Behavioural science and Blueprint 2020
If you’ve read Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, you know that the idea of using behavioural economics to...
What’s in a word?
Last month I wrote about accountability for procurement. I like this definition of the term: “If you are accountable for...
Reinventing government and democracy for the Digital Age
The push for government cutbacks is running up against growing public expectations about what government should be and do. They...
CGE Summit: Change for the future
It should come as no surprise that citizens who suffered the most in the 2008 financial crisis have a diminished...
Royal Canadian Mint introduces MintChip
The Royal Canadian Mint has been busy developing a new digital currency system called MintChip, which is demonstrated at the...
The Council of Europe: Humanizing the Internet
At the end of November, the Council of Europe hosted the second World Democracy Forum, with this iteration examining digital...
Weekly Roundup – Jan. 17
It’s week’s end already! Did you miss any of our content this week? We’ve had a few stories either from...
Step up: Leadership in a changing public sector
We know that the old models of leadership that have relied primarily on the one leader at the top –...
Fudging Performance: The politics of measurement
we now have what one federal ADM described to me as ""decision-based evidence making"". With the amount of information and...
Citizen, customer and partner
Some of us are old enough to remember the New Public Management (NPM) thinking that argued governments needed to start...