The Infrastructure and Projects Authority- IPA in the UK has gone on to publish a new framework that sets out how AI is going to be harnessed in order to boost productivity in public project delivery.
The framework goes on to help the civil servants working on more than £805 billion of public projects in order to utilize AI to enhance effectiveness and efficiency when it comes to their delivery.
It is well to be noted that the guidance goes on to encourage responsible experimentation with AI so as to find solutions to the biggest issues when it comes to public projects.
Apparently, the IPA is going to work with cross-government AI leaders in order to oversee a series of innovative pilots, and the most successful experiments will happen to have the potential to be rolled out so as to optimize performance.
Under the novel framework, the upskilling of project delivery professionals within data analytics as well as AI will also be accelerated in order to help tackle issues such as overspends and delays.
The publication of this framework follows Oliver Dowden, the Deputy Prime Minister’s speech on AI for Public Good, which set out the government’s commitment in terms of using AI so as to revolutionize public services, boost productivity, and save taxpayers money.
The report also goes on to recommend that barriers to sharing the data be eradicated, where appropriate, by way of developing common standards, infrastructure, and processes, so that potential when it comes to new technology can be realized.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe, the Cabinet Office Minister of State, said that the innovation they are witnessing in data analytics as well as AI happens to have the potential to prominently benefit government project delivery and, even more importantly, to go ahead and save taxpayer money.
She added that, as a former business executive, she is indeed delighted that their new framework goes on to set out their determination so as to explore the possibilities further by way of collaboration, upskilling, and experimentation. The significance of greater collaboration when it comes to the government and its partners, so as to create the right conditions in terms of innovation to thrive, is also underscored in the new framework. The Director of Function, Insights, and Profession at the IPA, Karina Singh, went on to say that the use of advancing technologies, specifically AI, happens to be a topic of broad and present interest.
This paper goes ahead and cuts through the noise so as to provide a framework of actions they can make use of to experiment with as well as upskill the project delivery professionals in order to get the most out of such fast-moving development.
