All posts tagged "cross-government"

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  Finding your identity: how three governments are developing digital ID

  Digital ID is an essential building block for rapid progress on transforming public services – but only a handful of governments have launched effective, popular systems. At the Global Government

  • Posted March 23, 2023
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  Overcoming the challenges of working across government boundaries: how interagency performance was transformed in New Zealand

  A new book details the innovative New Zealand programme that improved performance in ten of the most challenging cross-cutting problems. Professor Rodney Scott and Ross Boyd explain how it was

  • Posted April 6, 2022
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  Singapore chief on the biggest challenges facing civil servants: learning pace and earning faith

  Many civil servants responded to the pandemic with enormous speed and innovation – and their populations noticed, said Singapore Civil Service Head Leo Yip at the opening session of the

  • Posted April 21, 2021
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  How to embed the agility and pace seen during the pandemic response in governments

  At a recent webinar, senior civil servants from the UK, Canada and Finland discussed where operational cultures could change after the pandemic, and where there could be a reversion to

  • Posted March 3, 2021
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  Asking the right questions: an interview with Canada’s stats chief, Anil Arora

  When the pandemic struck, Canada’s stats agency was barred from doing doorstep surveys – just as agencies from across government came knocking in search of information. Its chief Anil Arora

  • Posted October 29, 2020
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  UK data strategy signals new cross-government standards

  The UK government has published its National Data Strategy, setting out a series of actions to drive progress on civil service data management. Published by the Department for Digital, Culture,

  • Posted September 10, 2020
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  Managing a distributed workforce now and beyond COVID-19

  Earlier this year, civil services worldwide found themselves having to transition thousands of employees to working remotely, often with just a few days’ notice. And as panellists explained during a

  • Posted August 11, 2020
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  EBRD chief: governments must ‘push much harder’ on sustainability

  Inaction is not an option on environmental sustainability, EBRD president Sir Suma Chakrabarti told the Global Government Leaders’ Forum. Mia Hunt hears top officials from four countries debate how governments

  • Posted June 8, 2020
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  Australia forms cross-public sector digital panel to boost COVID-19 response

  The Australian government has formed a group of ministers drawn from federal and state administrations to strengthen tech-based services and businesses, supporting work to address COVID-19. The senior officials –

  • Posted May 22, 2020
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  Sunil Shahaney, former Director of the Debt Programme, Cabinet Office, UK: Exclusive Interview

  In 2011, the UK mounted a cross-government drive to shrink its $26bn pile of outstanding debts. Programme head Sunil Shahaney explains to Matt Ross how he got ministers and departments

  • Posted November 1, 2018
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