All posts tagged "Public services"

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  Digital transformation in government: how to move from vision to implementation

  How can governments and departments create their own vision for digital transformation? What does it take to move from vision to implementation? And what common mistakes should be avoided? In

  • Posted February 8, 2024
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  What are governments’ top priorities in 2024?

  Public services around the world are dealing with what many government leaders are calling the age of polycrisis. With conflicts still raging in Ukraine and Gaza, the economic and social

  • Posted February 7, 2024
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  Government digital transformation 101: key building blocks explained in new GGF podcast series

  What are the key building blocks needed to create modern, responsive and citizen-centric governments? And how can civil servants knock down the barriers that stand in the way? To answer

  • Posted February 1, 2024
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  How to ensure effective decision-making in the civil service

  Civil servants continue to be unfairly blamed for obstructing ministerial plans, but relationships can be improved and repaired through better decision-making, says Andrew Kakabadse, professor of governance and leadership at

  • Posted December 17, 2023
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  UK government aims to tackle admin burden across public services

  Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will this week set out plans to reduce public servants’ administration workload after a Treasury review found that some frontline staff spend a whole day a week

  • Posted November 20, 2023
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  UK cabinet secretary salutes COVID data heroes and discusses potential of AI at Public Service Data Live

  “There were many public service heroes in COVID, but I always make sure that statisticians and our data experts get a shout out,” Simon Case, the UK’s cabinet secretary has

  • Posted September 14, 2023
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  Public servants around the world raise alarm over increasing workload

  A majority of public and civil servants around the world have said that their workload has increased since 2020 – and an even higher proportion think that their workloads are

  • Posted September 12, 2023
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  AI could deny vulnerable citizens public services, fears EU chief

  Artificial intelligence is likely to harm underprivileged citizens most, the European Union’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has said, as speculation grows over AI’s threat to humanity. Speaking to the BBC,

  • Posted June 19, 2023
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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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  ‘Serve your country – you will never regret it’: listen to GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with the White House’s Noreen Hecmanczuk

  In the first of our Leading Questions podcasts to feature an American federal government leader, Noreen Hecmanczuk reflects on a long and diverse career in public service – a career

  • Posted May 4, 2023
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