Transforming the Digital Marketplace: Chris Skidmore speech
Minister Chris Skidmore spoke at the D5 summit of leading digital governments about the UK government's progress in digital public services.
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Thank you. Hello.
I am delighted to be in Busan this week to represent the UK at the D5 Ministerial Summit. This is my first visit to the Republic of Korea, a country with whom the United Kingdom has enjoyed a strong relationship for over 130 years.
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The UK government is proud to be recognised as one of the leaders in digital government. But in 2009 we told a different story. Our government IT spending was higher than that of many other countries, but far less efficient. So we have come a long way. But, as we know, the digital landscape shifts at an unprecedented rate and we cannot afford to be complacent.
We must continue to be alert to the opportunities that technology and the internet provide, and open to sharing and learning with other countries.
That is why the D5 was founded in 2014. It gives us the chance to learn and share with like minded colleagues and digital leaders across the world.
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When we set about reforming our services, we knew that users had to be at the heart of everything we do. And that is the first principle of our Digital Service Standard, a standard which has been replicated by governments both locally and internationally.
Putting users first means understanding exactly what people need from their interaction with government and then delivering it seamlessly.
It means creating common services across government, services like which improves procurement by opening up the public sector to small and medium enterprises. In the last few months, the total spend through Digital Marketplace has exceeded 拢1.5 billion.
Now, the barriers have been lowered for small businesses and innovative start-ups to sell digital services to government. This is a billion pound a year market, 52% of which is with small businesses. We are buying from the best, be they big or small. The determining factor is now, rightly, the technical excellence of a business, not how skilful they are at filling in a procurement form.
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We believe that by making things open, you make things better.
We share expertise worldwide through open source, open standards, open data and international collaboration.
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We release our open data sets through to enable people to build their own products and services. A number of apps based around health and transport, for example, have been built using open government data.
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And we collaborate and build networks, both at international summits like this, but also within our own government.
We have, for example, recently strengthened our Technology Leaders Network, to better support the needs of our users: in this case, the technology community.
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Leanna Jones, Learning and Development Lead at GDS will be leading a workshop to share more about what we have done, and intend to do in the future, to increase digital and technology capability cross government.
The new digital strategy will be published by the end of this year. It will lay out the ways in which we will continue to transform government together. And just last week, at the National Cyber Security Centre, we launched our cyber strategy, which received 拢1.9 billion of investment. It sets out ambitious policies to make the UK the safest place to live and do business online.
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Thank you.