Labour 'right' to be thinking about challenges of automation, but future has to be about skills and education, not deterring investment in productivity growth, warns IT industry trade body
Tech - including AI - has to be the main way local authorities deal with an era of permanent austerity, delegates told at last week's Think AI for Public Sector conference
Because of a shortage of civil servants with the appropriate IT skills, GDS had to rely heavily on interim staff during 2016-17, we now hear
Solving some of the issues facing us around AI are as big a challenge as solving public sector legacy data issues, Reform's Eleonora Harwich warned delegates at last week's Think AI for Public Sector
'AI is a big deal, the hype is ultimately justified - but along the way, expect cycles, Bubbles and crashes,' Nesta's CEO tells Think AI for Public Sector
Having a single repository that takes ownership of the data should be a far more effective way of providing access to vital clinical information, argues BridgeHead Software's European Medical Officer Saif Abed
In an intriguing look at the country's post-Brexit digital potential, a new report lays out practical steps to creating a non-London, but still Southern, tech area
'Freeing that up in the right, safe way could be the real key to the Digital Transformation we all want to see with public service delivery,' says firm's UK Head of Public Sector
'We don't need IT projects being re-badged as digital transformation - we need a proper Digital Transformation strategy set by the centre,' demands the firm's CEO, Simon Hansford
On Friday, "If you don't have developers, you don't have content. And if you don't have content, you don't have a service," GDS's Holly Ellis reminded delegates at Think Digital Government 2017
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