IFS - Cheapflation and the rise of inflation inequality
Using household scanner data for fast-moving consumer goods, we show that this was accompanied by historically high rates of inflation inequality.
Updated: Wed Aug 14 2024
AI in public safety and criminal justice SME survey
The AI sub-group is currently looking into the different innovative AI technologies in the criminal justice and blue lights space, and we need your input!
Updated: Tue Aug 13 2024
NIST publishes Post-Quantum Encryption Standards
Today, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published three out of its four expected Post Quantum Cryptography Standards which address the emerging security challenges posed by quantum computing.
Updated: Tue Aug 13 2024
Delivering at pace: introducing Common Tools as a Service
For the past few months, an MHCLG Digital team has been working on a new initiative called Common Tools as a Service (CTaaS), which is set to become an expanding area of MHCLG Digital. This blog talks about the progress and work that has emerged from MHCLG Digital's previous experiences and lessons learned in building services at pace and scale.
Updated: Mon Aug 12 2024
Event Roundup: Digital Public Contact Pre Market Engagement
The National Police Chief's Council (NPCC) Digital Public Contact (DPC) Programme supports the ongoing operation and development of Single Online Home (SOH), a national capability providing websites and other digital public services for 41 police forces.
Updated: Mon Aug 12 2024
Trophy hunting ban undermines African conservation efforts, warns new IEA paper
African leaders, including the President of Botswana, have argued that the proposal is colonialist.
Updated: Mon Aug 12 2024
AUKUS takes another step forward with real-time AI trials
AUKUS nations test AI-enabled uncrewed aerial vehicles that allow a human operator to locate, disable and destroy targets on the ground.
Updated: Fri Aug 09 2024
Government announce funding for AI projects to improve productivity of public services
On Wednesday 7 August, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology announced plans to improve public services by using cutting-edge technology.
Updated: Fri Aug 09 2024
Kings Fund - Rocky path ahead before the NHS is back on its feet
Danielle Jefferies, Senior Analyst at The King's Fund, commented on the latest monthly NHS performance data
Updated: Fri Aug 09 2024
Meteors galore and a planetary conjunction: the night sky in August 2024
This month brings one of the best meteor showers of the year, an opportunity to see a conjunction of Mars and Jupiter and the chance to see our Moon pass in front of Saturn.
Updated: Fri Aug 09 2024
Government announce funding for AI projects to improve productivity of public services
By supporting 98 AI projects worth a projected £32 million, the government plan to improve the delivery of services across the country.
Updated: Thu Aug 08 2024
IEA - Chancellor should tread carefully on fiscal rule changes
Julian Jessop, Economic Fellow and the Institute of Economic Affairs comments on reports that the Chancellor is planning to change the way in which public debt is measured to allow for more borrowing within existing fiscal rules
Updated: Thu Aug 08 2024
Drumming up talent for future telecoms
It's a sobering fact that in the UK, 60% of telecoms engineers are over the age of 50 and perhaps starting to dream of retirement.
Updated: Wed Aug 07 2024
Hearts, Minds and OSINT
How will new technologies transform states' ability to win and maintain the support and cooperation of local populations in conflict zones.
Updated: Wed Aug 07 2024
NCSC Funded Cyber Essentials Plus Scheme
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched a Funded Cyber Essentials Plus Programme to provide qualifying organisations with help to implement baseline security controls to prevent the most common types of cyber attack.
Updated: Wed Aug 07 2024
The Police Industry Charter: One Month On
Principle One recently signed up to the Police Industry Charter, a charter between policing and the tech industry which makes a commitment on both sides to a set of principles in the design and delivery of products and services into the policing market. The Charter has been universally welcomed across the industry and since its launch in March, we have been reflecting on what we can do to begin to fulfil the commitments made under it.
Updated: Wed Aug 07 2024
Civil Service Digital Secondments Programme
The Civil Service would love to hear from tech companies both large and small who can help shape the future of the UK's digital services.
Updated: Tue Aug 06 2024
Labours First Steps in Education: A Giant Leap in Curriculum and Assessment Reform?
What will a curriculum and assessment rethink mean for the place and pace of technology in education?
Updated: Tue Aug 06 2024
Call for Contributions: Distributed Cloud and Edge Computing
techUK is inviting members to contribute case studies to an upcoming paper highlighting the potential for distributed cloud and edge computing to help accelerate innovation and boost productivity in the UK.
Updated: Mon Aug 05 2024
IFG - Labours missions need a reformed spending review process
The approach taken in recent spending reviews is not up to the job of achieving Labour's missions, warns a new Institute for Government report
Updated: Mon Aug 05 2024
IFS - The 22bn black hole was obvious to anyone who dared to look
"Frankly, nobody comes out of this smelling of roses". Paul Johnson writes for the Times.
Updated: Mon Aug 05 2024
JRF response to rioting and violence around the UK
Joseph Rowntree Foundation Chief Executive Paul Kissack responds to reports of rioting and violence in towns and cities around the UK
Updated: Mon Aug 05 2024
The Kings Fund responds to the GP funding announcement and GP ballot results
Alex Baylis, Co-Director of Policy at The King's Fund, commented on the announcement of funding to recruit more GPs, and the results of the British Medical Association (BMA) ballot for GPs to take collective action
Updated: Mon Aug 05 2024
Digital technology is central to delivering new governments Neighbourhood Health Service, finds The Kings Fund
Focusing on digital technology can be a key enabler to help deliver the unrealised ambition of moving care closer to home and help the new government achieve its vision of a ‘Neighbourhood Health Service', finds a new independent report by The King's Fund, commissioned by Nourish.
Updated: Fri Aug 02 2024
IFS - Compared to other countries, England is bad at building homes in areas with rising demand
While growth in the number of houses in England has kept pace with growth in the adult population since the mid-1990s, there has been a mismatch between where homes are built and where they are needed.
Updated: Fri Aug 02 2024