To avoid causing even more disruption, we should learn from research findings such as those of the New Local Government Network's recent digital roundtables on what works.
Many small- and medium-sized factories are running older, one-size-fits-all enterprise software systems that are "expensive to use... and buy," as William P. King, chief technology officer of DMDII, explained at a recent Forbes roundtable "The Digital Factory".
To help answer this question, the Guardian, sponsored by Cisco, brought together data technologists, website marketers and digital leaders from ad agencies for a roundtable discussion.
The roundtable agreed that by making digital literacy a fundamental part of the education system, not only will schools be equipping children with vital tools for the modern workplace, they will be laying the ground for the next generation of computer scientists and innovators.
Digital was a common theme in the roundtable discussion moderated by Josh Quittner, editorial director of Flipboard, and presented by MediaPost Communications.
ConverJent provides workshops and training in Torah learning through game design and has organized a new Jewish Games Roundtable, as well as designs digital and offline games for Jewish learners.
This roundtable discussion brought together data managers, digital leaders from ad agencies and representatives from top websites to discuss the big issues around digitisation.
With that said, Labour's Chi Onwurah has been doing a lot of digital outreach, such as the women in tech roundtable TechCrunch covered recently.
In order to try and better understand some of these issues, a roundtable discussion on the topic, sponsored by digital marketing technology provider Adobe, was held recently at the Guardian's offices in Kings Cross.
In the last years the U.S. Federal Trade Commission hosted a series of public roundtable discussions on privacy issues in the digital age and in a recent staff report [27] it describes a proposed framework with three main recommendations: privacy-by-design, simplified consumer choice, and increased transparency of data practices.
