All posts tagged "Oliver Dowden"

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  UK deputy PM says embracing AI ‘will reduce civil service headcount’, Estonia’s ‘personal government’ vision, and more

  Welcome to Global Government Forum’s AI Monitor The use of AI could potentially transform public services, with governments examining uses that range from automating back-office activities such as finance and

  • Posted March 7, 2024
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  AI key to ‘transform productivity’ of the civil service, says UK’s deputy PM

  The UK’s deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden stressed the civil service’s role in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence as Whitehall prepares to apply the technology to government operations and

  • Posted January 9, 2024
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  UK government risk register sets out 89 serious threats to national security and safety

  The UK has set out the top threats the country faces, as part of what a senior civil servant said was an effort to provide a “comprehensive understanding of the

  • Posted August 6, 2023
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  Details emerge of UK civil service job cuts – but minister backs away from 91,000 target

  A senior minister has said that the UK government is to go ahead with plans for job cuts in the civil service due to “budget pressures” – but has indicated

  • Posted January 31, 2023
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  FDA union chief fires back at criticisms of remote-working UK civil servants

  The general secretary of the FDA union Dave Penman has hit back at Conservative party co-chairman Oliver Dowden for criticising civil servants who work from home. Dowden said earlier this

  • Posted October 6, 2021
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  UK open banking users surpass two million with payments projected to drive further growth

  More than two million people are now using open banking-enabled products in the UK – a doubling in usage in just over six months, despite the challenges created by the

  • Posted October 1, 2020
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  UK unveils Technology Innovation Strategy

  The UK government has published its Technology Innovation Strategy, which sets out how it will implement digital technology to improve service delivery. The Cabinet Office’s minister for implementation, Oliver Dowden,

  • Posted June 18, 2019
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