• ODI announces new funding for local open geospatial data projects

  The Open Data Institute (ODI) has announced funding for four local government projects to explore new approaches to publishing and…
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• Has the time finally arrived for data to drive transformation?

  In his final blog post in the series about digital transformation in government, Rob Anderson, Principal Analyst for Central Government…
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• ODI wants geospatial data opened up to drive innovation and ‘built infrastructure’ data accessible to improve safety

  As well as earlier this week launching a series of ‘data trust’ pilots in partnership with central and local, the…
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• ODI to set up data trust pilots to ‘increase access to data while retaining trust’

  The Open Data Institute (ODI) is to set up the UK’s first ‘data trust’ pilots working with the government’s Office…
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• Healthcare and defence users take interest as Virtustream bids to make mission critical success of multi-cloud movement

  Recent research, notably a report, Multi-Cloud Arises from Changing Cloud Priorities, explored the shifting business priorities in the enterprise and how…
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• Defence and Security Accelerator Hackathons open for registration

  The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is looking for participants for the Real-World Incident and Defence Logistics Hackathon in London….
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• UK universities awarded £25.5m EU funds for innovative digital projects

  The European Innovation Council (EIC) has selected 38 innovative projects to develop new ideas towards radically new future technologies.  Nine…
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• Europe’s Digital Agenda (15-19 October)

  Welcome to this edition of Europe’s Digital Agenda. In this space I uncover and detail last week’s digital developments from…
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• “AI won’t live up to the hype without trust”, think tank warns Euro leaders at Tallinn digital summit

  The Centre for Public Impact (CPI), a not-for-profit foundation, told government leaders gathered at the Tallinn Digital Summit in Estonia…
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• Finland makes bold bid to be at forefront of European AI leadership

  This week we attended an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tour in Finland. During the tour we met senior officials from across…
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