How government and industry can team up to make the technology safer without hindering innovation

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How government and industry can team up to make the technology safer without hindering innovation

Imagine a not-too-distant future where you let an intelligent robot manage your finances. It knows everything about you. It follows your moves, analyzes markets, adapts to your goals and invests faster and smarter than you can. Your investments soar. But then one day, you wake up to a nightmare: Your savings have been transferred to a rogue state, and they're gone.

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AI, innovation should be top budget priorities

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is due to present his revised Budget Speech in a few days. At Sage, we hope his new Budget Speech and government policy go beyond the usual and focuses on digital technologies and the opportunities that artificial intelligence (AI) presents for the South African economy, writes Pieter Bensch, MD and executive vice-president of Sage Africa & Middle East. In his State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Cyril …

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At the Paris AI Action Summit, the French government presented its strategy for the dissemination of AI in the public sector.

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Government reveals plan to overhaul digital funding models

Following a review that found the existing singular process for providing investment causes delays and inefficiencies, government will trial a quartet of mechanisms for staged, portfolio and risk-based funding methods Government has unveiled plans to revamp the funding models used to support the delivery of digital projects and replace existing mechanisms that are “overly complex… [and are] delaying decision-making and service delivery”. Shortly…

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Government announces new digital funding to drive innovation and efficiency

The UK government hopes to improve innovation and public services by announcing its plans to change how digital projects and AI experiments are funded in the public sector These changes will make it easier for new technologies to be tested and scaled, ultimately delivering better services to citizens and more value for taxpayers’ money. Ensuring the best of new technologies The recent review found that the current funding processes for digital p…

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Review calls for "significant shift" on Treasury IT spending

The UK government has said it will take a “start up mindset” with a “test and learn” approach to new technology and digital transformation funding after a review said a new approach was needed to ensure the success of spending on new digital services. Following a digital spend "Performance Review” HM Treasury (HMT) and the Government Digital Service (GDS) said they will adopt four new funding models to “deliver value for money for the taxpayer”.…