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Common European Data Spaces and Robust AI for Transparent Public Governance

Common European Data Spaces and Robust AI for Transparent Public Governance

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CEDAR’s mission is to create high-value datasets to enhance and combine the existing CEDS and develop solutions for a more transparent public governance in Europe. CEDAR is a 36-month Horizon Europe-funded project, started in January 2024, that involves 31 partners with interdisciplinary knowledge and whose key goal is to promote transparent and accountable public governance in Europe. By sharing high-quality datasets, developing secure connectors for European data repositories, and employing innovative technologies for efficient big data management and analysis, CEDAR aims to promote better, evidence-based decision-making, combat corruption, and reduce fraud in public administration. What the CEDAR project will do CEDAR will identify, collect, fuse, harmonise, protect, and share new high-quality datasets. This will involve digitising data from public administration archives and generating synthetic data to improve real-world data quality. The project also aims to harmonise and standardise different public and private data sources into new unified datasets. Furthermore, it seeks to enable fair and secure data access to these datasets and integrate them with Common European Data Spaces available in Europe. CEDAR will develop …

Trusts want governance split from leadership scores

Trusts want governance split from leadership scores

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More from this theme Recent articles An influential group of trusts is urging Ofsted to split governance from its leadership judgment, saying the current system is masking sector-wide weaknesses. The Queen Street Group’s annual report, published today, said “many” CEOs in its network of 35 trusts believe “governance across the system is not consistently strong enough to bear the demands placed upon it”. Inspectors’ decisions on a school’s governance are rolled into their ‘leadership and management’ sub-judgement. But QSG members believe the two should be split.  “Weak governance is often carried by leaders,” the report said. “This problem is masked by incorporating governance within the judgement on leadership, so these need to be separated.”  This comes after Ofsted scrapped single-phrase headline grades for a school’s overall effectiveness earlier this month.  Until new report cards take effect next September, schools will continue to be rated from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’ for the four sub-judgments, including ‘leadership and management’.  Recruitment might not keep up with improvement Steve Taylor OSG chair Steve Taylor said CEOs “were reflecting that when a …

Hamas and Fatah sign 'Beijing declaration' for a joint post-war governance of Gaza

Hamas and Fatah sign 'Beijing declaration' for a joint post-war governance of Gaza

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Hamas announced Tuesday it had signed an agreement in Beijing with other Palestinian organisations, including rivals Fatah, to work together for “national unity” and govern Gaza jointly after the end of the conflict with Israel. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who hosted the Palestinian groups, said they had agreed to set up an “interim national reconciliation government” to oversee post-war Gaza. Source link

Portugal leave it late and the future of football governance with Sir Keir Starmer – Football Daily | Football

Portugal leave it late and the future of football governance with Sir Keir Starmer – Football Daily | Football

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Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today; game of the tournament in Dortmund as Turkey took on Georgia. Brilliant goals and brilliant performances from both sides – are Turkey, finally, actually the dark horses? Elsewhere Portugal left it very late to beat Czechia who had done so well to soak up the pressure but two substitutes combined to win it. Plus, an interview with the Labour leader Keir Starmer – we talk about the regulator, nation state ownership, Manchester City’s legal claims against the Premier League and the impact of kick-off times on match-going fans. Support The Guardian here. You can now also find Football Weekly on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/UEFA/Getty Images Support The Guardian The Guardian is editorially independent. And we want to keep our journalism open and accessible to all. But we increasingly need our readers to fund our work. Support The Guardian //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js//www.instagram.com/embed.js//www.tiktok.com/embed.js Source link

CPD, governance and recruitment: DfE’s cost-cutting spree

CPD, governance and recruitment: DfE’s cost-cutting spree

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More from this theme Recent articles The Department for Education’s cutting spree has continued this week – so here’s the comprehensive list of the axed schemes that we know about so far… Now Teach Recruitment programme to persuade and support high-flying professionals to change career and retrain as a teacher Contract: £4.4 million over three years up to 2024 When does it run out? Contract will not be retendered for 2025 Potential annual saving: Around £1.4m Impact: Supported more than 1,000 career changers into the profession since 2016 Free NPQs Part of the Covid recovery premium, schools were given funding for 150,000 national professional qualifications for staff Contract: £184 million available over three years to 2024 When does it run out? From Autumn, only staff in the top half of schools with the most youngsters on pupil premium will be eligible for funded NPQs. The NPQ for heads, SENCOs and leading primary maths will be free. But there will be a cap of 10,000 courses Potential annual saving: Given the few details about the new …

