Cyber Action Plan for Wales – One year on

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It’s a year since we published the Cyber Action Plan for Wales which sets out our vision that Wales prospers through cyber resilience, talent and innovation.

The Plan has four priority areas to help us deliver our vision:

  • growing our cyber ecosystem;
  • building a pipeline of cyber talent;
  • strengthening our cyber resilience; and,  
  • protecting our public services.

You can find out more about why we’re focusing on these priorities on our previous blogs.

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Using Code to Automatically Style Charts for Publications

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Post by Joe & Aron, Data Science Unit, Welsh Government

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Welsh Government staff in the Knowledge and Analytical Services (KAS) spend many hours formatting their charts for publication, making sure font sizes are correct, colours follow the guidance and axes are labelled. The Data Science Unit has streamlined these processes by creating a code package written in R, known as “KASStylesR”. With KASStylesR, teams can produce publication-ready Welsh and English charts in a fraction of the time it would have taken before.

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Guest blog: Exploring the Potential of Digital Twins in the Welsh Government

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Post by Christopher, Ordnance Survey consultant working in the Welsh Government

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Digital twins could deliver £7bn in benefits to the UK economy by 2050, according to a recent Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) report.  The report also found that digital twins could reduce costs by up to 25%, improve productivity by up to 15%, and reduce emissions by up to 20%.

With this in mind, the Ordnance Survey is working with the Welsh Government over the next few months to explore if and how digital twins could support the Digital Strategy for Wales in underpinning policy areas and identify where they could add the most value.

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Celebrating the achievements of the Welsh Language Technology Action Plan (2018 – 2024)

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By Indeg, Cymraeg 2050 Team

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When we published the Welsh Language Technology Action Plan in 2018, our aim was to create technological advances that would enable us to use more Welsh in a wide range of situations. The Minister for Education and Welsh Language has now published the final report on this Plan, which looks back at the progress we’ve made.

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Going, Going, Gone: The beginning of the end for paper prescriptions in Wales

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By Ryan, Digital Health Policy

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On 17 November, the Minister for Health and Social Services announced that the first primary care prescriptions in Wales had been authorised via smartcard and sent digitally. This seems a straightforward and logical thing to do, so why the big fuss?

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Ukraine Independence Day

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24 August marks Ukraine’s National Day, also known as Independence Day.

Since the launch of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Wales has become a Nation of Sanctuary for thousands of people who have escaped the conflict. In this blog, we describe some of the work using digital tools in Wales to help Ukrainian people stay safe and supported.

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Guest Blog: Cyber In Wales: Investing in Growth

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This month we published our Cyber Action Plan for Wales. As we move to delivering the actions in the plan, we asked Pete Burnap, Professor of Data Science & Cybersecurity at Cardiff University, and Director of the Cyber Innovation Hub – which was also launched this month – to write a guest blog about the work they’re doing and how partnerships and collaboration will help  deliver the ambition in the Cyber Action Plan for Wales.

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Chief Statistician’s update: improvements introduced to labour market estimates for Wales

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In September 2023, we published a Chief Statistician’s blog providing advice about the challenges being faced in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) run by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the impact of such challenges on labour market statistics for Wales and what ONS plans were to address the challenges.

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Chief Statistician’s update: updated data on pupils eligible for free school meals published following additional validation exercise

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Today we have published our final results from the School Census which was undertaken in January 2023. These final results include revised data on pupils eligible for free school meals. We explain in this blog why it has been necessary to undertake additional validation of this data and to revise the information previously published.

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Chief Statistician’s update: understanding the labour market in Wales

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Last month the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published an article discussing the current challenges being faced in the Labour Force Survey (LFS), and what steps they are taking to address this. Today, we are discussing how these issues impact labour market statistics for Wales, and the approach we are taking to continue providing a robust and timely picture of the Welsh labour market.

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Chief Statistician’s update: disaggregating justice data for Wales

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Today we provide an update on ongoing work to improve the public availability of justice data for Wales, including the development of interactive dashboards to bring together available data for Wales in one place. This morning, the first of these dashboards – the Youth Justice Interactive Dashboard – was published.

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