All posts tagged "Reform"

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  Canada’s Justin Trudeau announces new senior public service appointment

  The prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has announced the appointment of Serge Dupont as the new deputy clerk of the Privy Council and associate secretary to Cabinet. Dupont, currently

  • Posted April 1, 2016
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  Australia’s Digital Transformation Office releases prototype of new gov.au

  Australia has published the first prototype of a new government website, focused around citizens’ needs rather than government structures. Civil servants at the Digital Transformation Office (DTO) have been working

  • Posted March 30, 2016
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  Looking after number one: prioritisation in government

  Governments find it notoriously difficult to agree a manageable list of top priorities. Dan Hymowitz of the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, which has worked with governments across the continent,

  • Posted March 29, 2016
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  How to get things done in government: the art of delivery

  Tony Blair’s African governance charity is sharing what it’s learned about policy delivery in a series of reports. Matt Ross talks to series author Dan Hymowitz “Delivery units are spreading

  • Posted March 29, 2016
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  Government of Canada pledges creation of new central ‘results and delivery unit’

  Canada’s federal government is creating a new unit within the Privy Council Office (PCO) to monitor results and delivery of government policies. The new Results and Delivery Unit has been

  • Posted March 24, 2016
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  What’s so great about Estonia’s e-Residency programme?

  Estonia’s e-Residency programme has attracted global attention – and other countries may soon follow suit. Winnie Agbonlahor catches a glimpse of a future in which nations compete to offer people

  • Posted March 24, 2016
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  Changes announced among Singapore’s most senior civil servants

  The head of Singapore’s civil service Peter Ong will relinquish his appointments as permanent secretary, special duties at the prime minister’s office (PMO), and as finance permanent secretary, and take

  • Posted March 23, 2016
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  OECD calls on Poland to introduce ‘cooling-off’ periods for senior officials

  The OECD has called on Poland to introduce a ‘cooling-off’ period for senior civil servants leaving the public sector to reduce revolving-door opportunities. The majority of developed countries have such

  • Posted March 22, 2016
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  Satellite night signal project could help India’s government spread electricity

  A tool monitoring the use of light in Indian cities and villages could help the government in its effort to bring electricity to all the country’s villages by 2018, a

  • Posted March 21, 2016
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  Andrew Hampton to lead New Zealand national security agency

  Andrew Hampton is to lead New Zealand’s national security agency less than two years after becoming the government’s first ever chief talent officer. Hampton, whose civil service experience ranges from policy

  • Posted March 16, 2016
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