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The government needs to get the ethical framework and regulation of artificial intelligence right and invest in skills training if it wants to make the most of the technology, the Government Office for Science has said.

n today's digital era, governments across the globe are amassing larger amounts of data than ever before. Some of this is structured data such as census records, phone numbers, addresses, and any information that can easily be entered into a database or spreadsheet. And some of it is unstructured data, or harder-to-analyze information such as emails, documents, web pages, photos, and videos.

"The government wants to move towards a 'data culture' to make better spending decisions, says minister responsible for digital reform, Matt Hancock"

"Transparency of evidence: a spot check of government policy proposals July 2016 to July 2017. How transparent is government in sharing evidence behind policies?"

Today, AI is reality, thanks to big data analysis, exa-scale storage, and cloud technologies that complement AI algorithms with highly scalable methods to quickly access and analyze massive data sets. #ai

The GKIM Professional Skills Framework has been revised and was relaunched at the GKIM conference in April.

The world's biggest artificial intelligence companies, including Facebook and Google, have joined forces to mould the ethical rules that will govern how robots and computer programs behave in the future.

About time and welcome. I hope that those with experience of medical ethics are also involved. For two reasons; medicine is likely to be a major player and beneficiary of AI (eg personalised drugs) and medical ethics is a mature field that is used to responding to rapid innovation.

"Six to Start was given a six-figure budget from the Government to build the game after winning a competition to design an app to combat obesity."

"David Damberger discusses "Learning From Failure" at TEDxYYC 2011. David is the founder of Engineers Without Borders Calgary (EWB). After building the organization in Calgary and working with them in India, David spent four years building EWB's overseas programs as the Director of Southern African Programs. In this role, David consulted for dozens of African based companies, non-profits and governments in the fields of agriculture; food processing; water and sanitation; and mobile applications for development."

Social media is having an increasingly pervasive influence on both personal and professional life. But there is still widespread ignorance about the risks associated with using it. The Snowden revelations gave us the first insight into how our personal data is being "harvested" by both companies and governments, and not all of it for benign purposes. This (preliminary) declaration of digital human rights is something that perhaps we should all give serious consideration to supporting.

"The biggest problem that businesses -- and governments -- must solve is one that rarely comes up in a behavioral psych lab: how to get people's attention in a world filled with more distractions by the day."

" "These days, more than ever, size matters in the innovation game," said John Kao, a former professor at the Harvard business school and an innovation consultant to governments and corporations.In its economic recovery package, the Obama administration is financing programs to generate innovation with technology in health care and energy....."

Berners-Lee urges the adoption of more democratic services, including Facebook alternatives GnuSocial and Diaspora as well as the Status.net project, which gave rise to a decentralized incarnation of Twitter. "As has been the case since the Web began," he says, "continued grassroots innovation may be the best check and balance against any one company or government that tries to undermine universality."

Following Richard Wallis' presentation at the KIN Winter Workshop, here is a great example of how open linked data can add value, managed by LGID

"Advice to the Prime Minister on opportunities in robotics, automation and artificial intelligence for the UK."