All posts tagged "GDS"

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  UK’s Cabinet Office wins back government data brief after two-year hiatus

  Responsibility for the UK government’s use of data has been moved back to the Cabinet Office from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), UK prime minister Boris

  • Posted July 24, 2020
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  UK officials’ focus on price damages IT procurements, report finds

  The UK civil service focuses too closely on price in procurement decisions, a new report has claimed, and “lacks the capability and capacity to fully understand” how new IT systems

  • Posted May 27, 2020
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  Beyond the gifted amateur: building a professional workforce

  Civil services need both the specialist professional expertise to deliver for ministers, and the authority to advise ministers on what is deliverable. At the Global Government Summit, top officials from

  • Posted May 15, 2020
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  Driving digital: the challenge of building tech skills – and the solutions

  Competing with businesses to recruit in tech jobs markets, many governments struggle to develop the capabilities for digital delivery. At the Government Digital Summit, senior leaders from 16 countries swapped

  • Posted February 26, 2020
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  Can the centre hold? How to establish a central digital team

  Central digital units can drive progress across government – but they’re not easy to establish or develop. At the Government Digital Summit, top officials from 15 countries heard how Sweden

  • Posted February 18, 2020
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  UK’s culture department appoints data policy lead – pipping Cabinet Office to the post

  The UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has appointed its first head of data policy, amid ongoing tensions between DCMS and the Cabinet Office over control of

  • Posted November 22, 2019
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  Life after the Public Services Network: how to make your next move

  The Public Services Network (PSN) that you rely on every day is fast, robust and secure. But now it’s being phased out and there is no direct replacement. Here’s what

  • Posted November 7, 2019
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  UK government promises digital progress metrics after critical report

  The UK has pledged to develop a “robust” set of metrics to measure the progress of digital initiatives, following a highly critical report which found the government’s digital agenda has

  • Posted October 28, 2019
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  Getting Brexit done: an interview with UK digital chief Alison Pritchard

  The UK prime minister may want to ‘get Brexit done’, but his Conservative Party has spent 40 months arguing over what that means; meanwhile, civil servants have had to build

  • Posted October 16, 2019
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  Digital Summit opens in London as UK strengthens central leadership

  The UK’s digital chief yesterday welcomed senior digital leaders from 16 countries to London for a day of debate on the shared challenges they face, as the government announced that

  • Posted September 20, 2019
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