A high-pressure public sector is bad for mental health. Can government help?
When James Cattell, a delivery manager at the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), told colleagues about...
Three reasons some countries are far more unequal than others
Why do the richest 1 per cent of Americans take 20 per cent of national income, but the richest 1...
How to stop smart cities from becoming surveillance cities
Urban officials dream of a future of “smart cities” that use new technologies to gather comprehensive data and algorithms to...
What the rise of the trillion dollar tech company means for policymakers
The ascent of Amazon and Apple into the trillion dollar valuation club is a landmark corporate achievement. Together, these two...
Government can send immigrants to rural areas. But can it make them stay?
In the three years to 2020, Canada will welcome almost a million new immigrants. Hundreds of thousands will settle in...
How can government make the most of AI without threatening rights?
Governments everywhere are announcing new strategies for artificial intelligence. From France, which has pledged $1.85billion in funding for research in...
Mapped: the childcare deserts where nearly half of Canada’s young kids live
Almost one in two preschool children in Canada live in a “childcare desert,” where they have to compete with at...
For government innovation to take off, it needs to break out of the lab
A single team or lab could never create the volume of ideas needed to make hundreds of small improvements in...
Finland is building a robot that will help you get a job
Talk of robots in the labour market usually focuses on their job-destroying capabilities (or lack of them). But in Finland,...
Public sector innovation buzzwords: translating jargon into plain English
Innovation labs and units have become so fashionable in the public sector that the question “Have we reached peak lab?”...