Facilities Management
Digital realities in fire safety
Aisha Farooq, from the FPA, takes a look at how virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies are changing the fire safety landscape.
Procurement
The Procurement Act: A CCS guide
The Procurement Act 2023: a CCS guide to implementing open frameworks
With the Procurement Act’s implementation just around the corner, Crown Commercial Service tells you what you need to know.
Technology
Connected places: are they far, far away?
Carol Williams, Socitm president sets out what a connected place is and how they are already in action.
Ensuring public sector safety in the digital age
Chris Dimitriadis, chief global strategy officer at ISACA looks at how public sector organisations can protect themselves.
Technology
Overcoming public scepticism in tech in public services
Heather Cover-Kus, head of central Government at techUK, looks at how to win the public’s trust, with contributions from Tess Buckley, programme manager for digital ethics and AI safety at techUK.
Technology
How Trefi Smart Towns Cymru is future-proofing high streets
Kiki Rees-Stavros, project manager at Trefi Smart Towns Cymru, explores how the programme is helping to elevate the country’s high streets.
Technology
Embracing digital transformation: public sector trends for 2024
Mark Lumley, director of ICT and digital at the London Borough of Hounslow and president of Socitm 2023-24 looks at what to expect going forward.
Grasping the innovation opportunity in public services
Georgina Maratheftis, associate director for local public services at techUK, looks at the processes local public services should follow to innovate.
Technology
AI and misinformation
Professor Harith Alani, director of the Knowledge Management Institute at the Open University explains how AI can be used for good and bad.
The ABCs of cybersecurity
The government-backed Cyber Essentials certification scheme is based around five key technical controls that organisations should aspire to.

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