Quite by chance I stumbled across the twitter coverage of a UK Authority event entitled “Return of the Bots” yesterday. There were a range of speakers it seems, from public and private sectors. An interesting element was the snippets about the increasing use of process automation by the UK Government.
Here’s some of the tweets I ‘favourited’ for further investigation (below). I hadn’t quite appreciated where government had got to. It would be interesting to look into the rationale both central and local government are using for RPA – I assume it is cost-driven(?). I hope to follow up some of this…
Chris Hall @cabinetofficeuk – Over 10k robots now at work in 57+ processes @HMRCgovuk#ReturnOfTheBots pic.twitter.com/jRHvbZtzcG
— Helen Olsen Bedford (@helenolsen) November 14, 2017
“Within 3-5 yrs robotics will be commonplace in government” https://t.co/u8YiQLX7Ae
— Helen Olsen Bedford (@helenolsen) November 14, 2017
@cabinetofficeuk & @CapgeminiConsul partnership aims to take 1-2 years off time for UK #publicsector to adopt #robotics process automation https://t.co/OFVOsGNTlL #ReturnoftheBots pic.twitter.com/TcpnGJKacK
— UKAuthority (@UKAuthority) November 15, 2017
What’s the potential of #RPA in government? #ReturnOfTheBots pic.twitter.com/mFip6tbkTf
— Marcus Ferbrache (@marcusferbrache) November 14, 2017
Highlight 1. Prof Birgitte Andersen @BigInnovCentre suggests we should be thinking about ‘the new rules, norms and standards for delivering public services with regards to AI’ #AI #returnofthebots @UKAuthority pic.twitter.com/E8njgSa5aS
— Jon Robertson (@JonSRobertson) November 14, 2017