This is Part 1 of my reflections on multidisciplinary teams, which examines the conflict between the design of multidisciplinary teams and their non-transformative impact. Part 2 will look at how ...

Estonia had built a wide range of e-government services, but the ways people accessed them were fragmented. Different government agencies had each developed their own chatbots, leaving citizens and ...

Experts and researchers from various Estonian state authorities, universities, technology companies, and banks have completed a comprehensive cyber defense thought paper that offers recommendations to ...

Three months away from work doesn't just affect your schedule. Sometimes, it affects how you see yourself. When I left work to deal with some personal challenges, my primary focus was resolving a ...

AI and AI tooling will keep getting better and cheaper. The risk that is becoming increasingly clear is that verification does not improve at the same rate, and public institutions end up running a ...

Two teams in the same organisation, solving the same problem, completely unaware of each other. They commission separate work, reach divergent conclusions, implement incompatible solutions. Six months ...

Working in digital transformation, ICT policy, and public sector programme leadership means operating in a space defined by complexity. This work spans the critical domains of technology, governance, ...

Can democratic institutions gain better digital sight without giving AI authority? Two new Civic AI thought experiments consider how public institutions might detect and preserve early signs of ...

This article is Part 10 of Sally Washington's Building Policy Capability series, which looks at how to improve the work of government through high-performing policy systems. 'Sense making and making ...

For many governments, the idea of a smart city has traditionally been associated with efficiency: better transport, connected infrastructure, digital public services, environmental monitoring and data ...

Apolitical is a private community for public servants and policymakers. Learn more. Being a good public speaker may seem like a talent that only a few lucky people possess – but it’s a skill that, ...

Understand what Power BI can do Build a Power BI dashboard from messy data Learn shortcuts that save hours on data tasks Power BI is probably already in your Microsoft licence. Whether you've built ...