All posts tagged "Digital & Technology"

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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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  Collaboration, education and legislation: how governments are tackling online harms

  Governments across the world are racing to balance the needs of online freedom and openness with those of safety and security. At a recent GGF webinar, experts from Europe and

  • Posted April 26, 2021
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  Canadian budget leads with digital tax and IT investments

  Canada has announced plans for a digital sector tax and new funds for civil service IT projects, publishing a federal budget containing a swathe of announcements on technology initiatives for

  • Posted April 20, 2021
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  Brazil launches national AI strategy

  Brazil has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, which aims to balance ethical use of the technology while boosting research and innovation in the sector. Following a public consultation,

  • Posted April 13, 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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  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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  Digital disruption in my career: from civil servant to entrepreneur, and back again

  John Fitzpatrick, director for digital enablement at the UK’s Ministry of Defence, explains how embracing digital transformed his professional journey – even if it hasn’t always been plain sailing In

  • Posted February 22, 2021
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  Emotion recognition tech fundamentally flawed, says human rights charity

  Emerging AI-based emotion recognition technologies are “untenable” under international human rights law, and developing, designing or sharing such tech should be banned, a recent report has argued.  The study, which

  • Posted February 12, 2021
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  US defense must have foundations for AI integration by 2025, new report says

  The US Department of Defense (DoD) must set “an ambitious goal” to have the foundations for widespread integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across defence in place by 2025, according to

  • Posted February 4, 2021
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