All posts tagged "infrastructure"

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  Internet freedom in sharp decline, watchdog warns

  A lack of regulation and a rise in authoritarian government control has led to an “unprecedented assault on free expression online”, with global internet freedom declining for the eleventh consecutive

  • Posted September 24, 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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  From retrofits to investment vehicles: building the infrastructure for green growth

  To ‘build back better’, governments must oversee the creation of new infrastructures to decarbonise their economies. At a recent webinar, senior officials from the OECD, Estonia and the Czech Republic

  • Posted April 9, 2021
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  Building for the future: delivering infrastructure for the post-COVID world

  Infrastructure is key to economic recovery – but the pandemic has raised big questions around both public sector finances, and the kinds of infrastructure that will be required. At the

  • Posted February 17, 2021
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  Government must be more ambitious on devolution and investment to ‘level up’ the UK

  The government needs to invest more in people – not just infrastructure – and distribute power away from the centre to address regional inequality, writes Anna Round of the Institute

  • Posted December 10, 2020
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  Rebuilding public finances: exploring the post-pandemic recovery

  As governments invest in keeping their economies ticking over, civil servants are thinking about how to close yawning budget deficits. At a recent webinar, finance leaders considered how best to

  • Posted October 22, 2020
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  With crisis comes opportunity: economic sustainability and the argument for going green

  Governments around the world have had no choice but to roll out vast stimulus packages in a bid to keep economies afloat during the coronavirus crisis. At a recent GGF

  • Posted September 27, 2020
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  Six ways Intelligent Decisioning can reduce costs for governments

  With significant pressure on governments to make better use of resources than ever before, it will become especially important to improve the efficacy and efficiency of decision-making in ways that

  • Posted August 17, 2020
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  Cyber criminals targeted Australian government nearly 450 times in one year

  The Australian Government has published a three-pronged strategy to protect Australia from cyber attacks. A $1.67 billion plan has been launched to strengthen protection against cyber attacks targeting Australia’s government,

  • Posted August 10, 2020
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  Strength in numbers: combined authorities and the levelling up agenda

  Bringing together local authorities under city-regional mayors, combined authorities can achieve far more than individual councils. At a GGF webinar, public servants and economists considered their role in the government’s

  • Posted July 31, 2020
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