- New framework launched to ensure that government can harness
the benefits of AI to make project delivery more efficient.
- The government project delivery profession will be empowered
to experiment with AI to solve major challenges.
- Upskilling project delivery professionals in AI and data
analytics will tackle issues like overspend and
delays.
The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) has today
published a new framework which sets out how AI will be harnessed
to boost productivity in public project delivery.
The framework enables civil servants working on over £805bn of
public projects to utilise AI to improve the effectiveness and
efficiency of their delivery.
The guidance encourages responsible experimentation with AI to
find solutions to the biggest challenges in public projects.
The IPA will work with cross-government AI leaders to oversee a
series of innovative pilots. The most successful experiments
will have the potential to be rolled out to optimise performance.
Under the new framework, the upskilling of project delivery
professionals in data analytics and AI will also be accelerated
to help tackle issues like overspend and delays.
The publication of the framework follows Deputy Prime Minister
Oliver Dowden’s speech on ‘AI for Public Good’, which set out the
government’s commitment to using AI to revolutionise public
services, boost productivity and save taxpayers money.
The report also recommends that barriers to sharing data are
removed where appropriate, by developing common standards,
infrastructure and processes, so that the potential of new
technology can be realised.
Cabinet Office Minister of State, , said:
The innovation we are seeing in data analytics and AI has the
potential to significantly benefit government project delivery
and, even more important, to save the taxpayer money.
As a former business executive I am delighted that our new
framework sets out our determination to explore the possibilities
further through collaboration, upskilling and experimentation.
The importance of greater collaboration between government and
its partners, to create the right conditions for innovation to
thrive is also highlighted in the new framework.
Karina Singh, Director of Function, Insights & Profession at
the IPA said:
The use of advancing technologies, especially AI, is a topic of
broad and current interest.
This paper cuts through the noise to provide a framework of
actions we can use to experiment with and upskill project
delivery professionals to get the most out of this fast-moving
development.
