Asia Pacific (APAC)

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Australian tax agency to implement audit report’s recommendations on AI governance

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has agreed to join up its automation and AI strategies, clarify communication around accountability, and review risk controls, following an audit on AI governance at […]

New Zealand government forges path to responsible AI with new framework

The government of New Zealand has launched an artificial intelligence framework for the public service, setting out a roadmap to safe deployment of AI across government departments. Paul James, the […]

Report finds Australian Public Service making ‘significant’ progress on gender equality

The Australian Public Service (APS) has made “significant gains” towards gender equality but there is still more to do, according to a new report. The interim evaluation covers two years […]

From power shifts to productivity: Public service trends in 2024 

After another busy year for public servants, we round up some of Global Government Forum’s top news stories and features from the last 12 months, highlighting the trends, challenges and […]

Why countering climate misinformation must be a priority

Discussing the open letter on curbing disinformation published during the COP29 conference, Pallavi Sethi, a policy fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, argues governments have […]

Australian Public Service to release digital workforce plan in 2025

The Australian Public Service (APS) plans to release a strategy next year for attracting and retaining digital talent in the government workforce. Speaking after the publication of the APS’s 2024 […]
Sarah Glavey Head, Public Service Transformation Policy, Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Ireland speaking at the Global Government Finance Summit.

If it counts, count it: government finance leaders on boosting productivity

The public sector is often accused of inefficiency – but at the Global Government Finance Summit, top leaders revealed some highly inventive ways of driving up civil service productivity “The […]
Jeffrey Saviano, who leads the Emerging Technology Strategy and Governance Practice at EY consulting speaking at GovernmentDX

The case for a Hippocratic Oath for artificial intelligence

Two millennia ago, Hippocrates devised an oath to bind practitioners of the emerging practice of medicine. Now a modern equivalent is required to address the equally transformational arrival of AI, […]

Singapore tops global civil service ranking

Singapore has come out on top of a new ranking of the performance of 120 public administrations around the world, with Denmark, Canada, Norway and Finland completing the top five. […]

Australian government workers save an hour a day in large generative AI trial

Australian public servants who took part in a six-month trial of generative AI reported that it saved them an average of an hour a day. The trial made Microsoft 365 […]