🛩️ New post! ArriveCan and the contractor conundrum 🛩️

The AG report says “relying on external resources” contributed to ArriveCan’s mismanagement. I think we rely on external resources to get around our onerous IT processes.

Let's adapt, not retrench.

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How can public #BeneficialOwnership data help us identify 'red flags'?

This blog post outlines one of the key benefits of improving the quality of beneficial ownership data: bulk analysis to find patterns or “red flags”.

#BeneficialOwnership #transparency #AML #FollowTheMoney

Giving away for free today: my best ever idea for a Bristol-based musically-themed social enterprise community cafe, called 'The Wild Brunch', taking inspiration from Massive Attack Robert Del Naja Tricky, and many others.

Excellent post by Liam Maxwell, worth digging into->
The top 5 challenges of public service transformation - aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicse…

Access to data helps us to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing society today. Find out how our participatory data work, in partnership with the aaptiinstitute is building solutions that enhance societal impact, justice and equity hubs.li/Q02d3SHk0

Have a read of this blog produced by Citoyen Dangersmith and David Kershaw - Co-Founder at Curshaw Commercial on procuring AI sensibly for public service delivery.

Centre for Digital Public Services #Procurement #PublicSector

Artificial Intelligence development is moving fast!

Since last month’s webinar ‘Procuring AI in the Public Sector’, speakers Warren Smith and David Kershaw - Co-Founder at Curshaw Commercial have produced a blog for CydCymru on how to sensibly procure AI for public service delivery: cyd.cymru/procuring-arti…

In this blog post we reveal the aftermath of a decade of capital underinvestment as discussed in the Institute for Government's 2023 Performance Tracker.

Take a look here: curshaw.com/curshaw-insigh…

#InfrastructureReport #CurshawInsights

Next week The Alan Turing Institute will be joining us for a webinar on 'Managing Bias within Artificial Intelligence' as part of our AI series in partnership with Welsh Government

Are you interested?

Find out more on our website: digitalpublicservices.gov.wales/cyrsiau-digwyd…

CASE STUDY 📝 | Policing the public purse – Ensuring value for money and flexibility in procuring initial officer training across Wales.

It was a team effort across four forces – this is how they did it, on time and with savings 👇🏻

cyd.cymru/cyd_casestudy/…

PPP (PFI) in Canada.

Looking forward to catching up with friends and meeting new people at this years CCPPP 2023 Conference in Toronto.

Thank you to The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships for inviting the ⁦⁦Curshaw Commercial⁩
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Join Warren's talk today at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2023 in Barcelona!

Learn how leaders around the world are using their procurement power to spark new solutions which deliver new citizen experiences, optimise service delivery & realise net zero ambitions.

#SCEWC23

Great to see this event happening. Good on you Centre for Digital Public Services - networking, sharing, transferring knowledge and making public services better and more accessible for all.

Cardiff bound for #ProcurexWales2023 Procurex with the Curshaw Commercial. Looking forward to hearing from the speakers but more importantly from market providers who often have no voice in public sector commercial planning and development. #Markets #Wales #WelshEconomy #FutureGen

. Citoyen Dangersmith, Partner yn @Curshawteam Commercial, yn rhoi cipolwg ar daith CydCymru hyd yn hyn, beth sydd i ddod, a sut y gall sector cyhoeddus Cymru gymryd rhan i lunio ei ddyfodol.

How a collaboration between Open Ownership and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) will promote greater transparency in corporate ownership and control in support of a more secure financial landscape (by me for GLEIF)

gleif.org/en/newsroom/bl…

#beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata

Rydyn ni wedi cyrraedd Y RHESTR FER! 🎉🙌🏼🍾

Rydym yn falch o gyhoeddi bod Cyd wedi cyrraedd y rhestr fer ar gyfer Gwobr Menter Gaffael yn #GOAwards Cymru eleni.

Da iawn i bawb sy'n cymryd rhan! Edrychwn ymlaen at eich gweld yn y seremoni 📆

In August 2023 WLGA took an innovative and radical step, stripping out the procurement content from the new-look WLGA website.

WHAT?! WHY?! 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏽

Read Richard Dooner’s blog here to find out more…

🔗 cyd.cymru/adding-value-t…

Science, Tech, & Innovation policies in Europe have embraced missions to direct action towards tackling grand challenges.

Read the new working paper by Rainer Kattel & Mariana Mazzucato arguing for the development of necessary capabilities to deliver on them➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

David Kershaw of Curshaw Commercial: it's not procurement law that's limiting #innovation #agile , it's procurement folklore ODI #publicprocurement #digitaltransformation