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COP28 climate summit just approved a ‘loss and damage’ fund. What does this mean?

Day one of the COP28 climate summit saw the first big breakthrough: agreement on a ‘loss and damage’ fund to compensate poor states for the effects of climate change. Met […]

‘Another world is possible’, or how we can learn to stop worrying and love the crisis

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From crowdsourcing to gamification: devising next-generation innovation strategies in government

News

Dave Penman on the panel of FDA event

Third of UK officials looking for jobs outside civil service, FDA survey finds

Low and stagnant pay is pushing a large number of civil servants to eye alternative career paths, a new survey by the FDA union has revealed. The trade union’s annual […]
Mike Pezzullo

Australia’s top home affairs official sacked for breaching code of conduct

Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese sacked the country’s top home affairs official Mike Pezzullo today after an independent inquiry found him guilty on 14 counts of breaching the code of […]
Alex Chisholm speaking at a REFORM event at the BT Tower in London

Tech talent urged to ‘give working for government a go’ as UK seeks to boost skills

Technology graduates have been urged not to let a lack of familiarity with government operations hold them back from working to deliver public services by one of the UK government’s […]
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US federal government considers waiving incentive limits for new recruits; Canada warns officials of personal data breach: management & workforce news in brief

Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. OPM proposes giving agencies authority to waive incentive limits as part of recruitment drive The […]

AI

Leaders gather for a photo at the AI Summit in Bletchley Park

Governments set out plan to ensure AI safety as US makes bid to lead standards

Government leaders from around the world agreed to ensure safe testing of next generation artificial intelligence (AI) models at the first global AI Safety Summit held in Bletchley Park between […]

AI-generated documents ‘biggest bet’ to improving NHS productivity, ex-director of transformation says

Countless lives could be saved if the UK were to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) that can automatically generate documents and so allow nurses and clinicians to focus on patient care, […]
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Canadian public servants issued guidelines for using generative AI

The Canadian federal government has rolled out a set of guidelines to help officials use generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools responsibly at work. The preliminary guidelines define generative AI as […]

Time to transform: exploring the AI readiness of UAE and Japan

At the Global Government Summit in Singapore, civil service leaders from 16 countries met to explore five of the biggest challenges facing their countries – debating in the fourth session […]

Features

Access denied: how governments can boost public servants’ cybersecurity skills

Growing geopolitical tensions and increasingly sophisticated organised crime groups have contributed to a rise in cyber threats and breaches. At a Global Government Forum webinar, experts from the UK, Italy, […]

Watch: how to boost a nation’s resilience

A recent Global Government Forum webinar looked at how governments around the world should work to improve their resilience. Experts came together to discuss how public sector organisations can boost […]
Katy Gallagher flanked by Dr Gordon de Brouwer Australian Public Service Commissioner and Dr Janine O’Flynn, Director Crawford School of Public Policy.

New phase of reform for Australian Public Service underway, says minister

An initial 12-month phase focusing on the design of the Australian Public Service (APS) reform agenda is complete and a second rebuilding phase is set to begin that aims to […]

Sustainability

COP28 climate summit just approved a ‘loss and damage’ fund. What does this mean?

Day one of the COP28 climate summit saw the first big breakthrough: agreement on a ‘loss and damage’ fund to compensate poor states for the effects of climate change. Met […]

Watch: how to boost a nation’s resilience

A recent Global Government Forum webinar looked at how governments around the world should work to improve their resilience. Experts came together to discuss how public sector organisations can boost […]
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COP28: a year on from climate change funding breakthrough, poor countries eye disappointment at Dubai summit

At the COP27 summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, an agreement to establish a loss and damage fund was hailed as a major breakthrough on one of the trickiest topics in […]

New foundations: why cross-sector partnerships on infrastructure are key to building a greener future

In July this year, Earth experienced the three hottest days ever recorded and with them the extreme weather events we’ve grown all too used to, proving once again that climate […]

Partner Content

Minister for Exports Lord Malcolm Offord speaking at UK Trade and Export Finance Forum 2023

Credit where credit’s due: UK government looks to ‘turbo-charge’ business exports
Speakers at a roundtable session at Public Service Data Live in London September 2023

Handle with care: how can government departments identify and manage critical data assets

