All posts tagged "Putting Citizens First"

• 
  Unchaining the bloc

  Behind all the hype about blockchain, there’s an idea with great potential. But as delegates heard at the Putting Citizens First conference, public servants won’t put aside their scepticism until

  • Posted September 9, 2019
  • 0
• 
  ‘Publish and polish’: how to clean up dirty data

  Public sectors may be short of cash, but they’re rich in data – giving them the tools to dramatically improve public services. Before picking up those tools, though, civil servants

  • Posted June 5, 2019
  • 0
• 
  Digital tech will bring ‘autonomous government’, claims Lithuanian ICT chief

  The head of Lithuania’s digital industry body sees a future in which services are wholly managed by AI systems. At the Putting Citizens First conference, he explained his radical vision.

  • Posted May 16, 2019
  • 1
• 
  Exchanging data, winning trust: the twin pillars of citizen-centric services

  When departments can exchange data, they can build services around citizens’ needs; but such data-sharing demands public support. Last month, an international panel discussed the potential to deliver citizen-centric services

  • Posted May 9, 2019
  • 0
• 
  Blockchain exiting ‘hype cycle’, says US GovLab chief

  Blockchain technologies have passed rapidly through a “hype cycle”, the head of a public sector innovation lab said last week – and what’s coming out of the other side is

  • Posted May 5, 2019
  • 0