A major government trial has demonstrated that AI coding assistants are significantly enhancing productivity among developers across the public sector, saving nearly an hour of work per day per coder, which is equivalent to 28 working days each year overall.
What does effective digital transformation look like? The UK needs to grow its digital economy to suit all of the job opportunities predicted to rise in the next few years – but a world-leading skills framework is needed.
While a lack of funding has been a key barrier, the need to integrate legacy systems and the mammoth scope of many projects have also slowed down progress. On top of this, the failure of some iconic digital projects has created a hesitancy to adopt new technology.
New guidance on geospatial data in the public sector has been published, setting rules on assessing the economic, social and environmental value of investments in location data.
The use of open source software has exploded in recent years, with an estimated €1 billion invested in open source technology within Europe in 2018 alone
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