Digital Government 2020 Agenda

• The Government Digital Service (GDS) set up GOV.UK – the single website for the UK government – over 7 years ago, bringing more than 175 services across 25 ministerial departments and 385 public bodies on to a single domain.
• GOV.UK provides vital information, supports people in complex life events and helps departments deliver on cross-cutting policy challenges.
• GOV.UK is the digital face of government. It is where users interact with government. This gives it a unique opportunity to transform the way government works for people.

• Impact and benefits of 5G rollout on UK  
• Covid-19 – importance of connectivity 
• Huawei’s role in the UK 

• Protecting privacy and understanding citizens’ fears and priorities in order to promote trust around data-driven technologies
• Shaping recommendations and advice for policy and regulatory action to support responsible and ethical innovation
• Analysing and anticipating the opportunities and risks posed by the greater use of data in transforming citizen experience

Sponsored roundtable – Huawei, led by Ashley Lumsden, Head of Government Relations, Huawei

• Supporting local government in digital innovation to fix the plumbing and improve citizen services
• Developing service-oriented technology through collaboration between the public and private sector
• Assessing how the Local Digital Declaration has helped local authorities so far

• Addressing the digital revolution and the evolving landscape
• Exploring the value of cloud as a digital enabler for government innovation
• Combining the right cloud strategy to digitise quickly, effectively and securely
• Exploring the best practice next steps to drive government digital transformation

• Ensuring that all Norwich residents have the access, skills and confidence to participate in the expanding digital environment
• Overcoming the barriers to digital engagement; providing training, support and encouragement to get people online
• Targeting digital access and support to the most vulnerable groups within Norwich

Case studies and Q&A on successfully implementing seamless staff roaming using govroam, the staff roaming service for the UK public sector. Project leads from KPSN and NYnet will explore how the service is being used by local authorities, the NHS, and the wider public sector in Kent and North Yorkshire respectively.

• Case studies from Kent and North Yorkshire, exploring real-world applications and impacts of roaming connectivity.
• Staff roaming and disaster preparedness, focusing on COVID-19 and Brexit responses.
• COVID-19 as a driver for change – the need for more agile ways of working across increasingly flexible estates.
• Working in partnership – facilitating collaboration across sites, sectors and regions.

• Supporting an open and transparent data infrastructure for local government
• Ensuring ethical open data use that is consistent across government in order to design better services around user needs
• Developing specialist data capability and data skills – promoting data literacy for individuals to make informed choices
• Developing a data and public sector toolkit to encourage local authorities to use open data

• Upholding the NHS digital, data and technology standards to framework to ensure that the health care system is more joined up, safer, and efficient
• Ensuring clinicians have safe and immediate access to relevant and appropriate patient data through connected systems
• Eliminating misinformation and misunderstanding through collaboration
• Designing a data infrastructure around the needs of patients and their care networks, as well as protecting citizen data rights

• Working with local authorities during a pandemic to create a national local land charges service
• Centralising data onto one single digital spatial register, allowing for a quicker and more efficient system
• Working as part of the wider government ambitions of improving the home buying process
• HM Land Registry’s digital transformation – accelerating our thinking

• Ensuring that digital identity is a collaborative project across government departments to solve problems such as connected data and user journeys
• Establishing a robust digital identity system that supports government in order to provide access to critical services
• Keeping the system secure from identity crime and fraud