All posts tagged "Policy & Governance"

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  Watch this space: do governments stand to gain from the metaverse?

  The metaverse may have arrived, but its applications are limited and its use by public sector organisations is still very much up for debate. While some governments boast big plans,

  • Posted June 18, 2023
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  UK cabinet secretary sets out five tests for civil service effectiveness

  The UK’s most senior civil servant has set out for the first time the five tests that he uses to measure Whitehall effectiveness. In a speech delivered last month at

  • Posted February 21, 2023
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  Staying in the loop on your commute or on the beach: the best public policy and government podcasts this summer

  Podcasts have become a key information source for public and civil servants. Along with books, periodicals and social networking, podcasts are key elements of the media landscape for officials around

  • Posted August 14, 2022
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  Future proof: what public servants need to know now about the world of 2050

  Leading economics journalist Hamish McRae shares the insight from his latest book The World in 2050, and predicts that a changing climate, a recasting of globalisation, and a need for

  • Posted May 25, 2022
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  Three reasons universal basic income pilots haven’t led to policy change – despite their success

  Universal basic income – a tax-free, unconditional sum of money regularly given to everyone in a society – has repeatedly been shown to help the most vulnerable groups in society.

  • Posted April 19, 2022
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  Opinion: why a paradigm change is needed in public service thinking

  In a fast-changing and increasingly complex world, cookie-cutter solutions to public policymaking will no longer suffice, argues academic Jochen Prantl. Here, he outlines the factors prompting the need for change

  • Posted April 18, 2022
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  Canadian federal Budget announces strategic policy review amid spending restraint

  Canada’s finance minister Chrystia Freeland has announced a “strategic policy review” in the 2022 federal Budget to ensure that spending matches government’s priorities, while also setting out plans to rein

  • Posted April 10, 2022
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  The UK’s Online Safety Bill: more revisions needed to ensure legislation tackles harms on the web

  The UK’s Online Safety Bill aims to introduce law and order to the Digital Wild West and was recently introduced to the House of Commons. Anna George, a social data

  • Posted April 5, 2022
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  Keep calm and communicate: five keys to good government comms in a crisis

  Crisis in government require clear communication, and clear communication requires a clear plan of what to do when challenges strike. James Humphreys sets out the rules to follow Those who

  • Posted April 4, 2022
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  The senior civil service in Britain: what it is, who is in it, and how it has changed

  The UK’s senior civil service is the top group of officials responsible for top policy advice to ministers and running departments and agencies. Colin Talbot explains how it was formed,

  • Posted March 11, 2022
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