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The DIGIT Lab Newsletter

DIGIT Lab's monthly newsletter provides regular updates of DIGIT Lab wide activities, upcoming events and successes of our researchers. The DIGIT Lab is an EPSRC Next Stage Digital Economy Research Centre delivering a 5-year research programme backed by £12.4M in funding.

In this month's edition of the DIGIT Lab Newsletter we will introduce you to the new edition to the DIGIT Lab Researchers, fill you in on this month's newsletter highlight and provide an activity newsfeed of on demand recordings and details of DIGIT Lab's recent engagements.

Meet the Researchers

In this month's edition of the DIGIT Lab newsletter we introduce the new edition to the DIGIT Lab Researchers, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jonathan Bird. Visit the DIGIT Lab website to read Jonathan Bird's edition of the staff profile series, which provides an overview of his current role, research areas and collaborations.

The DIGIT Lab Researchers now include:

• Dimitrios Batolas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter

• Phil Godsiff, Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter

• Nikolai Kazantsev, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Exeter

• Cristian Gherhes, Research Fellow, Oxford Brookes University

• Zena Wood, Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter

• Jonathan Bird, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter

Visit the ‘About us’ page on our website to find out more about these members of the DIGIT Lab team.

This Month's Highlight

This month's highlight is the upcoming Digital Leaders 4th Public Sector Innovation Conference.

DIGIT Lab team member Mark Thompson will Chair the conference and DIGIT Lab Director Alan Brown will be a panel member. The conference will be held on the 8th of March 2022, read the following event summary and continue reading on our website, to find out more:

Event Summary

"The pandemic has impacted public sector services massively. Positively, it has accelerated digital transformation across central and local government as well as the NHS and blue light services. This rapid move towards digital first has seen rapid growth in the use of Cloud and APIs as well as highlighting areas where improvements are needed.

This year’s 4th Public Sector Innovation Conference we will be looking at the fundamentals of the next stage of this rapid digital adoption in the public sector covering: interoperability; platforms; data; and emerging technologies as four areas that can transform public services."

Activity Newsfeed

Details of DIGIT Lab's engagement events are available on demand and include:

• Our next conference (4th & 5th May 22)

  • Tommy Flowers Network: Virtual Conference: Digital Transformation

• Jersey Evening Post article written on behalf of Digital Jersey by Director Alan Brown (29th December 21)

  • The next step in Jersey’s digital transformation

• Delivering Digital Transformation, John Bessant interview - Alan Brown (10th December)

  • Delivering digital transformation (johnbessant.org)

• Contribution to the report on the 'Challenges in implementing digital change', published by the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee. - Mark Thompson (10th December)

  • DIGIT Lab team member, Mark Thompson, contributed to Public Accounts Committee Report – The DIGIT Lab

• European Network Fund 2021-22

  • European Network Fund – The DIGIT Lab

• Circular Revolution 2021 - Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen(20th October)

  • Circular Revolution 2021, Driving the Transition to a Circular Economy in Wales – The DIGIT Lab

• Government Information Quarterly Publication

  • Platform, or technology project? a spectrum of six strategic ‘plays’ from UK government IT initiatives and their implications for policy. Thompson M, Venters W (2021).

• The Great Public Sector Digital Transformation Debate, ExCel London - Mark Thompson (7th October):

  • The Great Public Sector Digital Transformation Debate, ExCel London – The DIGIT Lab

• The Digital Jersey Event (29/30th September)

  • Helping to build Digital Jersey – The DIGIT Lab

• The DIGIT Lab Launch (21st September):

  • The DIGIT Lab Launch, 21st September – The DIGIT Lab

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