The Knowledge Council provides the professional lead for knowledge and
information management within the civil service. It consists of senior leaders
in knowledge and information management across government departments
including representatives of the Chief Information Officers Council and the
Chief Technology Officers Council. The Chair is Andrew Stott, Deputy Chief
Information Officer for Government.
The Knowledge Council reports to the Delivery Council and is also sponsored
by Jonathan Stephens, DCMS Permanent Secretary. The Delivery Council
focuses on how to improve public service and reports to the Civil Service
Steering Board.
The Government Knowledge and Information Management Network
(GKIMN) supports the Government Head of the Knowledge and Information
Profession and the Knowledge Council in raising government's capability in
knowledge and information management in order to deliver more effective
services to citizens. The GKIMN team oversees and co-ordinates the
implementation of strategies to support the function, and provides services
and activities to connect people working in knowledge and information in
central government and public bodies. It maintains the GKIMN wiki, a secure
online environment for this community.
Natalie Ceeney, the Chief Executive of The National Archives is the
Government Head of the Knowledge and Information Management
Profession. She is also a visiting professor at the school of library and archive
science at UCL and sits on the Government’s Power of Information Task
Force. Under her leadership, and working with the cross-government
Knowledge Council, the function works to ensure that government's
information professionals are able to meet the changing and complex
challenges in the management and exploitation of knowledge and information
to support the work of government and its partners.
Andrew Stott, the UK Government Deputy Chief Information Officer, based in
the Cabinet Office. He is responsible for the overall direction of the
Transformational Government Strategy and for the Service Transformation,
Identity and Data Sharing, Supplier Management and Technical Policy
workstreams. Andrew Stott chairs the Chief Technical Officers' Council and
the Knowledge Council, and sits on the CIO Council and the Delivery Council.
He is a member of the CIO Council's Supplier Management Board and chairs
the Office of Government Commerce ICT Collaborative Category
Procurement Board
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The Gurteen Knowledge Community is a global learning community
of over 17,000 people in 160 countries across the world.
The community is for people who are committed to making a difference:
people who wish to share and learn from each other and who strive to see
the world differently, think differently and act differently.
Membership of the Gurteen Knowledge Community is free.
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