Katie Davis, Identity and Passport Service

[Dave Birch] Given the importance of the U.K.'s national identity card plans in the world of digital identity here, it's important to have clear understanding of where the U.K. is and where it is going. I wanted to find out from the IPS, not from newspaper comment. Hence this discussion with Katie Davis. Katie joined IPS as the Executive Director of Strategy in June 2007. Prior to this, she was the Director of the Government IT Profession at the Cabinet Office. In this role, she worked as part of the Delivery and Transformation Group (formerly e-Government Unit) to increase the capacity and capability of government to deliver large-scale IT-enabled change. She had responsibility for formalising the IT Profession across central and local government, with the aim of providing IT professionals with the opportunity to reach the highest levels of public service. She also had responsibility for managing the Delivery and Transformation Group’s role in mission-critical projects. In this podcast she explains the goals of the IPS and explains where the programme is right now.

ID cards, podcast

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