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Councils need funding to maintain data innovations, says report Local government needs increased investment to ensure recent data-driven innovations are maintained, a new report has argued. The analysis by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) found the pandemic has accelerated the innovative way councils use data at a local level. It highlights a range of innovations by local government during the crisis such as Argyll and Bute Council’s trial of drone technology to deliver medical supplies and the VIPER tool in Essex to enable emergency services to share data in real time. It a...

Read later Audio version Summary: 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 w...

Date Time 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 towar...

CCS goes live with £800m NHS IT framework Digital Capability for Health framework covers development and IT management services for health and social care organisations Share this item with your network: By Published: 04 Feb 2021 11:25 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. This includes products such as ele...

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 Share this item with your network: By Published: 04 Feb 2021 9:15 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 ...