All posts tagged "Reform"

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  Former UK Cabinet Office minister to review department

  Francis Maude, who as Cabinet Office minister drove the UK civil service reform agenda between 2010 and 2015, has been invited back to conduct a review of the Cabinet Office

  • Posted August 21, 2020
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  Indonesia publishes AI strategy

  The Indonesian government has introduced a national strategy that will guide the country in developing artificial intelligence (AI) between 2020 and 2045. The country is to focus its AI projects

  • Posted August 20, 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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  UK’s Cabinet Office wins back government data brief after two-year hiatus

  Responsibility for the UK government’s use of data has been moved back to the Cabinet Office from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), UK prime minister Boris

  • Posted July 24, 2020
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  COVID shines spotlight on how UK civil service must change, says Cabinet Office non-exec

  The response to the COVID-19 crisis has shown some of the very best of the UK civil service but has also “highlighted some serious shortcomings and some real problems,” according

  • Posted July 20, 2020
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  From Whitehall to Walsall: redistributing the civil service

  Among all the UK government’s civil service reform agendas, it is the goal of moving officials out of London and the South-East that is moving most quickly – with heavyweight

  • Posted July 16, 2020
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  COVID-19 and Brexit driving need for major civil service reform, says UK Cabinet Office perm sec

  The combination of the pandemic, Brexit, ‘levelling up’, ‘net zero’ and other pressing agendas are driving a need for big reforms in the UK civil service, Cabinet Office permanent secretary

  • Posted July 15, 2020
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  Doing good with data: an interview with the Development Bank of Latin America’s Carlos Santiso

  Dr Carlos Santiso is no stranger to crisis response, having spent 25 years promoting democracy, strengthening governance and fighting corruption in emerging economies and fragile states. The scale of the

  • Posted July 10, 2020
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  UK Cabinet secretary ousted as fears grow over politicisation of the civil service

  Sir Mark Sedwill, who has served as Cabinet secretary and head of the UK civil service since 2018, and national security adviser (NSA) since 2017, is to stand down in

  • Posted June 29, 2020
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  Ireland to introduce civil service diversity targets

  Targets are to be set for the number of people from ethnic minority backgrounds employed in the public and civil service in Ireland. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green

  • Posted June 19, 2020
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