All posts tagged "Digital"

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  Robert Barrington, executive director of Transparency International UK: exclusive interview

  As the UK prepares to host an anti-corruption summit designed to break the deadlock on global action, Robert Barrington, the UK head of Transparency International tells Matt Ross that Britain

  • Posted April 28, 2016
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  Renewal plans set to silence Westminster’s Big Ben

  The chimes of the UK’s iconic Big Ben bell, which tolls every hour in the Houses of Parliament’s Elizabeth Tower, are to fall silent as the 160-year-old tower undergoes a

  • Posted April 27, 2016
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  New health booking system tackles corruption and cuts waiting times

  A new appointment booking system introduced in the city of Canoas, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul region, has boosted the number of daily consultations from 900 to 2,000. The

  • Posted April 19, 2016
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  Australia and UK sign agreement to collaborate on digital transformation

  Australia and the UK have signed an official agreement committing both governments to share information and help each other in developing digital public services. Both governments’ digital teams – Australia’s

  • Posted April 13, 2016
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  Jon Thompson, former permanent secretary of the UK Ministry of Defence, and now chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs: Exclusive Interview

  In any ranking of the developed world’s most challenging government jobs, digitising the UK’s tax collection and challenging its civil service’s class system would stand high in the premier league.

  • Posted April 7, 2016
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  Australia’s Digital Transformation Office releases prototype of new gov.au

  Australia has published the first prototype of a new government website, focused around citizens’ needs rather than government structures. Civil servants at the Digital Transformation Office (DTO) have been working

  • Posted March 30, 2016
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  What’s so great about Estonia’s e-Residency programme?

  Estonia’s e-Residency programme has attracted global attention – and other countries may soon follow suit. Winnie Agbonlahor catches a glimpse of a future in which nations compete to offer people

  • Posted March 24, 2016
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  Satellite night signal project could help India’s government spread electricity

  A tool monitoring the use of light in Indian cities and villages could help the government in its effort to bring electricity to all the country’s villages by 2018, a

  • Posted March 21, 2016
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  Colin MacDonald, CIO for the government of New Zealand: Exclusive Interview

  New Zealand’s government chief information officer, Colin MacDonald, explains to Winnie Agbonlahor the digital innovations that prompted the OECD to make him chair of its e-leaders summit The OECD’s e-leaders’

  • Posted March 1, 2016
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  UK Defence Intelligence to establish new cyber warfare unit

  The UK is establishing a military unit dedicated to cyber and electromagnetic warfare, the chief of defence intelligence told an audience at the Ministry of Defence yesterday. Making a rare

  • Posted February 24, 2016
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