All posts tagged "Policy & Governance"
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‘Take all the opportunities you can!’: Five minutes with Natalie Jones, director of digital identity, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders who will speak at our Innovation 2025 conference. Taking place in
- Posted March 25, 2025
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Judge pauses Trump administration plan to put USAID civil servants on leave
A plan by the Trump administration to put almost all civil servants at the US government’s international development agency on leave has been put on hold until later this week
- Posted February 10, 2025
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Global Government Summit brings together civil service leaders to address biggest challenges
This week’s Global Government Summit in Singapore will bring together senior civil service leaders from around the world to discuss the challenges – and solutions – to the issues facing
- Posted January 21, 2025
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How Government Works: A guide to the corridors of power in the UK
Understanding how the UK government, parliament and civil service work can be daunting. In a series of podcasts, Global Government Forum provides an in-depth guide to how the UK government
- Posted December 19, 2024
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UK pledges to make government ‘more like a start up’ to rewire the state ‘one test at a time’
A senior UK minister has set out plans to reform the whole of government through thinking more like a technology start up, with an initial focus on deploying a “test
- Posted December 10, 2024
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UK names new civil service head to ‘rewire the British state’
UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Sir Chris Wormald as the UK’s cabinet secretary and head of the civil service with a mission to “change the way government
- Posted December 3, 2024
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Innovation 2025 event to showcase government transformation in action
Global Government Forum has today launched the agenda for the 2025 Innovation conference, with the event focusing on providing civil servants in the UK and beyond with the insights and
- Posted November 28, 2024
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Lessons from the rise and fall of the UK’s Department for International Development
The UK’s Department for International Development both tackled poverty around the world and strengthened Britain’s global reputation – but then it was closed and international aid merged with the Foreign
- Posted October 29, 2024
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‘Small changes that cumulatively make a big difference’: UK government launches One Big Thing initiative focused on innovation
The UK civil service has launched its latest One Big Thing campaign, which this year will be focused on innovation in government. One Big Thing is an annual initiative for
- Posted October 21, 2024
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UK digital functions rewired with pledge to ‘overhaul the experience of interacting with the government’
The new UK government has made a series of changes to the structure of Whitehall, headlined by changes to the key digital and data agencies which are intended to help
- Posted July 10, 2024