Simon Freeman and Chris Melia, Capita Local Public Services, discuss the challenges that local government has faced during the Coronavirus pandemic and how putting citizens at the heart of service design is the key to future success.

The technology for a connected country is here. In fact, we’re already putting it to work across Scotland – in healthcare, education, local authorities and beyond. Watch the video to see how Capita is accelerating Scotland’s digital and climate ambitions to make a real difference to people’s lives.

Since 2011, Capita has partnered with The Pensions Regulator to deliver automatic enrolment, employing 150 staff and operating a multi-channel customer contact centre to deliver direct communications to every employer in the UK. As a result, saving for a pension has become the norm, with 22.9 million people now saving into a workplace pension.

At a recent roundtable in partnership with Wired, Doug Brown, Head of Data, Cyber and AI Guild and Chief Data Scientist of Capita Consulting, was joined by Lisa Talia Moretti, a digital sociologist at the Ministry of Justice; Reid Darby, innovation lead at Golden Valley Development in Cheltenham; Carly Kind, Director at the Ada Lovelace Institute and Tavi Kotka, an engineer/entrepreneur and former Chief Information Officer for the Estonian government to discuss data, identity and the digital citizen.