All posts tagged "New Zealand"

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  Career highlights: civil service leaders share their proudest moments

  From supporting victims of crime to developing future talent and nurturing authentic leadership – officials share their memorable work moments. Kate Hodge reports Sometimes in the melee of work, we

  • Posted December 14, 2020
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  Public leaders share their top priorities for civil service reform

  From training to remuneration and culture change, senior officials from across the world discuss what’s on their agenda for change over the coming year This year was no ordinary year,

  • Posted December 8, 2020
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  Leaders’ picks: national civil service chiefs share ideas for tackling COVID-19

  From supporting officials’ mental health to setting up a taskforce to tackle domestic violence, civil services around the world have responded to the novel coronavirus with new services and reforms.

  • Posted December 2, 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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  Crisis response: an interview with Sir Suma Chakrabarti

  Suma Chakrabarti, the former UK permanent secretary and EBRD chief, sees opportunities as well as risks amidst the COVID crisis; but western governments, he warns, are fumbling their response. Matt

  • Posted August 27, 2020
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  UK government drops exam grading algorithm in the face of public anger

  The UK government has been forced to overturn exam results produced by an algorithm, reverting to awarding grades based on teacher assessments, after large numbers of unjust results generated huge

  • Posted August 18, 2020
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  New Zealand launches government algorithm standards

  New Zealand has produced a set of standards designed to guide government use of algorithms and to improve data transparency and accountability, in what it claims is a world first.

  • Posted August 5, 2020
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  New Zealand enshrines civil service principles in law

  New Zealand has passed a new “citizen focused” public service legislation bill which aims to encourage collaborative working to help tackle the country’s most pressing challenges. Minister of state services

  • Posted July 27, 2020
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  National AI strategies more “aspirational than practical”, report finds

  National AI strategies lack planning for operational investments, are far more aspirational than practical and fail to consider funding realities, according to a new report by internationally-renowned think tank the

  • Posted June 24, 2020
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  Pointing the way forward on civil service reform

  Delivering reforms means “changing the engine as the plane is in flight”, Singapore’s civil service head Leo Yip told colleagues from 17 countries at the 2020 Global Government Summit. Matt

  • Posted May 25, 2020
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