All posts tagged "United Kingdom"

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  Exclusive Global Government Forum research reveals five pillars of a modern civil service

  Global Government Forum research has revealed the key characteristics needed in a modern public service, with priorities ranging across leadership, digital service delivery, workforce development, cross-departmental integration, and citizen trust.

  • Posted August 28, 2024
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  Building strategic capacity: what governments in Asia and Europe can learn from each other in the age of polycisis

  Countries face a shared set of problems, and governments need to develop strategies to meet them. A new paper by Professor Jochen Prantl and Professor Evelyn Goh sets out the

  • Posted January 22, 2024
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  If Levelling Up is to work, then it must meet the needs of a green economy

  Later today, the UK Government will publish its Spring Budget, hot on the heels of last month’s Levelling Up White Paper. Many questions remain about how levelling up will be

  • Posted March 23, 2022
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  Ireland’s top civil servant made ambassador to UK

  The Irish government’s most senior civil servant has been appointed as ambassador to the UK, in a move widely regarded as an attempt to strengthen ties between the two countries

  • Posted August 30, 2021
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  Who is William Shawcross, the government’s pick for public appointments commissioner?

  In the CVs of senior regulators, it’s not par for the course to see books reporting on the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and biographies of figures including

  • Posted August 6, 2021
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  UK civil service showcases crowdsourced ideas to improve data use

  The UK civil service has unveiled eight grassroots ideas on how to make better use of data in government. The projects make up the long list of the Civil Service

  • Posted August 3, 2021
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  Finding the growth elixir: how to build high-tech business clusters

  Thriving in the pandemic, digital and science firms promise renewed growth to governments that can foster world-class tech hubs. But how can civil servants help researchers and start-ups to build

  • Posted August 2, 2021
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  UK government proposes a new governing body to oversee digital identities

  The UK government is consulting on the creation of a governing body to oversee the use of digital identity services in the country. The proposals are contained within a broader

  • Posted July 22, 2021
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  UK government must improve commercial transparency and market knowledge, watchdog says

  The UK government’s “established processes” for commercial contracts lacked resilience under the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic and it must improve transparency and its understanding of markets, the independent public

  • Posted July 21, 2021
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  UK and Singapore open digital trade talks

  The UK has become the first European country to begin negotiations with Singapore on a Digital Economy Agreement (DEA), following a model under which the Asian nation seeks to foster

  • Posted June 29, 2021
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