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The UK’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation highlights a number of barriers to continued, successful data use for local government beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that government institutions can provide better services for citizens when they have access to, and know how to effectively use, public datasets. The response to the novel Coronavirus has been strongly supported by access to health data, data sharing, hospital data, local services data and population data (to name a few).
Local government has shown that when it is given a mandate to use data more effectively, where there is a strong need, it can respond quickly. However, the progress made over the past year or so shouldn t be taken for granted, as there are a number of barriers to sustained momentum and continued progress.
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Action needed to maintain councils’ momentum in supporting communities through data-driven innovation
The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), the UK government’s advisory body on the responsible use of AI and data-driven technology, has published new analysis on the use of data in local government during the COVID-19 crisis. It draws on findings from a forum attended by local authorities across the country, in which they explored changes to data use during the pandemic and discussed barriers to data-driven innovation, as well as new research into public attitudes towards local data use. Key findings include:
The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the innovative use of data at a local level, with a range of data-driven interventions launched or repurposed during the pandemic. Examples include: the use of the ‘VIPER’ tool by local authorities in Essex, which has enabled emergency services to share data in real time; Argyll and Bute Council’s trial of drone
CCS goes live with £800m NHS IT framework
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The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has gone live with a four-year, £800m framework providing IT management services for NHS and social care.
The Digital Capability for Health framework, created in collaboration with NHS Digital, aims to help health and care organisations meet their needs in developing digital solutions.
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CDEI: Local government data use must keep up Covid momentum
The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation says momentum in local authority data use during the Covid-19 pandemic is in danger of being dissipated without central government investment and support for data skills development
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Good Covid data work in local government could run out of steam, the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) has cautioned.
The UK government’s advisory body on the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data technology has published some analysis on the use of data in local government during the crisis. This is based on a local authorities forum that explored changes to data use during the pandemic and discussed barriers to innovation based on data. The forum is one of a series of AI forums conducted by the centre.
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In 1836, the Scottish geologist, chemist, and agricultural improver Sir George Stewart Mackenzie was concerned about what he called the recent atrocities of violent crime in the British penal colony of New South Wales, Australia.
The root cause, he thought, was a failure to manage which criminals were transported to work in the colony especially the two-thirds of convicts who worked for private masters. At present they are shipped off, and distributed to the settlers, without the least regard to their characters or history, Mackenzie wrote in a representation [PDF] to Britain s Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Glenelg.