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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...

Clim8 raises $8M from 7pc Ventures, launches climate-focused investing app for retail investors Ethical investing remains something of a confusing maze, with a great deal of “greenwashing” going on. A new U.K. startup is hoping to fix that with the launch of its new app and platform for retail investors. Clim8 Invest has raised $8 million from 7pc Ventures (early backers of Oculus, acquired by Facebook),  British Business Bank Future Fund and a number of technology entrepreneurs and executives including Marcus Exall (Monese), Marcus Mosen (N26), Paul Willmott (Lego Digital, McKinsey), Do...

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