A local government GDS might work – but only on top of standard technology
By Mark Thompson • Originally posted in Computer Weekly The old debate about an equivalent of the Government Digital Service for local authorities has swung round again – but it will only ever work if it’s founded on common standards and technologies Recent murmurs of a local government equivalent to Whitehall’s Government Digital Service (GDS) […]
Insights from Professor Mark Thompson on the 6th Public Sector AI Conference
DIGIT Lab’s Professor Mark Thompson recently chaired the 6th Public Sector AI Conference, hosted by Digital Leaders on the 19th of March 2024. Writing in the Chair’s Blog for Digital Leader’s website, Professor Thompson offers his insight into the proceedings of the event: “This year’s Public Sector Innovation Conference came at the end of yet […]
A local government GDS might work – but only on top of standard technology
By Mark Thompson • Originally posted in Computer Weekly The old debate about an equivalent of the Government Digital Service for local authorities has swung round again – but it will only ever work if it’s founded on common standards and technologies Recent murmurs of a local government equivalent to Whitehall’s Government Digital Service (GDS) […]
The Year AI Forced Us to Face Our Digital Dilemmas
31st December 2023 As 2023 draws to a close, the digital landscape continues to evolve at breakneck speed. From the realignment of hybrid working and the reshaping of the workforce to the rebuilding of cryptocurrencies and the continuing investments in the metaverse, we’ve seen a great deal of change in the past 12 months. But […]
Digital Transformation is Dead. Long Live Digital Transformation!
Written by Alan Brown, 29 October 2023 In the past few weeks, I have been in three different discussions where I’ve been advised that the company doesn’t want to hear any more about digital transformation. It’s had its day. Old hat. Passé. I find that odd. In a world undergoing massive change, and desperately trying […]
A huge problem for society
It’s this stark: our precious public services cannot possibly survive for much longer in their current form. Take social housing, for example. The sector is suffering from a ‘perfect storm’ of a major cost of living crisis, inflation in the cost of repairs, continuing fallout from the 2015–19 rent reductions, ageing property portfolios, erosion of […]
Four patterns of data-driven design activities in new product development
In Industry 4.0, where digitalisation is stimulated through the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and machine learning, organisations are gaining access to an ever-increasing volume of valuable data from interconnected devices and sensors. This data-driven approach has been widely adopted by practitioners and gained researchers’ interest; but a comprehensive understanding of data-driven design activities […]
Assessing the Health of Digital Health
Here is a blog that I wrote in February this year, around the time that I was working with the UK government Open Innovation Team with one of their projects looking at the use of AI in the NHS. My analysis feels even more fitting six months on! The last few months have been particularly […]
Rethink how to develop and generate value from Internet of Things
At the close of the 20th century, the term “Internet of Things” was first introduced. Since then, the phenomenon driving this technological advancement has continued to grow rapidly, with projections of over 24 billion IoT devices expected to be connected to the Internet by 2030. In almost every industry, businesses engage in the rollout of […]
The Role of Creativity in Crowdfunding Product Design
Crowdfunding has emerged as a popular method for funding projects, particularly in the field of product design. The success of new product design and development is often attributed to creativity. However, previous studies have not specifically explored the impact of creativity on crowdfunding product design projects. This blog post is based on a paper which […]
