Transformation in Africa: Here, Mounia Boucetta, Affiliate Professor at University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, explores how global megatrends are reshaping industrial economies and creating new opportunities for Africa’s industrial emergence.
Real-time data is the lynchpin for any progressive government, enabling it to improve efficiency, enhance operations and communications, provide improved services for citizens, uncover fraud and lower the risk of cyberattacks.
To ensure that new NHS technology does not overlook older patients, a survey has taken patient’s comfort levels of using digital services
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What does effective digital transformation look like? The UK needs to grow its digital economy to suit all of the job opportunities predicted to rise in the next few years – but a world-leading skills framework is needed.
The public sector has a digital skills gap which requires urgent action – to solve this, employers can advance workplace technology skills through multidisciplinary methods.
Government services, including the private and public sectors, can adapt to digitalisation together when embracing data sharing and encouraging innovation.
While a lack of funding has been a key barrier, the need to integrate legacy systems and the mammoth scope of many projects have also slowed down progress. On top of this, the failure of some iconic digital projects has created a hesitancy to adopt new technology.
Digitised Smart Nation drives will continue to push people's limits and potential for the future, and smart living will impact people's health, mental health, and well-being.
Digital Outcomes and G-Cloud 13 have had an update for CCS customers and suppliers, including discussing buyer accessibility and commercial agreements.
New guidance on geospatial data in the public sector has been published, setting rules on assessing the economic, social and environmental value of investments in location data.
Over the last 12 months, more than 16 million repeat prescriptions were ordered through the NHS app – proving just how crucial digital access to health care is in 2022 NHS Digital.
The new “plug-and-play” biobattery developed by researchers at Binghamton University State University of New York, has proven its worth – with the team revealing it can last for weeks at a time.
