Government Transformed

Feb 14 2025 11 ep. 39 mins 5
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Digital transformation within governments around the world. Produced by Global Government Forum. 
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Innovation in government: opening up policymaking to people-powered insight

Feb 14 2025 75 mins  
Governments need to better join-up policy development with operational delivery to ensure they can meet the growing challenges they face – but such collaboration can be difficult to implement in practice.In this podcast, experts from the UK, Estonia and Brazil share best practice on harnessing people-powered insight in policymaking, examining how governments are working to unders

How the failure of Healthcare.gov kickstarted US government transformation

Jul 15 2024 50 mins  
The 2013 launch of healthcare.gov – the US government website that helps American’s find health insurance – is most often viewed as a failure. The website crashed on its first day, leading to batch of negative headlines as the US government scrambled to get it back online. But this is only half the story. What is less remembered now is the recovery – how government cha

How a family bereavement transformed one public servant's outlook on digital public services

Jun 18 2024 32 mins  
Jonathan Finch, acting director of digital experience in the US government’s Office of Management and Budget, is still relatively new to government, having moved into his role after a six-year career at Deloitte. His motivations for making the transition, however, run deep. When Finch lost a loved one, he was forced to navigate complex government pro

UK general election: how to get ready for the next government - BONUS EPISODE

Jun 06 2024 48 mins  
Welcome to this special edition of Government Transformed in which we look at the key issues in the UK general election and how civil servants will be working to get ready for the next government.The general election will be held on 4 July, with parties setting out their vision for the future of the country.That means that right now, civil servants are working on ‘day one’ docu

The story – and legacy – of the UK government’s digital academy

May 23 2024 38 mins  
In this latest episode of Government Transformed, GGF’s executive editor Richard Johnstone and podcast producer Jack Aldane journeyed from London to Leeds to join a reunion of one of the UK government's most innovative digital projects – the digital academy. The academy was initially set up in Department for Work and Pensions, before transferring to the Government Digital

The Barbadian government learns from Iceland's digital transformation journey

Feb 29 2024 41 mins  
Iceland and Barbados may be 4,000 miles apart and have wildly different climates but as two small island nations with similar populations, it turns out there is much that the Barbados government can learn from Iceland – about digital transformation in particular.  This, the fifth and final episode of Government Transformed series 1 was recorded during a three

Why building trust is the foundation of successful digital transformation in government

Feb 22 2024 42 mins  
“One of the things about trust is it takes a long time to build and can be lost in a split second.” In this, the penultimate episode of Government Transformed Series 1, guests Eilidh McLaughlin, head of the Scottish Government’s Digital Citizen Unit and Ben Roseth, modernisation of the state senior specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank, discuss why trust is a

How the centre of government can be an enabler – not a blocker – of public service digital transformation

Feb 15 2024 40 mins  
Most countries have a digital transformation strategy for government, but what is the role of central digital units in helping turn those ambitions into reality?  In this, the third episode of Government Transformed, guests Shira Lev-Ami, chief executive of Israel’s National Digital Agency and Àstrid Desset, former director general of the Open Government of Catalonia�

Making digital transformation happen in government: from the ‘why’ to the ‘how’

Feb 08 2024 32 mins  
In this second episode of Global Government Forum’s new podcast, Government Transformed, Kevin Cunnington, the former head of the UK’s Government Digital Service. Delves into how governments can make progress on digital transformation with podcast host and former UK senior civil servant Siobhan Benita. Cunnington describes his work creating a digital transformation st

The difference between digitalisation and true transformation in government

Feb 01 2024 29 mins  
Governments around the world are all working to digitise their services to make the most of technology to provide better services.In this brand new podcast series from Global Government Forum, produced with support from knowledge partner Visa, we delve into all things digital transformation in government, exploring the key building blocks needed to create modern, responsive and cit