People and Skills workshop
Addressing challenges shared by digital leaders around the world
This workshop helped participants to tackle some of the key challenges identified in our research, and fostered the development of relationships, networks and projects to hasten progress over future years. We used the information gathered – including a survey of participants’ views, and their comments during the 90-minute discussion – within our second Digital Leaders report.
People and skills
Wednesday 27 April 2022 (Online)
Over the last decade, many governments have created central digital teams to drive progress and support departments. And, offering good training, flexible working and a sense of purpose, they have built large workforces of junior digital professionals within line departments.
The development of in-house digital delivery teams has helped governments to shift away from the discredited model under which civil servants defined the IT system they required, then commissioned a big IT firm to build it – an approach that failed to reliably produce workable IT systems.
To improve governments’ digital delivery capabilities, however, further action is required to build career pathways, strengthen skills and boost capacity. This workshop explored the development of cross-government digital and data professions, discussing the structures, systems and powers required to introduce coherent workforce management.
Agenda
Introduction and welcome
11:30 UTC
Facilitated by Matt Ross, Kevin Cunnington will welcome participants and brief them on the Global Digital Leaders Study, specifically the findings on People and Skills
[30 minutes]
Presentations and discussions
12:00 UTC
Evangeline Chua, Chief People Officer from GovTech, Singapore, Thomas Beautyman, Deputy Director of Government Digital Capability, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom and Yousef Tuqan, Skills Transformation Consultant, Coursera will each present, followed by group discussion
[90 minutes]
Conclusions and summary
13:30 UTC
Summary, thanks and next steps
[15 minutes]
Partner
Participants
Luxmore Edwards
Director of Information Technology, Ministry of Information, Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Information, Antigua and Barbuda
Daniel Knight
Director of e-Government, Ministry of Information, Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Information, Antigua and Barbuda
Guido Picus
Program Lead, Futura Lab, Aruba
Reetha Parthiban
Senior Program Consultant, Public Health Agency, Canada
Yousef Tuqan
Skills Transformation Consultant, Coursera
Lana Belas
Project Management and Digital Society Development Service leader, Sector for Security and Coordination of Digital Society Development, Central State Office, Croatia
Alena Klímová
Coordinator of eGovernment Department, Ministrty of Interior, Czech Republic
Khedr Talaat
Financial Regulator, Egyptian Financial Regulatory Authority, Egypt
Gilles Tauzin
Head of Delegation for Digital Transformation, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Recovery, France
Matt Ross
Contributing Editor, Global Government Forum
Kevin Cunnington
Former Director General, Government Digital Service, United Kingdom and Advisor, Global Government Forum
Íris Huld Christersdóttir
Specialist in innovation, Ministry of Finance and economic affairs, Iceland
Vinay Thakur
Chief Operating Officer, National e-Governance Division, India
Rajendra Kumar
Additional Secretary of E-Governance Electronics and Information Technology, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, India
Éilis Mernagh
HR ICT Strategy Implementation Lead, Office of Government CIO, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Ireland
Marija Jankovic
Independent Adviser, Ministry of Public Administration, Digital Society and Media, Montenegro
Kendrick Lee
Director of National Digital Identity (Singpass) programme, Government Technology Agency of Singapore (govtech), Singapore
Evangeline Chua
Chief People Officer, GovTech, Singapore
Monsak Socharoentum
Director of Data Innovation & Government, Institute Digital Government Development Agency,Thailand
Thomas beautyman
Deputy Director of Government Digital Capability, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
Sara Vincent
Head of Design Strategy, Home Office, United Kingdom
Rhiannon Lawson
Head of Standards, Centre Public Digital Services, Wales