Digital Empowerment and Transformation

whitePaper | May 12, 2023

Onward’s mission is to develop bold and practical ideas to boost economic opportunity, build national resilience, and strengthen communities across all parts of the United Kingdom. Our vision is to address the needs of the whole country: young and old, urban and rural, for all communities across the UK – particularly places that have too often felt neglected or ignored by Westminster. We believe in an optimistic conservatism that is truly national – one that recognises the value of markets, supported by a streamlined state that is active not absent. We are unapologetic about standing up to vested interests, putting power closer to people, and supporting the hardworking and aspirational.

whitePaper | October 19, 2022

The present White Paper provides information to concerned stakeholders, including SMEs, Industry, Academia, Government Regulation Agencies and others, on the current implementation status of standards potentially suitable for ensuring compliance to the original draft of the AI Act, from an ETSI perspective. The overall set-up within ETSI is discussed and most relevant Technical Committees and Industry Specification Groups and related available deliverables and plans are identified.

whitePaper | October 20, 2022

Artificial intelligence has already started to have an impact on urban settings at an unprecedented pace, with sophisticated solutions being deployed in the streets, at airports and in other city installations. In fact, cities are becoming experimental sites for new forms of artificial intelligence and automation technologies that are applied across a wide variety of sectors and places.

whitePaper | March 30, 2022

This paper presents data from a large-scale study on how code quality impacts software companies in terms of time-to-market and product experience. We conclude with an analysis of the impact and specific recommendations towards successful software development.

whitePaper | December 6, 2019

Machine learning (ML)-driven personalization is fast expanding from social media to the wider information space, encompassing legacy media, multinational conglomerates and digital-native publishers: however, this is happening within a regulatory and oversight vacuum that needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency. Mass-scale adoption of personalization in communication has serious implications for human rights, societal resilience and political security. Data protection, privacy and wrongful discrimination, as well as freedom of opinion and of expression, are some of the areas impacted by this technological transformation.

whitePaper | June 30, 2022

Low code and no code (LCNC) development platforms expedite the creation of new applications with minimal or no coding requirements, as well as offer tools for non-programmers to create applications of their own. Low code development was introduced in the early 2000s to increase developer productivity. It uses a variety of approaches that automate and abstract application development activities, such as drag and drop editors, code generation, component assembly and model-driven development.