All posts tagged "Transparency"

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  Privacy, security, trust, transparency: how to enable data-sharing in government

  At the Global Government Digital Summit, digital leaders set out the barriers to government data sharing – from citizens’ suspicions to systems that disincentivise departments – and shared ideas for making

  • Posted March 7, 2025
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  UN hails leap forward in global climate action transparency

  Ninety nations have formally reported progress towards meeting their Paris Agreement commitments, in what the UN called a “critical effort… ensuring transparency in global climate action”. The cornerstone of

  • Posted January 31, 2025
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  Defeating disinformation: how to create a healthier national conversation

  Bad actors are poisoning the information well from which populations drink in the democratic world. In the final part of our investigation into overseas interference in elections, Matt Ross asks

  • Posted February 11, 2024
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  ‘Radical incrementalism’: new APS commissioner details 10-year reform agenda

  Priorities for reform of the Australian Public Service (APS) will include a focus on people, behaviours and strengthening laws and institutions to ensure that the APS can sustain delivering and

  • Posted July 3, 2023
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  Letter from Ottawa: an exhausting year shows the limits of foresight and the comfort of hindsight

  Accountability in government is important – but hindsight must be used to help build resilience and capacity in the public sector, not make politicians and public servants even more risk

  • Posted December 13, 2022
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  A tale of two countries: why has state capture seen China boom and South Africa bust?

  Government structures in South Africa struggle under what observers call state capture. Ivor Chipkin, the director of the Government and Public Policy think tank, based in Johannesburg, sets out what

  • Posted June 27, 2022
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  UK government seeks international best practice on civil service accountability

  The UK government has begun a review into the best governance and accountability models for the civil service, with the aim to identify examples from around the world that could

  • Posted March 10, 2022
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  Friends in NED: why the UK government needs independent non-executive directors

  Growing allegations of cronyism have raised questions about non-executive directors’ influence and put pressure on the UK government to be more transparent about their appointment. Jack Aldane hears from current

  • Posted October 13, 2021
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  Breaking down silos: why savvy data management is essential for effective governance

  Governments often face events that threaten their country’s financial stability, create unemployment and increase the need to provide social support services. COVID-19 is one such example – and a big

  • Posted October 12, 2021
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  All change at the UK’s Civil Service Commission

  Four new civil service commissioners have been appointed to the independent statutory body that oversees appointments to the UK civil service, and a fifth is being sought to replace outgoing

  • Posted October 5, 2021
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