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Cyber security is an ever-changing area. New vulnerabilities continue to appear, and malicious actors will find ways to exploit them. Whilst it is never possible to eliminate all risks, Jersey organisations need to be vigilant and take steps to prepare.
A two-week consultation on the proposed Cyber Security (Jersey) Law starts on Tuesday 5 March and runs until Tuesday 19 March.
The Government of Jersey has recently published a consultation on its proposed Digital Economy Strategy and wants Islanders to get involved in helping to shape it. Why? Digitalisation and the tools and services it provides are a fact of our lives. They enrich our communications with others and provide opportunities to better balance our working and personal lives. … Read more Help shape the proposed Digital Economy Strategy
In a guest blog, Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and Non-Executive Director for Digital Jersey
In a guest blog, Sasha Gibb explains how she presented Jersey’s Public Voice: Common Ground project to the British-Irish Council
The below Q&A relates to a Consultation on improving the information made available to credit reference agencies, which can be found here: Credit reference agency access to information (gov.je) Why does Government want to give credit reference agencies access to personal information? Government is proposing to provide UK credit reference agencies (“CRAs”) with information on … Read more Q&A: Credit reference agencies and access to information
The following speech was given by the Minister for Infrastructure, Deputy Tom Binet, to members of the Jersey Chamber of Commerce at a Breakfast Briefing on Monday 26th June 2023: Good morning, everyone, and thank you for taking the time to turn up at this early hour, to hear Ian and me talk about the … Read more New Healthcare Facilities Programme: The preferred option and the next steps
Our new plan for multi-site Healthcare Facilities will deliver a third more space than the previous project; which means delivering services that were not in the brief for Our Hospital like rehab care, step down care, and therapies including Hydrotherapy. We’ve made a commitment to deliver healthcare facilities in a cost-effective way that represents the … Read more New Healthcare Facilities Feasibility Study: How will we ensure value for money?
We will now enter a month of consultation with Islanders, before the final version of the Feasibility Study Report is presented to the States Assembly in early July 2023. This will include engagement with: We’ll be releasing details of the various methods of engagement shortly and will be reaching out to the residents of Overdale, … Read more New Healthcare Facilities Feasibility Study: What happens next?
While developing the Feasibility Study, the Programme team have also been preparing the Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for the new healthcare facilities. The SOC basically sets out the strategic reasons for the Programme: to deliver fit for purpose healthcare facilities for all Islanders now and in the future, to replace the outdated and inefficient facilities … Read more New Healthcare Facilities Feasibility Study: Why is multi-site healthcare better than a single hospital?
When the two options were assessed in the Evaluation Workshops, as discussed in our previous blog post, Option B was clearly the preferred option of all the evaluation panels. Why was this the case? In the next of our blog posts, we explore the work being done to develop a Strategic Outline Case, and why … Read more New Healthcare Facilities Feasibility Study: Why was Option B selected?
