What can local authorities do to improve the quality, security, and efficiency of sharing data?
Better data sharing and access have the potential to reduce costs and enable more targeted service delivery, combat fraud and drive efficiencies. On 2nd June SICCAR hosted a roundtable on data sharing challenges in local and regional government.
Realising the value of volunteers
In March 2020 the health secretary, Matt Hancock, announced a scheme to recruit 250,000 volunteers to support people who were unable to leave their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. The intention was that these volunteers would help the NHS and local services by...
Event Summary – How do we implement Open Referrals to support the voluntary sector?
On the 5th May 2021, SICCAR hosted an online workshop to discuss Open Referrals for the voluntary sector. The SICCAR team have been working with CAST, to build a scalable and re-usable tech prototype to support referrals into and within the voluntary sector. Watch the...
Top 3 opportunities for the Energy sector to get the maximum benefit from Distributed Ledger Technology
Learn the most important opportunities for the energy sector to get the maximum benefit from distributed ledger technology
Open Referral Project – Final Weeknotes
The SICCAR team are working with CAST as part of Catalyst, to build a scalable and re-usable tech prototype to support referrals into and within the voluntary sector. Now nearing the end of the 11-week project, this week we had the opportunity to show our platform to...
What is Privacy by Design?
Privacy by Design is a fundamental realignment of how we design and build digital services, with the crucial driving feature being the protection of user data. Over the past thirty years, organisations have been building systems without giving much thought to privacy....
Covid Vaccine Passports: catalyst for change or recipe for disaster?
It is up to Government and public health to grasp the opportunity to innovate with industry and set the standards for easy, secure citizen-led sharing and verification of health status, even beyond COVID.
Open Referrals for the voluntary sector – what are they?
The Open Referrals UK data standard provides a mechanism for describing voluntary sector organisations and the services that they provide. The SICCAR team is working with CAST to build a scalable and re-usable tech prototype to support referrals into and within the voluntary sector.
Prepare for an influx of health & vaccine passports: protect citizen data
Using SICCAR, public health and private stakeholders, together with the citizen, are linked across a decentralised trust network in which they are empowered with consent over the data they wish to share, giving maximum privacy protection.