All posts tagged "Kevin Cunnington"

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  Know your knowledge: organising governments’ data assets

  At the Government Digital Summit, digital leaders from 15 countries debated their goals and frustrations in the gargantuan task of improving data management. Matt Ross hears how officials from the

  • Posted July 9, 2021
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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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  Rebuilding government for the digital age

  Governments are working hard to drive change in their digital journeys, but are they missing the bigger picture? At the Global Government Leaders’ Forum, panellists discussed whether the fundamental structures

  • Posted March 8, 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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  UK geodata and digital chiefs to step down

  The heads of the UK’s digital unit and its geospatial data strategy are both to leave their jobs, with digital chief Kevin Cunnington moving to a new role promoting UK

  • Posted June 24, 2019
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  UK ID verification scheme hit by “optimism bias and ill-defined objectives”, says watchdog

  The UK’s flagship digital identity verification system has been severely criticised by the National Audit Office, in a move likely to reinforce the search for alternative models among other governments.

  • Posted March 11, 2019
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  Innovation 2019 kicks off with five key lessons on policymaking

  At the first session of the Innovation 2019 conference on Thursday, civil service leaders from three countries identified five key changes that they believe could boost innovation in policy making.

  • Posted February 28, 2019
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  Expanding the comfort zone: GDS chief Kevin Cunnington on promoting innovation

  The UK’s Government Digital Service, long a tech pioneer, has turned its attention to promoting innovation. Director general Kevin Cunnington tells Matt Ross how he intends to help civil servants

  • Posted December 20, 2018
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  UK steps back from Verify ID system

  The UK has announced the end of public funding for its digital identity programme, Verify. Last week, the government signed five 18-month contracts with its certified private sector identity partners,

  • Posted October 16, 2018
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  UK to publish civil service ‘innovation map’

  The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has created a tool to map and record innovative use of technology across the country’s civil service bodies. GDS director general Kevin Cunnington announced

  • Posted July 15, 2018
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