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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Helping Out in Digital Jersey’s COVID-19 Challenge
We are delighted to announce that Professor Alan Brown has been announced as a judge in Digital Jersey’s COVID-19 hackathon taking place this week. Professor Brown joins a…
Community and Public Service Post-COVID
On 17th April I participated in a TechUK panel of people considering the impact COVID-19 is having on local public services, together with the themes that will be…
Helping set the strategic agenda at the Home Office
As the senior leadership of Police and Public Protection Team (PPPT) of Home Office Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) division gathered on 31 March 2020 to evolve their…
Public Sector Innovation Conference: Chair’s Blog
By Mark Thompson (pictured) Like ‘digital transformation’, innovation is an over-used and under-examined term. This applies within business generally, but more especially within the public sector, where there are…