All posts by Natalie Leal

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  World Economic Forum launches roadmap for safe cross-border data flows

  The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched a “roadmap” to encourage policymakers and governments to legislate for safe data-sharing practices across international borders. Developed in partnership with the Bahrain Economic

  • Posted June 17, 2020
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  UK to reverse outsourcing of probation service

  All probation services in England and Wales are to be brought back under public ownership and control, reversing the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) six-year programme to outsource delivery of most

  • Posted June 15, 2020
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  UK commissions AI firm to support COVID-19 housing analysis

  A UK government department has appointed an Artificial Intelligence company to help it identify and analyse new data sources, supporting its coronavirus response. London-based AI firm Faculty will provide the

  • Posted June 12, 2020
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  Citizens in six G7 nations losing faith in handling of pandemic, survey finds

  A new survey has found that a majority of people across the G7 nations have lost confidence in their governments’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. But opinions vary widely between

  • Posted June 10, 2020
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  Trump directs departments to bypass environmental regulations

  Donald Trump has signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to waive environmental restrictions in order to fast-track infrastructure projects such as mines, highways and pipelines. The president said this

  • Posted June 9, 2020
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  Economic ventilators: how to build a stimulus package

  The governments of locked-down nations agree on the need for vast cash injections to keep their halted economies ticking over – but European states are taking a very different approach

  • Posted April 1, 2020
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  Zimbabwean officials warned to register biometrics or lose pay

  Civil servants in Zimbabwe have until the end of the month to register their biometric details or risk losing their pay, the government has said. In a statement released earlier this week,

  • Posted February 16, 2020
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  UK standards committee: ‘urgent need’ to strengthen regulation of public sector AI

  A new report looking at artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK public sector says there’s an “urgent need for guidance and regulation.” AI has the potential to “revolutionise” public service

  • Posted February 13, 2020
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  Australian government was aware ‘robodebt’ programme unlawful, emails reveal

  Civil servants administering a controversial welfare debt recovery system run by Australia’s Department of Social Services (DSS) received advice that their operations were unlawful, a string of newly released emails

  • Posted February 12, 2020
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  Trump proposes 1% federal pay rise as US budget published

  President Trump has submitted a plan to Congress for all federal workers to receive a 1% pay rise, effective from 1 January 2021. While this is an improvement on the

  • Posted February 11, 2020
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