New Statesman’s Tech Monitor interviews Alan Brown
Alan Brown was interviewed by Pete Swaby, the editor for Tech Monitor (an online channel for the New Statesman). Alan shared his views on what the UK’s Digital Regulation Plan means for businesses. Read the full Tech Monitor article.
Delivering impact: Mark Thompson on blending research, policy, and practice
“I’m pretty obsessed with the role that technology can play in safeguarding our public services for future generations…” In this video, Mark Thompson discusses the practicalities, challenges, and benefits of blending roles in research, policy, and practice.
Public Policy Exchange – Digital Transformation in Local Government
Thursday 20 May 2021, 9.30 am – 1 pm Tear it all down: Why the UK needs a Localism in the Digital Economy Bill Mark Thompson’s talk is part of Digital Transformation in Local Government: Pursuing Post-Pandemic Strategies and Citizen-Centred Design Public Policy Exchange produces and delivers high-quality conferences and interactive seminars which provide an […]
Serving the Public Sector: What Being an Infrastructure Provider Really Means in 2021
I recently keynoted Amazon Web Services’ EME Public Sector sales community awayday, as part of our ongoing partnership with AWS. There were over 600 people on the call from all over EMEA. The talk invited delegates to consider the unprecedented possibilities for delivering social value that are open to major cloud service providers, in helping […]
Digital Leaders: Public Sector Innovation Conference 2021
Tuesday 2 March, 9am – 3pm Chaired by INDEX’s Mark Thompson, with Simon Swift as a speaker. As vaccines emerge and we can all start to think about a post-covid period of recovery, the government can “Build back better” and deliver the social value recent months has shown we need – often by bringing in […]
Digital Scotland: Strategies for Government as a Platform
Tuesday 19 January 2021, 2pm Part of the DigitalScot.live webinar series Presenting on ‘Learning from Heart FM – How Radical Digital Thinking Can Preserve Our Public Services‘, INDEX’s Professor Mark Thompson explores what the public sector might learn from commercial sector digital business models notably a ‘Platform’ approach.
E-Governments and Governing in the Digital Age (DIIESL Seminar)
Tuesday 24 November, 2 pm (GMT) Register on Eventbrite Governments and international organizations have increasingly been adopting digital technologies in the provision of public services in the last decades. The opportunities provided by digital innovations have hugely impacted the way the public sector has been transformed. E-government has been increasingly studied as a way to […]
International Internet Day on BBC Radio Devon
“Next to climate change, the internet is the single most defining factor affecting the shaping of modern society, modern business, all modern organisations, modern politics and the future of health”. Last week, our Professor Mark Thompson spoke to Caroline Cook for BBC Radio Devon. Their conversation centres around International Internet Day, wherein Mark succinctly covers […]
Two challenges for councils
On 2 July, housing secretary Robert Jenrick announced that a recovery and devolution White Paper will be published later this year. The paper and its outcomes will be ‘jointly commissioned between central government and local government’, and local authorities ‘[will] be at the heart of our ideas’. The White Paper thus presents one of those […]
Innovation in a time of crisis is all about speed…but also requires direction
An important and thoughtful piece this week by Roan Conway from the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) reminding us that speed is just one of the levers for innovation. https://medium.com/iipp-blog/purpose-driven-innovation-in-a-time-of-covid-19-296e9d05cb He points out that a lot of the rhetoric from the UK government is quite rightly about the urgent need for […]