Solving enterprise AI governance with a data-centric approach

Solving enterprise AI governance with a data-centric approach

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Eamonn O’Neill, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Lemongrass, discusses the challenges businesses face in securing and governing generative AI tools, proposing a strategy that integrates existing data governance policies. The approach that many businesses have taken to securing GenAI tools and services – and the data that powers them – has been a mess. Some organisations have become so wary of exposing sensitive information to GenAI services like ChatGPT that they block them altogether on their corporate networks – which is generally a kneejerk and ineffectual approach. Employees who want to use these services can easily access them in other ways, such as via their personal communications devices. In other cases, businesses have attempted to shape AI security and governance strategies around regulatory requirements. Because there has been minimal global regulatory guidance on GenAI to date, the result is often chaotic, ever-shifting AI governance policies that may or may not align with the mandates regulators eventually settle on. Here’s a better approach: use existing data security and governance policies as the foundation for managing …

How a new model of governance could empower small councils | Local government

How a new model of governance could empower small councils | Local government

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Your editorial on local government (Editorial, 14 April) concludes by pointing up the tension between the economic benefits of scale claimed by proponents of large councils and the community benefits of small councils closer to those they represent and serve. After a lifetime career as an officer in local government, and having chaired two commissions overseeing council finances and electoral boundaries, I have come to wonder if the answer is to separate the council (ie those elected to represent their constituents) from the organisation that is responsible for delivering local services to people and communities (ie the council employees). The present system treats these as one and the same, but their functions are different. I believe it would be possible to create a different relationship, whereby the elected, political body effectively commissioned services from the delivery organisation, run entirely on managerial lines. This would sever the current one-to-one relationship between them and allow a number of elected councils to be served by one delivery agency, holding out the prospect of achieving the economic benefits of larger operational scale …

Pioneering policy leadership in a transformative era – POLITICO

Pioneering policy leadership in a transformative era – POLITICO

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With the European Parliament and U.S. elections looming, Europe is facing policy uncertainties on both sides of the Atlantic. Persistent geopolitical turmoil in Ukraine and the Middle East, and threats to democracy — coupled with concerns over slow economic recovery, demographic shifts, climate hazards and the rapid evolution of powerful AI — all add to the complex global political and economic landscape. Europe’s present and future demands leaders who are capable of effectively navigating multifaceted challenges. At the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, we are committed to developing a groundbreaking executive program that prepares professionals for multilevel policymaking of the 21st century. Our new EUI Global Executive Master (GEM) aims to transform policy professionals into agents of change and enhance their skills as effective managers and leaders who inspire and drive sustainable change. Listening and responding to the needs of policy professionals is at the core of our new program. New leaders wanted George Papaconstantinou is dean of executive education of the European University Institute, and a former Minister of Finance and Minister of …

Top EU college terminates professor’s contract over sexual harassment claims – POLITICO

Top EU college terminates professor’s contract over sexual harassment claims – POLITICO

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“With this email, I would like to inform you that the contractual relation between the College of Europe and Prof. Olivier Costa has been terminated today,” Federica Mogherini, the rector of the College of Europe and a former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, wrote to staff and students on Wednesday in an email seen by POLITICO. In her email, Mogherini did not specify the reason for Costa’s termination.  When contacted by POLITICO, Costa, now the former director of the department of European political and governance studies, declined to comment.  A College of Europe committee decided in February the professor could not continue his roles at the Bruges campus after he was found to be in violation of the university’s code of conduct by sexually harassing a current student. It was then up to Mogherini to act on the committee’s ruling. When reached by POLITICO for comment, Mogherini said: “Sorry, we cannot comment as we are bound to confidentiality and [General Data Protection Regulations].” In February, POLITICO spoke to more than 20 current …

Ministers axe Inspiring Governance scheme

Ministers axe Inspiring Governance scheme

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Ministers ‘taking governors for granted’ as ‘final piece’ of governance funding axed Ministers ‘taking governors for granted’ as ‘final piece’ of governance funding axed More from this theme Recent articles Government has pulled the plug on a governor recruitment scheme – despite record-high vacancies – in a move branded “nothing short of a disgrace”. The National Governance Association said ditching the last remaining government-funded governance scheme means boards are now “left entirely to their own devices, with past support for governance recruitment, development, and training now all removed”. Inspiring Governance has helped recruit 8,000 school governors and trustees since it launched with Department for Education funding back in 2016. Despite this, an NGA survey in 2022 found two-thirds of school or trust governing boards had at least one vacancy as the number of empty posts hit a six-year high. But government will end funding for Inspiring Governance in September. Emma Balchin, NGA co-chief executive, said: “The decision to abandon funding for school governance is deeply concerning and sets a troubling precedent for the future.” In …