Data Challenge 2023: the semi-finals

Photo of Civil Service Data Challenge participants

The latest CDDO blog covers the infamous Civil Service Data Challenge, which is open to all Civil Servants regardless of department, role or grade, seeking  ideas on how government can better improve its use of data, with a prize of 50,000 and development support for the winning submission on offer.

How do you solve the Software Developer shortage across Government? Emerging talent!

a cohort of those on the Software Development Programme are pictured looking happy in a park.

The DDaT Profession Talent team at CDDO have been developing a variety of talent programmes to support departmental DDaT workforce pipelines across government, and we are now excited to announce the launch of our new Software Developer Graduate Scheme. The scheme signals a step change in how we diversify our graduate offer and directly addresses …