All posts by Mia Hunt
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UK publishes new generative AI guidance for civil servants; Gender equity alliance launched at Davos: news in brief
Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. UK publishes new generative AI guidance for civil servants The UK government’s Central Digital and
- Posted January 25, 2024
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Azerbaijan adds women to COP committee after backlash
Azerbaijan has added 12 women to the COP29 organising committee, having initially announced an all-male line-up. Earlier this month, Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev announced the committee for this year’s global
- Posted January 24, 2024
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‘I was a newborn when Bahamian women voted for the first time’: Five minutes with Brenda Dorsett, under secretary of The Bahamas’ Ministry of National Security
In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from women civil and public servants as part of our Global Government Women’s Network coverage. In this
- Posted January 16, 2024
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UK opposition to meet with civil servants ahead of general election
Senior politicians in the UK’s opposition Labour party will start talks with civil servants on how they would run government should they win the election later this year, having been
- Posted January 15, 2024
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Canada reviews public service values; UK’s opposition leader vows to tackle civil service churn: news in brief
Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Canada looks to update public service values and ethics The Canadian public service has released
- Posted January 11, 2024
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Digital transformation and maintaining public service legitimacy: the best of Global Government Forum’s 2023 interviews and features
The latest of Global Government Forum 2023 roundups shares our most-read interviews and in-depth coverage of the year Covering everything from US federal CIO Clare Martorana’s insights into how to
- Posted December 27, 2023
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Australia publishes new government data and digital strategy; UK to accelerate plans to move 22,000 civil service roles out of London: news in brief
Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Australian government sets out ‘unified blueprint’ for maximising digital and data capabilities The Australian government
- Posted December 20, 2023
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Irish government moves to cut outdated gender stereotypes from constitution
The Republic of Ireland is to hold two referendums next year on whether the country’s constitution should drop references to women’s role in the home. The constitution, drafted in 1937
- Posted December 17, 2023
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UK civil servants make bid for four-day working week
Civil servants in the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have launched a campaign to work a four-day week. Staff at the department have called for a
- Posted December 12, 2023
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UN introduces feminist climate justice framework for policymaking
A new UN report has set out a framework for enabling women’s contribution towards climate justice and how it can be applied to policy in practice. The report shows how
- Posted December 6, 2023