In a modern fast-paced society, public administrations need to ensure that the best decisions are made at all time and that they can respond quickly to a rapidly-changing environment. Decisions must be based on relevant, timely and quality data, and administrations need to develop the ability to extract from it meaningful insights to support their policy-making cycle and internal decisions. Digital transformation can help achieve this objective through modern data analytics technologies and data science methodologies and techniques, and support administrations in becoming data-driven organisations.
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Gertrud Ingestad
Gertrud Ingestad was born in Sweden in 1958. She did her studies in languages and history and worked as a language teacher in Stockholm before joining the European Commission in 1995.
Her main domain in the Commission has been resources, with a specialisation on people-and organisation-related issues, in DGT and DG CONNECT, where she also started working with IT from a digitalisation perspective. In January 2014 she joined DG DIGIT as Director for Information Systems and Interoperability Solutions, now Digital Business Solutions. Since 16 April 2016 she is Director-General of the Directorate-General for Informatics.
Her main driving force is constant improvement in collaboration.
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