All posts tagged "COVID-19 coronavirus"

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  From technological barriers to leadership focus: lessons from managing teams remotely both pre- and post-pandemic

  Former civil servant Andy Smith shares his experiences of working and managing teams remotely – in both the public and private sector – from the early 90s to start of

  • Posted May 17, 2022
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  Economic Outlook 2022: What the data says about the risks and responses needed to capture emerging opportunities

  For nearly two years, the pandemic has obscured the global outlook, making traditional long-term economic planning for governments challenging. While a vaccine-led vision for re-emerging formed intermittently across the world,

  • Posted January 28, 2022
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  Aye of the needle: overcoming vaccine hesitancy

  To end the pandemic, governments must persuade the vast majority of adults to get vaccinated – but apathy, health fears and conspiracy theories are holding down vaccination rates. Liz Heron

  • Posted August 26, 2021
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  US government seeking volunteers from immigration agency to process Afghan refugees

  Officials from the US immigration agency are being asked to volunteer to support the relocation of Afghan refugees, after the Taliban’s dramatic return to power. The US government aims to

  • Posted August 19, 2021
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  Harvard group urges governments to focus on preventing pandemics, not responding to them

  An expert group convened by the USA’s Harvard University has urged governments to focus on preventing the creation of new viruses, noting that preventive work is vastly cheaper than responding

  • Posted August 18, 2021
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  Kazakhstan banks on small business digitalisation as engine of accelerated growth

  The Republic of Kazakhstan is about the size of western Europe and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the south west to Russia in the north and China to the

  • Posted August 16, 2021
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  Canada mandates COVID-19 vaccination for all federal workers

  All federal government workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of September, according to an announcement made by the government of Canada on Friday. A further vaccine mandate

  • Posted August 16, 2021
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  US federal workers could be disciplined – or fired – for lying about vaccination status

  US federal employees could face tough penalties – including disciplinary action, losing their jobs and even criminal proceedings – if they lie on a new COVID-19 vaccination certificate, according to

  • Posted August 10, 2021
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  Finding the growth elixir: how to build high-tech business clusters

  Thriving in the pandemic, digital and science firms promise renewed growth to governments that can foster world-class tech hubs. But how can civil servants help researchers and start-ups to build

  • Posted August 2, 2021
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  Biden considers mandatory vaccination for federal employees

  US President Joe Biden is considering plans to require all US federal employees to have a COVID-19 vaccination. When asked on Tuesday whether he would introduce such a mandate, Biden

  • Posted July 28, 2021
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