All posts tagged "Dont Miss"

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  Regaining public trust: sunlight is the best disinfectant

  Citizens’ faith in their national governments is falling across much of the developed world. James Johns considers some of the innovative ways in which countries and cities around the world

  • Posted July 25, 2018
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  “A terrible idea, for so many reasons”: civil servants react to Trump’s reform plans

  The US president has set out a series of organisational changes, including the break-up of the Office of Personnel Management – the federal HR policy and services agency. Tamar Wilner

  • Posted July 13, 2018
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  Thousands of civil servants sacked in Turkey

  More than 18,000 Turkish public employees have been dismissed by a government decree, ahead of the inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a reshaped presidential role with significant new powers. Erdoğan,

  • Posted July 12, 2018
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  Courting capability, part 1: tempting talent into civil services

  In many countries, the pressures to cut budgets and introduce digital services have created a need for technical professionals at the most senior levels of government – but most civil

  • Posted June 19, 2018
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  Business groups demand extra powers for Northern Ireland civil servants

  Business leaders have called on the UK’s Northern Ireland secretary to grant the province’s civil servants extra powers in order to ease its political paralysis. A group of 12 business

  • Posted June 7, 2018
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  Auditor brands Canada’s Phoenix pay system an ‘incomprehensible failure’

  Canada’s auditor general has branded the Phoenix pay system an “incomprehensible failure” that is a symptom of a “much deeper cultural issue” within the federal government. Michael Ferguson called on

  • Posted June 6, 2018
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  Transforming routine work: the rise of the robots

  Digitally transforming a service can bring huge rewards – but replacing a legacy system is often complex and risky. So many governments are introducing Robotic Process Automation, stripping the routine

  • Posted June 5, 2018
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  Gambia to introduce ‘score cards’ for civil servants

  Gambia’s new Secretary General and Civil Service chief Habib Saihou Drammeh has hinted at introducing different score cards to assess the performance and output of civil servants. Drammeh made the

  • Posted February 12, 2018
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  Singapore launches new cyber security regime

  Singapore is to have a new cybersecurity tsar with wide-ranging powers to seize confidential information and impose penalties under legislation passed by its parliament on Monday last week. The Cybersecurity

  • Posted February 11, 2018
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  Trump appoints his first federal CIO

  US president Donald Trump has announced plans to appoint Ernst & Young principal Suzette Kent as the nation’s next chief information officer (CIO), the first permanent holder of that title

  • Posted February 7, 2018
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