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‘They call it public service for a reason; you are serving something that is bigger than yourself’: five minutes with Stephen Burt, chief data officer of Canada
In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders that will be speaking at our free AccelerateGov conference on
- Posted September 13, 2022
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Five minutes with… AccelerateGov speaker Cristina Shimoda of Brazil
In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders that will be speaking at our free AccelerateGov conference on all things
- Posted September 7, 2022
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‘No matter how senior we get, we must be open to hearing views across the table’: five minutes with GovTech Singapore’s Karen Kee
Karen Kee, deputy director, international and community development lead at GovTech Singapore, tells GGF about her agency’s data exchange platform, the importance of ‘intellectual humility’, and why her dad is
- Posted August 29, 2022
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Five minutes with… AccelerateGov speaker Stelios Himonas of Cyprus
In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders that will be speaking at our free AccelerateGov conference on
- Posted August 19, 2022
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‘Don’t let forever climbing hurdles leave you unhappy’: five minutes with the UK Food Standards Agency’s Julie Pierce
The agency’s director of openness, data and digital, and Wales, tells GGF about engineering your career to do more of what you love, her desire to see technocrats at the
- Posted August 7, 2022
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‘It’s impossible to lead people who don’t trust you’: five minutes with Slovenia’s public administration chief Peter Pogačar
Peter Pogačar, the director general of the public sector directorate in Slovenia’s Ministry of Public Administration, tells GGF about civil service leaders’ resistance to change, why he’s inspired by the
- Posted July 23, 2022
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‘Bureaucracy – oh a living hell’: five minutes with Estonia’s CTO Kristo Vaher
The chief technology officer tells GGF about having finally ‘cracked it’ after years as an automation engineer, why he believes the civil service should neither design nor build citizen services,
- Posted July 3, 2022
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‘Don’t fade into the background’: five minutes with GovTech Singapore’s chief executive, Kok Ping Soon
Ping Soon shares his advice for ambitious public servants – including why it’s important not to assume the boss has all the answers, the lessons from Singapore’s national identity system,
- Posted June 19, 2022
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‘As long as you have given your best, don’t beat yourself up’: five minutes with… Qatar’s Khawar Iqbal
Iqbal, who was director of the digital society department at Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology until last year and is now a consultant to the Ministry, tells GGF
- Posted June 5, 2022
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‘The best leaders focus on inspiring and enabling their staff to give their best’: five minutes with… Ireland’s CIO Barry Lowry
Lowry, who was director of ICT shared services and strategy for the Northern Ireland Executive before becoming the Republic of Ireland’s chief information officer in 2016, tells GGF about Ireland’s
- Posted May 26, 2022