All posts tagged "UK"

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  UK government scraps pledge to move civil servants from London; Jakarta tells officials to work from home to cut air pollution: management & workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. UK government discards levelling up pledge to move civil servants from London Plans to move

  • Posted August 24, 2023
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  AI ‘to quicken UK government decision-making’; Australian public servants await pay offer: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. AI could quicken government decision-making, says UK deputy prime minister The UK’s deputy prime minister

  • Posted August 17, 2023
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  ‘I always knew that my anchor was health’: GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with former UK health department chief, Dame Una O’Brien

  In this episode of Leading Questions, Una O’Brien, who was permanent secretary of the UK Department of Health between 2010 and 2016, joins podcast host Siobhan Benita for a chat

  • Posted August 10, 2023
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  UK government risk register sets out 89 serious threats to national security and safety

  The UK has set out the top threats the country faces, as part of what a senior civil servant said was an effort to provide a “comprehensive understanding of the

  • Posted August 6, 2023
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  UK Treasury issues cost-saving guidance to departments; New Zealand to form online security agency: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed UK Treasury issues efficiency guidance HM Treasury has published new guidelines for departments on how

  • Posted August 3, 2023
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  Integrity under threat: civil service ethics in the era of populism

  Populism left an indelible mark on the 2010s, and its hold in democracies remains strong. During a Global Government Forum webinar, experts discussed how civil servants can maintain legitimacy at

  • Posted July 27, 2023
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  Public Service Data Live conference to help unlock UK public sector transformation

  Public servants from across the UK will come together on 14 September for a unique conference aimed at helping to improve how data is used across government and beyond to

  • Posted July 21, 2023
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  UK’s top civil servant demands end to ‘Blob’ slur; third of Canadian public servants say work suffers due to staff churn: management & workforce news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed UK cabinet secretary calls for end to “dehumanising” term to describe officials Simon Case, the

  • Posted July 20, 2023
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  ‘We have to do it faster and better than they do’: CIA chief sets out era of US-China ‘strategic competition’ in AI and beyond

  The head of the Central Intelligence Agency has said that harnessing the power of artificial intelligence represents “the most profound transformation of espionage tradecraft since the Cold War” as he

  • Posted July 17, 2023
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  From AI to net zero: what governments are focusing on around the world

  Government are dealing with major trends influencing the work of public services around the world. This article examines issues from artificial intelligence and building citizen trust and engagement, to the

  • Posted July 13, 2023
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