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UK government needs a digital reboot The appointment of new digital leadership is a welcome start to what – if the UK is to thrive in a post-Covid, post-Brexit world – must become a wholesale reboot of digital government Share this item with your network: By Published: 14 Jan 2021 It would be an understatement to say this appointment has been a long time coming – it took multiple delays and two rounds of recruitment to find the right candidate. However, the announcement – and with it t...

Optimizing public services: Cities that run their own operating system Watch Now For about a year and a half now, the UK government has been on the hunt for one of the biggest jobs in tech. The Cabinet Office has been recruiting for its next Government Chief Digital Officer (GCDO), a £200,000-a-year role operating at the most senior level of the civil service, to accomplish a seriously daunting task: to lead the public sectors digital transformation.   Now, fifteen months after the GCDOs jo...

Unravelling the new digital leadership plans in UK government About This Blog Computer Weekly\s editor gives a personal perspective on the biggest issues in technology and IT strategy. Latest Blog Posts Related Content US court issues Google API with Java ruling Employees express high expectations of IT in world of ‘work from anywhere’ Download Current Issue In September 2019, the then civil service chief executive John Manzoni told Computer Weekly that the new digital leader he w...

UK Cabinet Office announces new strategic digital unit By Kate Hodge on 13/01/2021 Building a new digital empire: Paul Willmott, chief digital adviser at LEGO Brand Group, will chair the newly created Central Digital and Data Office. Credit: Will Porada/Unsplash The UK’s Cabinet Office is overhauling the leadership of digital, data and technology, appointing a new head of the Government Digital Service plus leaders of a Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), which it says will act as a “ne...

Three years at ESN would have been three years too many for most Lindsay Clark Wed 13 Jan 2021 // 16:59 UTC Share Copy Joanna Davinson, who in her role at the Home Office spent the last three years overseeing the Emergency Services Network project – currently incurring £550m in additional annual costs because of delays – has been appointed executive director of the UK governments new Central Digital and Data Office. The new CDDO will sit within the Cabinet Office an...

The Cabinet Office has announced plans for a new entity and a trio of senior appointments for digital and data in the UK Government. It is setting up a Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) as a strategic centre for digital, data and technology, with Paul Willmott as its chair and Joanna Davinson as chief executive officer. This comes with the appointment of Tom Read as the new chief executive officer of the Government Digital Service (GDS). In a division of roles previously under the remit of...

Credit: Crown Copyright/Open Government Licence v3.0 Government has shaken up its digital leadership structure, including the creation of a Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) to lead tech strategy across departments and the appointment of a new leader for the Government Digital Service. The CDDO, which is due to open in early February, will sit within the Cabinet Office and will be led by executive director Joanna Davinson (pictured above). She joins from the Home Office, where she has serve...

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