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Gaming in the metaverse: online safety in another dimension
The metaverse is more than just a tech buzzword, it will likely have an impact on the way we socialise, play, work, and learn.
In June we launched our brand new GovStart programme - taking on a cohort of 34 startups across a number of different sectors. This week we delve into the solutions of our 7 climate startups.
Public Sector APIs and GovTech: 6 International Best Practices in API Management to Spark Better Collaboration
The UK’s public sector has been systematically fostering APIs for several years now. Yet, it is worth shedding light on international API best practices from other countries, in order to understand how APIs might further be leveraged to support innovation.
Meet our Justice, Transport & Education GovStart cohort
This month we kicked off our brand new GovStart programme - taking on a cohort of 34 startups across a number of different sectors. This week we delve into the solutions of our 4 Justice, Transport & Education startups spanning areas such as illicit trade prevention, employment training and transport management.
GovTech Goes Global: Celebrating the In-Person Return of The GovTech Summit 2022
The GovTech Summit announces its return to a physical event this November 1st in partnership with The Hague for its fifth year anniversary special edition, with a mission to drive collective action toward sustaining the momentum of digital acceleration in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Meet our Privacy, Security and Online Safety GovStart cohort
This month we kicked off our brand new GovStart programme - taking on a cohort of 34 startups across a number of different sectors. In this blog post we delve into the solutions of our 7 Privacy, Security and Online Safety startups spanning areas such as Disinformation detection, AI auditing and identity verification.
AWS Defence Accelerator Spotlight: Rethinking Resilience in Cyber Warfare
In this blog post, we outline our response to the question posed in the AWS Defence Accelerator challenge area looking at how we can make defence more resilient to cyber threats and ensure its ability to deliver on mission demands. It will refer to the National Cyber Strategy 2022 and encourage startups in cyber to apply to the programme.
AWS Defence Accelerator Spotlight: Transforming Defence Towards a Greener Future
UK defence accounts for 50% of central government’s emissions, an enormous figure, but one that makes sense when you consider the human, infrastructural, and geographic footprint of the Ministry of Defence.
Tackling Child Safety with Technology: What we know & hope to achieve
As part of our advisory work in online safety, PUBLIC is delivering a range of projects to improve child safety online. This blog outlines our view of the landscape, its challenges and potential solutions, through a Safety Tech lens.
How To Overcome Barriers Faced by SMEs in Public Procurement
This article by Nicola Villa, Executive Vice President, Strategic Growth at Mastercard outlines why supporting SME procurement is so important, and highlights some key takeaways from the Global SME Procurement Benchmark report!
Procurement Bites: How can public authorities better collaborate on procurement?
In the second article in our series on procurement, we look at the topic of collaboration in procurement, and outline how technology and tools can help to make collaboration easier.
A Safer Future: Enhancing Citizens’ Trust in a Digital World
As the digital lives of citizens become richer and more complex, forward-looking governments are navigating the challenges of protecting their citizens in the digital world by making the internet safer, making data more private and making networks more secure. PUBLIC is deeply invested in this mission, and supports the UK and international public sector across these areas through its Privacy, Security and Online Safety team.
Better collaboration, bigger impact: How data-sharing accelerates innovation
Collaboration and information sharing across UK government can achieve meaningful transformation and improved services for citizens. This blog explores the Shared Outcomes Fund's role in accelerating this effort and encouraging closer collaboration between government departments
Finalising Our Research with Nominet: The Opportunities We Identified
Nominet and PUBLIC partnered to research and tackle key illegal online harms faced by young people when using the internet. This blogpost provides a final update on the research, focusing on systemic opportunities, and outlines next steps for interested stakeholders.
Strategic Interventions to Counter and Curb the Spread of Disinformation
The long-term societal impacts of false narratives propagated by foreign adversaries has yet to be completely understood and quantified, but now is an important moment to consider counter-disinformation interventions.
Modern threats demand novel solutions: Are startups poised to help meet the moment?
Defence today is one of the largest markets in the world. Yet, at a time where startup innovation is seen everywhere from digital health to online safety, defence engagement with the startup ecosystem remains behind.
Disinformation has been a long standing phenomena of war, but the modern tools used to create & disseminate false narratives have transformed its ease of creation, speed of spread, and range of audiences.
A New Community Platform for GovTech Innovators: GovStart 2.0
Bringing together the startup ecosystem through our new and more accessible GovStart offer marks another important step forward for public sector transformation.
Upskill to innovate: How a focus on personnel keeps defence on the front-foot
To meet unforeseen threats with agile solutions, maintaining a digitally-literate workforce is essential in modern defence, but can we achieve this through training and culture alone?
Shoring up Local Councils for a Cyber-Resilient Future
PUBLIC, together with Daintta, is arming local councils with the learning tools they need to improve supply chain resilience and protect themselves against a growing number of cyber security threats.
From Livestreaming to Education: Finding Priority Areas to Tackle Illegal Online Harms
In the first part of PUBLIC’s work with Nominet, we identified the trends and developments of the illegal online harms that young people face. We compiled these trends based on reports from academics, government and the third sector before testing them via interviews with key people and organisations in the space.
The Return of Defence Disrupted: Innovation for a Safer Future
The world’s leading event for defence innovation and technology is back for its second annual edition, giving representatives a platform to connect and share knowledge about how to keep pace in their modern defence capability.
Making procurement greener and more sustainable: working on new guidance for global governments
With COP26 over, there has never been more interest in sustainability across the world - but nor has there probably been more frustration given all the lofty talk and little concrete action.
Is gamification the solution to sustainable behaviour change?
In this article, Jessica Taylor explains how governments can adopt methods of 'Gamification' to engage individuals, organisations and communities in sustainable behavioural change.