All posts tagged "decision-making"

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  New Zealand launches government algorithm standards

  New Zealand has produced a set of standards designed to guide government use of algorithms and to improve data transparency and accountability, in what it claims is a world first.

  • Posted August 5, 2020
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  Select committee ‘astonished’ by UK’s failure to plan for pandemic

  The UK government failed to consider in advance how it might deal with the economic impacts of a pandemic, rushed its response to COVID-19, and must “ensure it doesn’t repeat

  • Posted July 28, 2020
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  Respond, recover, reimagine: how government agencies can emerge stronger post COVID-19

  If you are a government leader, or one of the millions of people employed in the public sector globally, these last 100 days have probably been the most challenging of

  • Posted July 28, 2020
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  UK officials’ focus on price damages IT procurements, report finds

  The UK civil service focuses too closely on price in procurement decisions, a new report has claimed, and “lacks the capability and capacity to fully understand” how new IT systems

  • Posted May 27, 2020
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  From clenched fists to handshakes: top officials debate how to get departments working together

  In almost every country, governments are organised vertically – but the challenges they face run horizontally across departmental boundaries. Earlier this year, civil service leaders from 17 countries met to

  • Posted May 7, 2020
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  Lord O’Donnell challenges lockdown decision-making and reversion to unilateralism

  On purely medical grounds, lockdowns are effective in suppressing COVID-19. But Gus O’Donnell, the UK’s former Cabinet secretary, tells Matt Ross that national decision-makers should take a wider view of

  • Posted April 29, 2020
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  Oxford University launches global corona policy tracker

  The University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government has created a tool that tracks and compares government policy responses to the coronavirus crisis worldwide.    The aim of the Oxford

  • Posted April 5, 2020
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  NZ Treasury errors led to budget leak, inquiry finds

  A series of failures at New Zealand’s Treasury – including a shortfall in governance, oversight and risk management processes – led to sensitive budget material being accessible on its website,

  • Posted March 2, 2020
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  Opinion: the ‘power of where’ – realising the potential of geospatial data

  For millennia maps have guided exploration, supported trade and allowed us to defend our nations and maintain the social fabrics of our societies. They tell the story of human endeavour

  • Posted December 6, 2019
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  Impartiality under threat: a warning from former UK Cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell

  Impartiality is a cornerstone of Westminster-style civil services – but in the UK it’s under threat, Lord O’Donnell warned last month. Mia Hunt hears him explain the seven key benefits

  • Posted November 15, 2019
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