Covid & Vaccination Strategy

From leaders to learners: digital chiefs’ pandemic lessons

Since the pandemic arrived, governments have leaned heavily on technological solutions to protect citizens and businesses. At a GGF webinar, digital leaders from the UK, South Korea and Canada discussed […]

Autumn for urbanism? Cities after the pandemic

Since COVID-19 arrived, demand for homes and offices has moved out of city centres – raising questions over their future. Adam Branson asks whether this shift will endure, and considers […]

Nordics lead EU’s innovation league table

An annual exercise to assess which countries in the EU and beyond have created the best environments for innovation across their private and public sectors has hailed Sweden as the […]

Infection barriers: the emerging ecosystem of COVID passports

As ever more governments introduce COVID passports, experts from the private sector and three national civil services explored the issues at a GGF webinar – debating both their potential to […]

EU launches digital Covid certificate to restore free movement

Citizens of the EU-27 will soon be able to assert their freedom of movement rights across the bloc without COVID-19 testing, self-isolation or quarantine restrictions, after the EU completed the […]

Lessons learned: policy must focus on pandemic prevention, not just preparedness

As the world looks to a future after COVID-19, experts are urging governments to concentrate on preventing viruses from spilling over into humans. But this takes cross-departmental co-ordination, bringing together […]

Crystal clear: Sir Ian Diamond on using data to profile the pandemic

The UK civil service has transformed its data operations during the pandemic, says Office for National Statistics chief Professor Sir Ian Diamond – web-scraping, integrating datasets, and building partnerships with […]

COVID elimination strategies saved economies as well as lives, say scientists

Countries that focused on eliminating COVID-19 performed better on health, economic and civil liberties measures compared with those that opted to mitigate the virus, a group of leading scientists has […]

The race to protect: how COVID-19 supercharged civil service delivery

When the pandemic arrived, civil services acted rapidly to protect citizens. At the Global Government Summit, national leaders discussed some of the lessons they’d learned – and looked ahead to […]

Experts warn of security and privacy challenges around vaccine passports

Implementing COVID-19 vaccine certificates will present policymakers with a range of challenges around secure data-sharing with the private sector and protecting citizens’ privacy, experts told a parliamentary committee in the […]