Business and tech heavyweights to boost productivity through AI
New AI Opportunity Forum to ramp up adoption of AI in the private sector.
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MPs urge 'acceleration' of plans to set out top civil servants' digital responsibilities
Change to senior appointment letters "should be quite straightforward": PAC chair questions 2025 target
Source: civilserviceworld.com
Policymakers urged to 'ensure unambiguous rules and plan to share data' in checklist to ensure digital-readiness of government policy – PublicTechnology
A checklist of four considerations has been published by the Central Digital and Data Office to ensure that policy is designed so as to be effective in the digital world Government policymakers have been provided with a checklist of guidelines intended to ensure that government policy is crea
Source: publictechnology.net
Official British Government chatbot answers questions in French
Trial run ’hallucination’ casts doubt on Rishi Sunak's artificial intelligence hopes
Source: telegraph.co.uk
PAC calls on MoD to fix inventory management IT
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has called on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to urgently improve its inventory management systems.
United Kingdom Meg Hillier Matt Rodda Logistics Information Services National Audit Office Ministry Of Defence Mo
Source: computerweekly.com
CDDO publishes new generative AI guidance for civil servants
Expanded document suggests no-go areas for tech and doubles the number of “principles” to guide officials
David Knott Jim Dunton Office For Artificial Intelligence Cabinet Office Civil Service People Department For Science
Source: civilserviceworld.com
ONS chief cites need for departmental funding to support new £229m data platform
To ensure they can effectively contribute to the new Integrated Data Service, Whitehall agencies will need support for necessary work such as data cleansing, according to Professor Sir Ian Diamond A lack of funding for departments could curtail their contribution of data to the new cross-gove
Orkney Islands United Kingdom Ffiona James Data Service Public Administration Office For National Statistics
Source: publictechnology.net
Departments' funding woes could hamper £229m data-sharing platform
National statistician Ian Diamond updates MPs as Integrated Data Service moves towards full rollout
United Kingdom Jim Dunton Ffiona James Office For National Statistics Constitutional Affairs Committee Data Service
Source: civilserviceworld.com
MoD looks to identify cyber weak spots with £2.5m bug-bounty deal
The Ministry of Defence – which first used such reward programmes to find weaknesses in 2021 – is set to ramp up its engagement with ethical hackers, to help protect its networks The Ministry of Defence is set to expand its work with ethical hackers via a multimillion-pound agreement to help
Source: publictechnology.net
MoD has 11 legacy systems at 'critical level of risk' – PublicTechnology
Disclosures from a range of departments reveal that other organisations with multiple systems rated red on CDDO’s risk framework include HMCTS, DWP and HMRC – but some refuse to provide data At least 43 legacy IT systems across government are at a critical level of risk, with 11 of those bein
Source: publictechnology.net