All posts tagged "digital capabilities"
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Smart fellows: Kok Ping Soon on leading Singapore’s digital government army
As every digital leader knows, technology is a people issue – and no country has better technology people than Singapore. In his last weeks as a civil servant after five
- Posted May 14, 2023
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Five minutes with… AccelerateGov speaker Cristina Shimoda of Brazil
In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders that will be speaking at our free AccelerateGov conference on all things
- Posted September 7, 2022
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Canada’s former digital chief to lead on government ID verification at US university
Aaron Snow, who stepped down as Canadian Digital Service (CDS) CEO last month, has taken up the role of faculty fellow at Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and
- Posted October 18, 2021
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Government of Canada launches updated digital strategy
The Government of Canada (GC) has launched the latest iteration of its digital strategy, which includes a continued effort to introduce secure digital identities for citizens. In the foreword to
- Posted May 31, 2021
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A closer look at Singapore’s AI governance framework: insights for other governments
As officials across the world work to establish AI ethics codes, Amit Roy Choudhury argues that Singapore’s system provides a model for others at a time when common global standards
- Posted May 6, 2021
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UK’s digital leaders set out goals on data and skills
The UK’s new central digital teams are to accelerate their work on data management across government, career development within the profession and digital skills throughout the workforce, the civil service’s
- Posted May 4, 2021
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Time traveller: Israeli IT chief Shahar Bracha on digital’s leap into the future
The pandemic has supercharged progress on Israel’s digital services, says the head of its Government ICT Authority – and cleared the path ahead for radical reforms to create corporate IDs
- Posted April 12, 2021
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Scotland launches AI strategy with a focus on ethics and inclusion
The Scottish government has set out plans to focus on ethics and inclusion in its use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the public sector, publishing an AI strategy that maps
- Posted March 26, 2021
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OECD audits global capacity to support government AI
The OECD has embarked on an exercise to benchmark the computational capacity needed by national governments, as they seek to develop state-sponsored artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to transform services or
- Posted January 28, 2021
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COVID-19 pandemic drives govtech investment, says report
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven greater investment into govtech start-ups, according to a report. The study, published by StateUp, a London-based advisory firm focused on public sector digital innovation, explores
- Posted January 28, 2021