Accelerating digital innovation for growth, impact, and transformation of large established organizations.

A local government GDS might work – but only on top of standard technology

Imposing yet pretty town hall in Barnsley

By Mark Thompson • Originally posted in Computer Weekly The old debate about an equivalent of the Government Digital Service for local authorities has swung round again – but it will only ever work if it’s founded on common standards and technologies Recent murmurs of a local government equivalent to Whitehall’s Government Digital Service (GDS) […]

Digital Manufacturing panel participation

Prof Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen participates in a Panel on Digital Manufacturing together with Prof Tim Minshall, Dr Leitizia Mortara, and Prof Jill Macbryde IFM University of Cambridge, hosted by the ESCR Interact network. Find out more on LinkedIn Image here courtesy of Drawnalism Ltd Image description: This image is a colourful and dynamic graphic recording by […]

Digital Innovation: Cycling and Local Government Workshop

DIGIT Lab’s Prof Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen, with Dr Boyeun Lee and partners See.Sense, brought together stakeholders across the cycling, and local government across the UK to develop ideas for behavioural change and generate planning infrastructure from data. Leading to several new ideas generated from a data-driven approach.

Digital technologies driving new product & services: Workshop Series

with Dr Boyeun Lee and Prof Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen Register now – for next week’s workshop The next workshop will be held on 15 June in London. Invited speakers will introduce their industry cases and current research on using data for innovation. Find out how quantitative and qualitative datasets can help your business tackle current challenges. […]

Expanding ethical review processes for AI and data science research

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 12–1pm BST Watch the recording In this seminar, Dr Niccolò Tempini (University of Exeter) will discuss his work with the Ada Lovelace Institute and Alan Turing Institute producing the report ‘Looking before we leap: Expanding ethical review processes for AI and data science research’. Research in the fields of artificial intelligence […]

The Digital Podcast: Mark Thompson – Digitalizing Government and Public Sector Organizations

Mark Thompson discusses the challenges and opportunities of transforming government and public sector organizations with digital technology.  The Digital Podcast explores how different organizations transform the way they create and capture value with digital technology. The podcast is technology- and sector-agnostic and examines both incumbents’ and new startups’ innovative uses of digital technologies. The Digital […]