As part of the UK government ‘Technology Innovation Strategy,’ the government has also launched Spark, a marketplace for technology innovation which sets out a new unified approach to digitisation in the public sector. It is a dynamic purchasing system that will allow the public sector to find and buy innovative solutions using emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, IoT and security, to transform services within the public sector.
“Spark will help enable growth in the UK technology sector, making it easier for SMEs to access government customers and improve the ease and speed at which government can access proven new technology … Rather than being locked into huge monolithic IT contracts, now the government can move faster and capitalise on the opportunities presented by new and emerging technologies … We know that government is struggling to break free from its existing legacy systems, but what should be a priority is designing with a platform approach in mind from the outset,” says diginomica.