tracing apps in tackling COVID-19, while UK surveys have highlighted fears over data privacy

  • Posted May 21, 2020
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