All posts tagged "technology"
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Climate innovation finance ‘essential’ to meeting sustainability goals, says UN
Organisations involved in financing sustainability projects have been urged to focus on driving long-term system-wide change to help realise net zero ambitions. A meeting convened by UN Climate Change bodies
- Posted May 8, 2025
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Trump administration sets guardrails for AI use and acquisition within government agencies
US federal agencies received two memos on 3 April from the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) containing guidelines on how to use and procure artificial intelligence in government.
- Posted April 10, 2025
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Looking skyward: how governments are moving from cloud-first to cloud-smart
Cloud computing offers numerous benefits – but governments must ensure that its use is effective in providing rapid, secure, and stable access to digital services. At the Global Government Digital
- Posted February 21, 2025
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Innovation key to unlocking gains in productivity and resilience, says UK audit chief
Public service leaders should articulate risk appetite, harness the potential of new technologies and develop a culture of fast learning and adaptation if they are to boost innovation in government,
- Posted February 11, 2025
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President Trump signs fresh AI directive after revoking Biden order
The Trump administration has introduced an executive order that aims to solidify the US as the world leader in AI. The ‘Removing barriers to American leadership in artificial intelligence’
- Posted January 30, 2025
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Government DX 2024 – as it happened
GovernmentDX is an open conference held in Washington DC on 18 April that brought together global technology leaders to share insight and intelligence on how technology can be used to
- Posted April 21, 2024
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Digital direction: how to use technology to procure better – and how to better procure technology
Governments spend huge sums on digital technologies so getting procurement processes – and price – right is vital. And so too is using digital technologies to drive purchasing efficiencies. During
- Posted October 10, 2023
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Watch this space: do governments stand to gain from the metaverse?
The metaverse may have arrived, but its applications are limited and its use by public sector organisations is still very much up for debate. While some governments boast big plans,
- Posted June 18, 2023
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Treat AI with ‘same spirit of urgency’ as climate change, says UK PM
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak urged world leaders to view artificial intelligence (AI) with the same humanitarian concern they would climate change during a visit to the White House on
- Posted June 12, 2023
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Smart fellows: Kok Ping Soon on leading Singapore’s digital government army
As every digital leader knows, technology is a people issue – and no country has better technology people than Singapore. In his last weeks as a civil servant after five
- Posted May 14, 2023