All posts tagged "Ethics"

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  Policing politics: how to restore ethical standards in government

  A recent Institute for Government event debated how to restore the British public’s faith in politicians – which, long tenuous, was further undermined in Boris Johnson’s chaotic stint as PM.

  • Posted May 5, 2024
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  Gain and maintain: how government can build trust in the era of digital transformation

  “One of the things about trust is it takes a long time to build and can be lost in a split second.” In our latest episode of the Government Transformed

  • Posted February 22, 2024
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  Canada reviews public service values; UK’s opposition leader vows to tackle civil service churn: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Canada looks to update public service values and ethics The Canadian public service has released

  • Posted January 11, 2024
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  UK has ‘gone backwards’ on standards in public life, says ethics chief

  A year after Lord Evans took on the job of chair of the UK’s Committee on Standards in Public Life, Boris Johnson became prime minister – making the former spy

  • Posted October 23, 2023
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  UK NHS to test AI systems for biases in healthcare

  The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is trialling a programme designed to identify algorithmic biases in systems used to administer healthcare. Its aim is to use Algorithmic Impact Assessments (AIAs)

  • Posted February 14, 2022
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  US forms expert committee to advise on artificial intelligence

  The US is establishing a National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) to advise president Biden and federal agencies on artificial intelligence (AI) research, ethics and development. The Department of Commerce

  • Posted September 15, 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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  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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  Ministers must be challenged on misleading statements, says former cabinet secretary

  Former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell today expressed frustration with ministers who make false statements or skew statistics, a trend he says is eroding public trust in government. Speaking at an

  • Posted March 17, 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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