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Government Digital and Data workforce growing at record rate

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Every six months we collect workforce data from digital and data functions across government. In this blog post we share core insights from the last return.

Transforming for a Digital Future - one year update (part 2)

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A year on from the launch of the Transforming for a Digital Future strategy, Sam Lawler, Deputy Director, Strategy, Analysis and Reform at CDDO shares a second blog on how government is undertaking digital transformation and the progress made so far.

Get Cloud Certified this October

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In celebration of the 10th anniversary, and the recent refresh, of the Government Cloud First policy, the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) is excited to announce UK Public Sector Cloud Certification October! This is the most exciting month for …

Combating modern slavery through artificial intelligence

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Last month, CDDO's Chief Executive joined the judging panel for the Civil Service Data Challenge final. The challenge which brings civil servants from across government together to design and pitch innovative ideas for the use of data to solve some of the UK’s biggest challenges. Read more about the winning idea.

A guide to creating user-centric data commissions

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A lot of us rely on getting data from outside our teams to help us to do our jobs. Data that we then use to make decisions. If higher quality data means our judgement can be more accurate, then it’s clearly in our best interests to do all we can to facilitate high calibre information …

Our Technical Cloud Community is blooming

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Our cross-government Cloud community is helping us make the right decisions about Cloud: Which Cloud? Private or Public? Managed service? Infrastructure as code? In this blog Phil Chatterton, Chief Enterprise Architect shares his thoughts on what next.