NHS COVID-19 app has “prevented 600,000 cases”
Research released by the Alan Turing Institute has found that for every 1% increase in app users, infections can be reduced by 0.8% to 2.3%.
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A new government hub in the UK aims to put data quality on the map
James Tucker, chief of the Government Data Quality Hub, wants to help government departments make their data ‘fit for purpose’
"CEOs are definitely the heroes of 2020" - running a bold claim from Salesforce’s Marc Benioff past the Edelman Trust Barometer
Governments have been dysfunctional during the COVID crisis and it's business leaders who have stepped up to the mark, argues Salesforce CEO Benioff, citing a shift in trust placement mirrored in large part by the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer.
President Biden issues ‘Buy American’ executive order for federal government spend
Newly inaugurated President Biden has signed an executive order to direct more of the federal government’s $600bn annual procurement spend to American businesses.
NHS Business Services Authority launches digital strategy without the ‘hype tech’
The NHS health authority is cantering its digital strategy around culture, practices and processes - rather than technology.
HMRC spends too much of IT budget on legacy, not enough on modernisation
The influential Public Accounts Committee has said that HMRC needs to set out how it plans to refocus its efforts on modernising its IT systems.
Europe’s seductive pitch to Biden - together we could rule the digital universe! (Just follow our lead!)
European Commission President von der Leyen has an offer that her new US (sort of) counterpart can’t refuse…she reckons.
Poor data access and lack of data sharing hampered UK response to COVID-19
The latest report from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee expresses that it is “regrettable” that poor data flows throttled timely analysis during COVID-19.
UK public sector spend soars in 2020 as government prepares for post-Brexit procurement overhaul
The latest report from Tussell highlights that whilst the UK economy is set to shrink, suppliers to government are fairly well protected from the COVID-19 crisis.
2020 - the year in government...and not just Brexit and Trump
Governments around the world have had to scale up digital services in response to COVID-19, whilst also grappling macro-political challenges.
