All posts tagged "Local Government"

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  UK launches specialist Government Digital Service for local authorities

  The UK has launched a new Government Digital Service Local unit (GDS Local) to improve digital collaboration between central and local government, streamline technology procurement, and support a joined-up approach to challenges

  • Posted November 25, 2025
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  Slick cities: How local authorities are using AI to tackle their most pressing problems

  AI offers huge potential for local and city governments to improve services for residents and to make operations more efficient. These public service organisations also often have the agility to

  • Posted July 16, 2025
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  Government structures ill-equipped to deliver climate-resilient infrastructure, report finds  

  Weak adaptation plans, undefined roles and responsibilities, and a lack of systems thinking are among the challenges preventing governments from delivering climate-resilient infrastructure, according to a new report. In its

  • Posted June 10, 2025
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  How UK metro mayors are focused on digital transformation

  A CGI analysis of the digital priorities of metro mayors around the UK finds many similarities in the areas of focus – but also several shared barriers Tara McGeehan, president

  • Posted April 28, 2025
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  UK ministry creates new directorate for AI and analytics

  A new directorate tasked with identifying the best ways to scale AI in local government services has been set up by the UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

  • Posted April 17, 2025
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  Singapore chief on the biggest challenges facing civil servants: learning pace and earning faith

  Many civil servants responded to the pandemic with enormous speed and innovation – and their populations noticed, said Singapore Civil Service Head Leo Yip at the opening session of the

  • Posted April 21, 2021
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  Moving mindsets and offices: how to successfully relocate civil servants

  The UK government has pledged to move 22,000 civil service jobs out of London by 2030 as part of its ‘levelling up’ agenda. At a recent webinar, experts discussed the

  • Posted March 29, 2021
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  Opinion: Ministerial errors have undermined the UK’s pandemic response

  The latest Whitehall Monitor report reveals just how badly ministers have handled the COVID-19 crisis, failing in key areas such as procurement and working with local authorities, argues Richard Vize

  • Posted January 29, 2021
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  ‘An iconoclastic government’: former DEXEU chief Philip Rycroft on threats to the UK and its democracy

  Philip Rycroft ran both the UK’s Brexit department, and Whitehall’s relations with the devolved governments. Now the former permanent secretary is speaking out: the Johnson government, he says, is ‘challenging

  • Posted October 16, 2020
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  Crisis response: an interview with Sir Suma Chakrabarti

  Suma Chakrabarti, the former UK permanent secretary and EBRD chief, sees opportunities as well as risks amidst the COVID crisis; but western governments, he warns, are fumbling their response. Matt

  • Posted August 27, 2020
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