All posts tagged "Michael Wernick"
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Letter from Ottawa: The starting gun goes off for an unusual election in Canada
The past month has been one of those occasions when events move quickly. In Canada those who follow government and politics now have clarity on some things and profound uncertainty
- Posted March 27, 2025
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Letter from Ottawa: Navigating through a year of uncertainty
With a change of prime minister imminent and a new president over the border, the Canadian public service faces a year of change – at a time when the government
- Posted January 20, 2025
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Letter from Ottawa: Time approaching for a deep pruning of the federal state in Canada?
GGF’s Management and Workforce Monitor newsletter is taking a break in August, but here we share insight from Michael Wernick, the former clerk of the Privy Council and secretary to
- Posted July 29, 2024
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Professor Sue Black on AI and education, innovation challenge winner tackles major AI barriers, and more
Welcome to this month’s AI Monitor. In this edition, we share insights from the new OECD report on responsible use of AI in government, details of this year’s Isle of
- Posted June 25, 2024
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Canada reviews public service values; UK’s opposition leader vows to tackle civil service churn: news in brief
Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Canada looks to update public service values and ethics The Canadian public service has released
- Posted January 11, 2024
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Digital transformation and maintaining public service legitimacy: the best of Global Government Forum’s 2023 interviews and features
The latest of Global Government Forum 2023 roundups shares our most-read interviews and in-depth coverage of the year Covering everything from US federal CIO Clare Martorana’s insights into how to
- Posted December 27, 2023
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Letter from Ottawa: diagnosing the elements of Tired Government Syndrome
Parliament has returned in Canada for what’s likely a final session before the election. If history is any guide, the government will find it hard to make progress before the
- Posted September 18, 2023
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Canadian public servants issued guidelines for using generative AI
The Canadian federal government has rolled out a set of guidelines to help officials use generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools responsibly at work. The preliminary guidelines define generative AI as
- Posted September 17, 2023
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Integrity under threat: civil service ethics in the era of populism
Populism left an indelible mark on the 2010s, and its hold in democracies remains strong. During a Global Government Forum webinar, experts discussed how civil servants can maintain legitimacy at
- Posted July 27, 2023
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‘Now everybody feels the stress across the system’: the impact of the era of permacrisis on public servants
It is not a surprise that the phrase ‘permacrisis’ has quickly gained popularity in the lexicon. The turbulence that societies have faced in the early years of the 2020s have
- Posted June 7, 2023