Building the Smarter State Week 2021 #techUKSmarterState
This week 13 – 17 September we are delighted to be running Building the Smarter State Week #techUKSmarterState in the run up to the seventh edition of our flagship public services conference, Building the Smarter State, which will take place on 22 September. For the last six years the conference has successfully attracted digital leaders from across the breadth of public and the private sectors to showcase how technology is shaping today’s and tomorrow’s public services – helping to build a smarter state.
It’s now been ten years since the launch of the report that led to the founding of the Government Digital Service, and it feels like the UK is on the cusp of the next big leap forward in digital Government. The decade since has witnessed both significant disruption and progression in public sector transformation.
Returning for a sixth year this year’s conference will explore the legacy of COVID-19, the changes that 2021 has seen in public procurement, the key leaders in the heart of Government brought in to supercharge digitisation and efforts to address the legacy estate, harness data and develop capability across the public sector.
Through blogs and case studies this week aims to explore themes from the next big leap forward in digital Government and how we get that journey right, including the key issues and technologies that will usher in the next decade, to how technology can improve citizen outcomes and the impact COVID-19 has had on public procurement.
A different theme has been assigned to each day of the week, which can be viewed below.
The themes for the week are as follows:
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