All posts tagged "IT"

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  The power of peril: how to get government legacy transformation underway

  Elected leaders’ eyes may glaze over when technologists talk about digital transformation – but the threat of cyber attacks catches their attention, national IT leaders explained at the Global Government

  • Posted April 11, 2023
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  Canadian public service headcount set to rise

  Canada’s public service headcount is expected to grow to 409,000 over the next five years – an increase of 18,000 personnel on 2021 figures, the country’s parliamentary budget officer has

  • Posted November 29, 2022
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  ‘Bureaucracy – oh a living hell’: five minutes with Estonia’s CTO Kristo Vaher

  The chief technology officer tells GGF about having finally ‘cracked it’ after years as an automation engineer, why he believes the civil service should neither design nor build citizen services,

  • Posted July 3, 2022
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  US federal agencies to upgrade cyber and data capabilities as part of government-wide IT plan

  The Biden administration is to focus on improving cybersecurity and data analytics capabilities across federal government as part of an IT modernisation plan published by the Office of Management and

  • Posted June 14, 2022
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  Canadian public servants frustrated by Phoenix compensation delay

  Three former public servants have spoken out about the stress caused by delays to compensation payments they say they are owed after suffering hardship due to the botched Phoenix pay

  • Posted June 9, 2022
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  ‘The best leaders focus on inspiring and enabling their staff to give their best’: five minutes with… Ireland’s CIO Barry Lowry

  Lowry, who was director of ICT shared services and strategy for the Northern Ireland Executive before becoming the Republic of Ireland’s chief information officer in 2016, tells GGF about Ireland’s

  • Posted May 26, 2022
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  Labor promises public inquiry into ‘Robodebt’ failings if it wins Australian election

  Australia’s opposition Labor Party has said it will call a royal commission to investigate the failings of a debt-calculation system that resulted in more than 400,000 people being chased for

  • Posted May 4, 2022
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  Responding to rising threats: heading off cyberattacks in the era of the perma-crisis

  At a Global Government Forum webinar, Mia Hunt heard public sector experts explore the trend for more frequent and serious cyberattacks – exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the invasion

  • Posted April 27, 2022
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  UK launches priorities review of legacy IT systems

  The UK government is piloting a “dynamic” review of its ageing IT legacy systems, and aims by 2022 to roll out a new framework to identify “at risk” infrastructure and

  • Posted October 3, 2021
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  Japan launches Digital Agency

  The Japanese government has launched a new Digital Agency to spearhead the development of online public service delivery and integrate IT systems across departments and agencies. The agency, which began

  • Posted September 8, 2021
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