The 2 Terabyte Challenge: Information transfer for an AI tool
...review digital records at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). AI, information and me At the end of 2024, I joined the IT Service Management team. I had recently...
...review digital records at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). AI, information and me At the end of 2024, I joined the IT Service Management team. I had recently...
...Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). We were fortunate to be able to receive coaching and support from Emily Webber and Rebecca Kemp over 2023 and 2024 to help us with...
Emma Taylor Vicki Woolgar In November 2024, 65 AI enthusiasts gathered for the Department for Business and Trade’s (DBT) first-ever AI conference in London. This marked a significant milestone in...
...policies and guidance information is now easier to find, and the number of HR team enquiries is reducing (22.4% less first level HR queries than Quarter 1 2024 due to...
...Computing Platform. We code in the open by default. All software we release to the public is under Open Government Licence or equivalent. Our developers work in multidisciplinary agile teams...
...released open-source code on which our own code depends. To benefit from community contributions, encourage reuse across government, and to work transparently in the public interest, we also publish our...
...re-inventing things other departments have already done. Redbox is a fantastic example of this. Through joint workshops, employee secondment, bi-weekly collaboration sessions and code-sharing with the I.AI team, DBT’s AI...
...or we weren’t sure whether their laptop needed to be replaced. Things which we couldn’t fix using code, we needed users to tell us. This meant that we couldn’t simply...
...from unstructured data, or even write code. Government departments routinely handle confidential and personal data. Therefore, using public AI tools that transmit data externally can post significant security and privacy...
...how we work – and ethics are central to that shift. What we're doing We’re making space for user researchers to focus on in-depth research, like ethnography (observing people in...