Transform Gov - the digital government podcast
Transform Gov, the digital government podcast, brings you top names behind many of the most exciting and transformative digital government projects globally.
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What Irish Rail's overruns can teach every public sector project team (opens the original)
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Could Irish Rail have saved the State €16.5 million, and got a working traffic management system, if its project had been managed differently? Today, guest James Louttit — Founder and Lead Trainer at Impactful Project Management — argues that successful projects come down to some surprisingly simple disciplines: focus on value, prioritise needs, make risk visible, force governance to make decisions, and adapt rather than blindly following a plan-for-plans-sake. So, could applying those principle
Public Sector phone use saving lives. Part 2 -Interview with Joseph Nugent, former CAO, An Garda Síochána (opens the original)
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Part II of a fascinating interview with former CAO of An Garda Síochána, Joseph Nugent. Joe tells us about his time working with Andrew O’Sullivan CIO, An Garda Síochána, and Commissioner Harris to empower An Garda using technology to save lives. · How digital transformation empowers all, not just the techies. · The importance of vendor selection, highlighting a small Bray, Ireland SME's success in designing Ireland’s digital passport. · Why personal involvement and cultural alignment are crucia
What would you do with 10,000 extra public servants? (opens the original)
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For decades, Ireland has built its economic identity on being a knowledge economy: highly skilled, highly educated, and a magnet for global investment. Agentic AI is about to test whether that advantage still holds. Most conversations about AI start with cost – how do we do more with less? Audrey O'Mahony, Accenture's Head of Talent Reinvention for UKIA, argues that's the wrong starting point entirely. Her question instead: what would you do with 10,000 extra employees? Thinking capacity instead
Ireland’s new government CIO wants to end the form-filling groundhog day's (opens the original)
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Ireland's Government CIO Louise McKeever returns for part 2 to talk about what it actually takes to join up government services around citizens. Louise takes us inside: 🔹 Digital building blocks — the reusable infrastructure (gov.ie, e-forms, payments, messaging, a digital wallet) that means departments don't have to rebuild the same systems 🔹 Leading without authority — how you coordinate a whole government's worth of independently governed departmental CIOs toward one shared goal 🔹 Data as a n
From CDs and Paper Files to AI and Drones: Inside An Garda Síochána’s Digital Transformation (opens the original)
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An Garda Síochána is replacing paper files, ageing technology and fragmented information with mobile devices, body-worn cameras, drones and carefully governed AI. But transforming one of Ireland’s largest and most complex public services is not simply a technology project. It means changing how thousands of Gardaí work — while protecting public trust, individual rights and the judgement of the officer on the ground. In this episode of Transform Gov, Maeve Kneafsey goes straight to the source: As
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