The Government Digital Service is overhauling its Service Standard, shifting it from a one-off assessment framework to a “living” standard designed to support continuous improvement, end-to-end services and cross-public sector collaboration.
Public sector organisations are under growing pressure to deploy AI to improve services and productivity, but concerns around security, compliance and accountability continue to slow adoption. David Rai, CEO and founder of Sparta Global, believes the organisations that succeed will be those that invest as much in governance, data quality and workforce capability as they do in AI itself.
NHS England is accelerating the rollout of AI across the health service, expanding AI-powered patient triage and clinical notetaking tools.
AI pilots are not failing because the technology falls short, argues Transform’s Will Lowe. They are failing because organisations lack the data, governance, leadership and operational foundations needed to turn promising experiments into production-ready systems that deliver measurable business value.
Resilience is now critical in the face of such a persistent threat, says Northdoor plc’s Chief Commercial Officer, AJ Thompson.
Andrew Puddephatt of Nutanix discusses why public sector organisations are redesigning infrastructure strategies around flexibility, portability and operational resilience.
Interest in agentic AI is growing across the public sector, but organisations must build trust, governance and internal capability before AI can be deployed at scale, according to Kainos’ head of responsible AI.
As AI reshapes the public sector, government organisations need to rethink how they prepare, structure and govern data, according to speakers at Think Data for Government 2026.
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South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils have modernised their technology environment by bringing IT services back in-house, replacing a long-standing outsourced IT model with a new Microsoft-based digital environment, including Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, delivered in partnership with Node4.
