All posts tagged "SMEs"

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  Shock absorbers: how data can make public services more resilient

  Public services – and the procurement processes that underpin many of them – have become more complex than ever in the last few years as the UK has entered the

  • Posted January 9, 2023
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  Flight path to recovery: how technology can help tourism SMEs bounce back post-pandemic

  COVID-19 killed the tourism industry. Now, governments and digital technology are playing a key role in helping them revive. At a Mastercard webinar, experts from the UN, Sweden, Malta, and

  • Posted July 27, 2022
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  Rebuilding Tourism Through Small Businesses

  What small businesses lack in size, they make up for in numbers. Governments can coordinate small businesses across the tourism sector to create the same economies of scale and liquidity

  • Posted May 16, 2022
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  Australia ploughs AUS$44m into new AI centres as part of national action plan

  The Australian federal government is to invest AUS$44m (US$32.6m) in four new artificial intelligence (AI) and digital capability centres to stimulate growth and employment. The investment aims to give small

  • Posted April 11, 2022
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  A slice of the pie: unlocking government procurement for SMEs  

  Small- and medium-sized enterprises offer a range of innovative products and services, but often face barriers when trying to do business with government. A recent webinar heard experts’ views on

  • Posted March 14, 2022
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  From response to recovery: public service leaders reveal their standout COVID-19 innovations

  From tracking apps to continent-wide collaboration, public and civil services around the world have responded to the coronavirus pandemic with a series of impressive new tools and approaches Faced with

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  Kazakhstan banks on small business digitalisation as engine of accelerated growth

  The Republic of Kazakhstan is about the size of western Europe and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the south west to Russia in the north and China to the

  • Posted August 16, 2021
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  Nordics lead EU’s innovation league table

  An annual exercise to assess which countries in the EU and beyond have created the best environments for innovation across their private and public sectors has hailed Sweden as the

  • Posted June 24, 2021
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  Australian AI plan promises new money and standards overhaul

  The Australian government will establish a new national AI centre, overhaul its public sector data standards and boost its direct investment in AI to almost half a billion Australian dollars

  • Posted June 22, 2021
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  Governments’ vital role to help small businesses flourish in a post-COVID world

  Two things that united us during the pandemic were the recognition that small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities, and our collective determination to keep them afloat. They are

  • Posted June 11, 2021
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