All posts tagged "Legislation"

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  ‘Radical incrementalism’: new APS commissioner details 10-year reform agenda

  Priorities for reform of the Australian Public Service (APS) will include a focus on people, behaviours and strengthening laws and institutions to ensure that the APS can sustain delivering and

  • Posted July 3, 2023
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  Innovation 2023 five minutes with… Megan Lee Devlin of the UK’s Central Digital and Data Office

  In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders that will be speaking at our free Innovation conference. Taking place

  • Posted March 19, 2023
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  Biden says government is working again as US Senate passes milestone climate change bill

  Senators in the US voted through the night on Sunday to push through president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act – a major piece of legislation that allocates US$454bn to tackle

  • Posted August 8, 2022
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  End short-term thinking and focus on delivery, civil service reform panel told

  The UK civil service must look beyond policymaking to focus on implementation and delivery, former senior political advisers told an influential panel examining civil service reform last week. Jonathan Powell,

  • Posted December 7, 2020
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  Take out the tedious: robotic automation in government

  Taking on routine, high-volume tasks, Robotic Process Automation can create huge time savings for both public servants and citizens. At a GGF webinar, experts from Finland, Romania, the USA and

  • Posted October 14, 2020
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  Construction or demolition? Explaining Boris’s new Brexit battle

  UK PM Boris Johnson had been wildly happy about his new EU exit deal; then he introduced a law undermining both it, and the last round of trade negotiations. Speaking

  • Posted October 6, 2020
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  Grown-up government: an interview with Iain Rennie, New Zealand’s former state services commissioner

  Over four years working as a consultant to governments around the world, former New Zealand civil service chief Iain Rennie has witnessed the global slide towards populism. But in his

  • Posted September 18, 2020
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  UK’s FCA: customers must be told about ‘access to cash’ changes

  The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has told banks considering closing either a branch or ATM that they will need to provide an analysis of the likely impact on customers’

  • Posted September 17, 2020
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  Major survey highlights Europeans’ fears over AI

  Less than 20% of Europeans believe that current laws “efficiently regulate” artificial intelligence, and 56% have low trust in authorities to exert effective control over the technology, according to a

  • Posted September 16, 2020
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  Facebook and Google dig in against Australian media law

  Facebook has threatened to block Australians from sharing news via the social media platform and its Instagram service, if the government persists with plans to require the tech giant to

  • Posted September 2, 2020
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