‘Procurement managers need to recognise the very significant value of data the state has amassed, and which the tech titans are hungry for. This provides negotiating power – it should not just be given away.’ www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...@newstatesman.com
Too many people might be left out of its revolution.
You've got so many things right in this piece. Here are my thoughts on just one aspect. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ensnar...
I'm writing this piece after reading Hetan Shah's excellent article in The New Statesman, AI will not magically solve our public services and contributing to a short discussion thread on Bluesky, whic...
"High-stakes decision-making seems a bad place to start with AI – it might be wiser to start by automating dull, back-office processes, of which there are plenty to fix in the health service and local government" - Yes!
The state is not very good at amassing such data, in fact has been really poor at doing so. At EU level the Public Procurement Data Space is an attempt at improving the dysmal situation but one that in my view is unlikely to change the situation.
The Commission launched last week the PPDS, a service that is expected to aggregate data about public procurement in the EU. In essence it takes the data included in the eForms filled in by contractin...
Spot on re procurement. But depts need to have realistic costing approaches for the data they hold when it comes to commercial value - actually how much it costs to produce as a minimum but then added value potential. Maybe blind auctions/sealed bids and no ministerial schmoozing??