Embracing AI: the interplay between people and intelligent machines

Canadian Government Tech Talk – #1

Digitalization of public procurement and government commercial payments
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UK Export Finance expands support for SME exporters

Webinars On Demand

https://youtu.be/Q7KvOEeDiMI

Shedding light on dark money: how governments can tackle illicit finance

https://youtu.be/VRQgmupPBM8

Trusted voice: how government communications can gain trust in an era of misinformation

https://youtu.be/CJu-yI7_vzk

Shaping public investments for the net zero world

https://youtu.be/JRyMY7A0Es0

Last line of defence: how to protect government data from cyber attacks

https://youtu.be/ir2002pY10M

Streamlined support: bringing government payments into the digital era

https://youtu.be/x77_7d4bZdk

Buildings for the future – reworking the public service office for the flexible working era

Interviews

The fight for the skies: how governments are battling in the era of astropolitics

In his 2015 book Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall detailed the historical and geographical factors that explain Putin’s 2022 attack on Ukraine. Now, he warns, the global race for resources […]
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‘Don’t think the “cool” stuff is just the things that look important from the outside’: Five minutes with Public Service Data Live speaker Dominic Lague of the UK Cabinet Office

In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders who spoke at Public Service Data Live in London on 14 September. […]

‘I want to contribute to the development of society’: Five minutes with Public Service Data Live speaker Tuula Lybeck of Finland’s finance ministry

In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders who spoke at Public Service Data Live in London on 14 September. […]

‘Deliver the plan, develop your people and set out the future’: Five minutes with Public Service Data Live speaker Chris Bellamy, director of publishing, GOV.UK

In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders who will speak at Public Service Data Live in London on 14 […]

Digital & Technology

Access denied: how governments can boost public servants’ cybersecurity skills

Growing geopolitical tensions and increasingly sophisticated organised crime groups have contributed to a rise in cyber threats and breaches. At a Global Government Forum webinar, experts from the UK, Italy, […]
Alex Chisholm speaking at a REFORM event at the BT Tower in London

Tech talent urged to ‘give working for government a go’ as UK seeks to boost skills

Technology graduates have been urged not to let a lack of familiarity with government operations hold them back from working to deliver public services by one of the UK government’s […]

European e-government analysis: digital growth ‘remarkable’ in four nations

A European Commission-backed ‘mystery shopper’-style research exercise that culminates in an annual ranking of the digitalisation of public services across Europe has highlighted ‘remarkable’ recent growth in four countries. Turkey, […]
A picture of Stephen Burt speaking at AccelerateGov 2023

Canada’s Public Service Data Challenge opens for entries

Canada’s second Public Service Data Challenge has today opened for entries, with public servants across the workforce invited to send in their ideas for how government could make better use […]

Finance

Fraud fighters: public authorities look to fuse technology with data to battle criminals

Government agencies and law enforcement bodies are looking to combine the latest technology with digital data to combat fraud. Ian Hall reports on a Global Government Fintech webinar exploring the […]
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt & Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott visit Milton Keynes Blue Light Hub to hear from front line staff about how the government can support them to reduce the burden of admin. Photo by Zara Farrar / HM Treasury

UK government aims to tackle admin burden across public services

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will this week set out plans to reduce public servants’ administration workload after a Treasury review found that some frontline staff spend a whole day a week […]
Canadian Treasury Board President Anita Anand at a rally during the 2021 Canadian federal election.

Canadian government plans C$500m of in-year budget cuts

 A picture of Noureddine Bensouda, general treasurer of the Kingdom of Morocco, speaking at the Global Government Finance Summit.

The digital souk: reforming procurement in Morocco

 Senior finance leaders from 12 countries attended the Global Government Finance Summit, hosted in 2023 in Rabat by the General Treasury of the Kingdom of Morocco

‘It harms taxpayer compliance to see a lot of tax evasion and avoidance going on’: how governments can reshape obsolete tax systems
A picture of the Casa Rosada (English: Pink House), the official workplace of the president of Argentina

Argentina’s economic crisis: whoever wins presidential election is on a collision course with the IMF

Digital direction: how to use technology to procure better – and how to better procure technology

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Canadian government spending cuts being ‘rushed’, warns union