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Policy Development

UK cross-government leadership group highlights departmental ‘good practice’ initatives

A cross-government group of senior leaders in the British government has released a list of ten good practice examples it believes will enhance leadership skills drawn together from different departments. […]

Improving government effectiveness: lessons from Germany

Governments are increasingly recognising that they cannot regulate themselves out of the problems they currently face – and that they must learn to look outwards to improve their effectiveness, writes […]

British civil service is world leader, says top civil servant

The British civil service is world leader in behavioural insights and evidence-based policy, its most senior civil servant has claimed. Speaking at an event in London last week, cabinet secretary […]

40 countries expected to attend Singapore education conference

Senior government officials from more than 40 countries are expected to come together at the OECD-Singapore Conference on Higher Education Futures in October. Around 500 people, including senior civil servants, […]

New Australia-Singapore Research Centre Opens

The head of Singapore’s civil service, Peter Ong, has launched a new research centre, which will feed into Singapore’s and Australia’s growth policies. The Asia Growth Research Centre, based at the […]

Vaping – How Do Governments Respond?

The English Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year 2014 is ‘Vape’. The popularity of the word mirrors the increasing use of e-cigarettes over the last two years and represents a […]

Stefan Schweinfest – Why The 2020 Census Is An Enormous Opportunity

The United National Statistics Division has a new Director – Stefan Schweinfest. In an exclusive interview with Global Government Forum, he talked about the challenges facing his department but he […]

Understanding choices, shaping citizens

How do governments help citizens make better choices? Behavioural insights can help, as Graham Scott discovers If there’s one thing that can be said with certainty about human beings, it […]

World’s first behavioural insights conference planned: Sydney, June 2014

Organised and sponsored by a variety of private- and public-sector organisations, Behavioural Exchange 2014 will bring practitioners from across the globe together to consider how behavioural innovations are shaping public […]