Ian Marchant’s Blog

Should Government go digital

Wearing my 2020 hat I met IBM recently to discuss how the digital revolution is affecting public services. Their central thesis was that the agenda of most governments, at most levels, is on three things: cost efficiency. Austerity and value for money are hitting almost every country to varying degrees and the bigger the pressure, the greater the need for innovation in the provision of public services. transforming services. As digital revolutionises the customer experience …

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A blog on bogs

In my role as Chairman of the 2020 group I attended a dinner on peat. Not normally the subject of meal time conversation, I know, but a vital and largely unknown topic. Peatlands are one of the world’s greatest natural stores of carbon but in the past man’s activities have generally caused this landscape to degrade substantially. The UK, and Scotland in particular, has a lot of peatland with an estimated three million hectares or …

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