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  Regaining public trust: co-creating a shared future

  Many national governments are experiencing a crisis of public trust – one which, the...

  • Posted August 2, 2018
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  Regaining public trust: sunlight is the best disinfectant

  Citizens’ faith in their national governments is falling across much of the developed world....

  • Posted July 25, 2018
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  Affordable renewable electricity has arrived: what next?

  Last year, global investment and installation in renewable electricity supplies overtook their fossil fuel...

  • Posted July 17, 2018
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  “A terrible idea, for so many reasons”: civil servants react to Trump’s reform plans

  The US president has set out a series of organisational changes, including the break-up...

  • Posted July 13, 2018
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  The rise and fall of GDS: lessons for digital government

  Founded in 2011, the UK’s Government Digital Service led the world in transforming online...

  • Posted July 9, 2018
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  Courting capability, part 2: the business of government

  There are many ways to bring private sector skills into government beyond the mainstream...

  • Posted July 4, 2018
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  Courting capability, part 1: tempting talent into civil services

  In many countries, the pressures to cut budgets and introduce digital services have created...

  • Posted June 19, 2018
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  The looming squeeze on America’s civil servants

  Pushing forward a set of changes to remuneration, working practices and conditions, the Trump...

  • Posted June 15, 2018
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  Transforming routine work: the rise of the robots

  Digitally transforming a service can bring huge rewards – but replacing a legacy system...

  • Posted June 5, 2018
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  Senate defies Trump’s civil service pay freeze

  A spending package including a 1.9% pay rise for US federal employees in 2019...

  • Posted August 8, 2018
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  E-government progress hampered by digital divide, UN report finds

  Denmark, Australia and South Korea have come top in a biennial United Nations survey...

  • Posted August 6, 2018
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  Canadian Senate committee calls for Phoenix error resolution targets

  More should be done to support civil service employees who are waiting to have...

  • Posted August 5, 2018
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  US agency personnel chief investigated for sexual harassment

  The top official in charge of personnel at the US government’s Federal Emergency Management...

  • Posted August 2, 2018
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  Russian retirement ages to rise as demographics squeeze pensions pot

  Russia has announced a rise in the retirement age, with the goal of avoiding...

  • Posted July 31, 2018
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