Gilding the ‘golden records’: finding a single source of truth in government
By Adam Green on 02/06/2021
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
To build services around users’ needs, departments need a common frame of reference and ways to reconcile conflicting information. At a recent GGF webinar, experts from governments, the OECD and the private sector explored how civil service bodies can make progress on the thorny but unavoidable challenge of master data management
In Lithuania it started with a map.
When Gintautas Mežetis, director of the country’s Committee on the Development of the Information Society, began thinking about a data strategy with his colleagues, they drew out the existing inputs to government information systems.
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that the economy was likely to experience some “teething problems” following Britain’s departure from the European single market and customs union on Jan 1. Five months on and Johnson was not wrong, though he might be guilty of an understatement. The UK Office for National Statistics revealed last .
United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that the economy was likely to experience some "teething problems" following Britain's departure from the European single market and customs union on Jan 1.
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A plane from an Irish company, flying on an inner-European route from Athens to Vilnius, was hijacked and escorted by a Belarusian fighter jet outside EU-territory to arrest a journalist who had sought refuge in Poland – it’s straight from the good, old KGB playbook.
It is, indeed, a remarkable (and rather bold) act of air piracy, considering Europe’s Eastern Flank is not the worst protected border in Europe.
But the Lukashenko regime and his Moscow overlords may have miscalculated, though so far they do not seem impressed by the new sanctions from Brussels and the closure of European airspace to Belarusian airline Belavia.