All posts tagged "Technological innovation"

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  Taking on the tedious: automation in government

  Robotic Process Automation is too often seen as a threat to jobs – but in truth it makes people’s working lives more interesting and fulfilling, the audience heard at a

  • Posted November 15, 2021
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  China unveils AI ethics code

  Artificial intelligence (AI) in China will remain “under meaningful human control” according to the country’s first set of rules which will govern every aspect of the emerging technology from its

  • Posted October 8, 2021
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  Overcoming AI bias to empower an equitable society

  Reasoning frameworks of artificial intelligence used in criminal justice and health care systems move us to rethink how AI can be constructed to help foster an equitable society.  We interact daily with algorithms that

  • Posted August 25, 2021
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  Finding the growth elixir: how to build high-tech business clusters

  Thriving in the pandemic, digital and science firms promise renewed growth to governments that can foster world-class tech hubs. But how can civil servants help researchers and start-ups to build

  • Posted August 2, 2021
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  Making artificial intelligence fit for a life inside government

  Move fast and break things; reward risk-taking; scale fast. These three credos have allowed technology companies to upend our everyday lives in the past two decades, while producing fortunes for

  • Posted July 16, 2021
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  Algorithm and blues: avoiding the traps in new tech

  Algorithms can be immensely valuable in public services; but as the UK’s ill-judged A-levels algorithm demonstrated, badly designed systems can damage citizens and governments alike. At a recent GGF webinar,

  • Posted June 30, 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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  Tech strategies not being matched by investments, UN report finds

  While governments around the world are recognising the importance of technology in building a green, sustainable future, too many are spending only small sums on research, a UN report has

  • Posted June 18, 2021
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  Human rights and AI: interesting insights from Australia’s commission

  The conundrum is one that many governments face: how do you make the most of technological advances in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) while protecting people’s rights? This applies

  • Posted June 11, 2021
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  AI could scale up disinformation campaigns, researchers warn

  Hostile actors could use automation to launch highly scalable disinformation campaigns with less manpower than is currently required, researchers have warned. A new report – Truth, Lies and Automation –

  • Posted May 27, 2021
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