All posts tagged "Digital"

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  UK and Singapore announce $5.1m joint research programme on cyber security

  The governments of Singapore and the UK are collaborating to fight cyber crime as part of a research programme worth $5.1m. The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

  • Posted December 17, 2015
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  John Manzoni, chief executive, UK Civil Service: Exclusive Interview

  A businessman brought into a top job in government, John Manzoni tells Matt Ross about the huge task of transformation facing the UK civil service For centuries, the UK civil

  • Posted December 16, 2015
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  UK civil service chief exec on learning from overseas

  What have top civil servants learnt from overseas, and what do they have to share? To help our readers get the best out of Global Government Forum, we’ve started asking interviewees

  • Posted December 14, 2015
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  Mike Bracken, former head of the Government Digital Service (GDS): Exclusive interview

  As HM Treasury gives the UK’s Government Digital Service the cash to embark on a new wave of reforms, its former head tells Matt Ross what it’ll do with the

  • Posted December 2, 2015
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  UK digital leader launches global consultancy

  The former chief of the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS), Mike Bracken, is today launching a new international consultancy with his four GDS co-founders. The business, named public.digital, will focus

  • Posted December 2, 2015
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  Former UK digital chief offers a welcome and a warning

  The former head of the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has welcomed last week’s three-year Spending Review, in which the unit was awarded £450m ($680m) to deliver its plans for

  • Posted December 2, 2015
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  UK government announces $18bn cut to departments’ spending

  The British government has announced £12bn ($18bn) worth of departmental cuts in its five-year spending plan as it seeks to return to a budget surplus. Chancellor of the Exchequer George

  • Posted November 26, 2015
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  UK government launches £6.5m cyber security research project

  Two UK government departments have today launched a cyber security research project after 18 companies pledged to invest £6.5m over five years. The project called CyberInvest will provide a forum for

  • Posted November 9, 2015
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  Australia appoints new chief scientist

  Dr Alan Finkel, the founder of a Silicon Valley robotic instruments company, has been appointed Australia’s next chief scientist. Finkel, who in 1983 established Axon Instruments, a California-based, supplier of

  • Posted October 28, 2015
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  Finland publishes €1bn implementation plan

  The government of Finland has released a detailed plan on how it wants to implement key projects worth more than €1bn. The Implementation plan for the key projects and reforms

  • Posted September 29, 2015
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