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Crystal clear: Sir Ian Diamond on using data to profile the pandemic By Matt Ross on 11/05/2021 Diamond briefs the public at a daily COVID-19 press conference last year: his agency’s data has helped shape policies and communications during the pandemic. Credit: Pippa Fowles/Number 10 Downing Street/Flickr. The UK civil service has transformed its data operations during the pandemic, says Office for National Statistics chief Professor Sir Ian Diamond – web-scraping, integrating datasets, and building partnerships with businesses and foreign governments. And with more analysts and statistic...

Better integration could save government £850k per digital service, minister claims Work to ensure tasks are not replicated across different tools could deliver significant financial benefits Photo: Crown Copyright/Open Government Licence v3.0 07 May 2021 Work to better integrate digital services could save government as much as £850,000 of spending on each one, a minister has claimed. A key ambition of government’s digital transformation work in recent years has been to eliminate duplication, and ensure citizens do not have to provide the same information more than once. The oft-stated ...

UK’s digital leaders set out goals on data and skills By Adam Branson on 04/05/2021 The UK’s new central digital teams are to accelerate their work on digital skills throughout the workforce. Credit: Rob Thom/UK CivilService / Flickr The UK’s new central digital teams are to accelerate their work on data management across government, career development within the profession and digital skills throughout the workforce, the civil service’s digital leaders explained at an event last Friday. To help speed up the digitisation of services, said Joanna Davinson – executive director of the ...

Government digital chiefs outline plans for CDDO and GDS Paul Willmott, Joanna Davinson and Tom Read talk about establishing a digital, data and technology sub-board, plans to hire a chief technology officer and a chief data officer, and a five-year plan for the Government Digital Service Share this item with your network: By Published: 04 May 2021 14:29 Paul Willmott, chairman of the government’s Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), is in the process of creating a digital, data and technology (DDaT) sub-board for the existing civil service board. And speaking at a virtual Institut...

The Government is planning to create a sub-board for digital, data and technology within the Civil Service Board. Joanna Davinson, executive director of the recently created Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) within the Cabinet Office, referred to the plan during an online presentation organised by the Institute for Government Thinktank. She said it will work with the CDDO to boost the efforts around central government to bring data, policy and operations together. “We need to get a lot better at communicating and engaging with policy and operational colleagues,” Davinson said. “The...