All posts by Winnie Agbonlahor

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  Campaigners need 1m signatures to get meeting with EU officials over asylum air directive

  The European Commission has given campaigners one year to collect 1m signatures for an initiative to abolish an EU directive widely blamed for forcing refugees into risky boat trips to Europe.

  • Posted August 3, 2016
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  UK government announces new digital chief – hours after old one resigns

  Kevin Cunnington has been announced as the new head of the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) – hours after his predecessor Stephen Foreshew-Cain tendered his resignation. Cunnington’s appointment was announced

  • Posted August 2, 2016
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  Revealed: winners of Australia’s public sector innovation awards

  A shared content management system for government agencies has been among winners of Australia’s new public sector innovation awards. The service titled ‘govCMS’ which has so far been bought by

  • Posted August 1, 2016
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  Estonia seeks safe location abroad to protect citizens’ data from hackers

  The government of Estonia is holding talks with Britain and Luxembourg about setting up a data centre to back up data amid fears of a Russian cyber attack, it has

  • Posted July 29, 2016
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  Report suggests new national authority to improve health care in China

  The government of China should consider establishing a national authority to lead improvements across the health system, according to a new report which highlights the challenges created by the country’s

  • Posted July 28, 2016
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  What Brexit has meant for the UK civil service so far?

  While Britain’s vote to leave the EU has had no immediate impact on Europeans living in the UK or Britons living in other EU nations, the referendum result has led

  • Posted July 27, 2016
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  New chief of financial watchdog pledges to boost organisation’s confidence and establish ‘clear mission’

  The new civil servant in charge of Britain’s financial watchdog has revealed his plan to review the regulator’s mission in a bid to boost the organisation’s confidence and improve its

  • Posted July 26, 2016
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  Majority of readers have personally experienced federal pay problems affecting over 80,000 of Canada’s public servants

  Almost three quarters of Canadian Global Government Forum readers have personally experienced problems with receiving their federal pay, as the government of Canada has admitted that more than 80,000 public servants

  • Posted July 25, 2016
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  Committee pushes US government on ‘conversion’ of political appointees to civil servants

  The main US parliamentary committee has launched an investigation into the conversion of political appointees to civil servants – a process which runs the “risk of favouring political staff at the expense

  • Posted July 22, 2016
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  Commonwealth secretary-general: ‘We will turbo-charge Commonwealth trade advantage’

  The Commonwealth will “turbo-charge” efforts to increase trade advantages for its 53 member countries, following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, Commonwealth secretary-general Patricia Scotland has told parliamentarians.

  • Posted July 21, 2016
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