Despite financial cuts and labour shortages, local councils need effective digital transformation to accommodate new policies and processes
Legacy technology is just one of the challenges hindering digital transformation within local councils and government. While a lack of funding also significantly impacts the ability to attract skilled professionals, resulting in a major skills gap across the sector. Despite the necessity of local government services, it has experienced huge cuts to its central government grant over the past ten years. Whilst a £2.4 billion increase in inflationary costs threatens many English councils to declare bankruptcy, writes Mark Gannon, Director of Client Solutions at Netcall.
Weiterlesen: GB: Digital transformation: Reshaping local councils
How do we strike a balance between collecting comprehensive data about citizens to maximise the benefits of smart cities, while protecting privacy rights?
The collection and analysis of data in smart cities holds lots of promise. According to the UK government, it can “raise productivity, create jobs, improve safety, provide environmental benefits, and make public services more efficient and accessible”.
It can also, the government says, do that cheaply. The £24m Future City Glasgow project is said to have had an initial return on investment of £144m.
Weiterlesen: GB: Will smart cities tilt the balance between data capture and personal privacy?
The public sector has a digital skills gap which requires urgent action – to solve this, employers can advance workplace technology skills through multidisciplinary methods
In the past two years, we have learned technology plays a pivotal role in meeting the growing requirements of every sector, especially in the wake of shrinking budgets and ongoing digital skills gaps.
Weiterlesen: GB: Filling the public sector’s digital skills gap through employee empowerment
Long-promised ‘smart’ bus shelters have been delayed because of supply issues caused by the war in Ukraine, according to the latest excuse offered by Town Hall officials.
Long-suffering bus passengers travelling around Croydon are facing a second winter in the rain, sleet and snow without even the modest comfort afforded by a shelter at many of the stops in the borough.
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
In June, the UK government’s now-former Tech Minister, Chris Philp, outlined the latest national Digital Strategy. Offering a single vision to grow the country’s Digital Economy, the strategy seeks to ensure that digital technology, infrastructure and data drives economic growth and innovation in the coming years. If executed well, the strategy promises to lead to new jobs, skills and services that benefit and level up the whole of the UK with an effective digital transformation.
Weiterlesen: Can Britain truly undergo an effective digital transformation?