Government Transformed

About Government Transformed

Digital transformation within governments around the world. Produced by Global Government Forum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Global Government Forum

Category

business · government · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Sept 2023

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

25 of 29 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Estonia’s digital minister on the history – and future – of its trailblazing government

   Estonia's Minister of Justice and Digital Affairs, Liisa Pakosta, discusses with GGF's executive editor Richard Johnstone the nation's digital transformation, focusing on transparency, efficiency, and AI safety.

2. 

   26 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Government Transformed 2.0 Episode Five: What is the institutional imperative – and why does it matter for evaluation in government (and everything else)?

   In the fifth and final episode of Government Transformed 2.0, David Halpern rejoins Richard Johnstone and Nicholas Gruen to discuss the efficacy of evaluative processes in government, and how public servants can and should be empowered to make better evaluations of public policy. Gruen explains the concept of the institutional imperative by way of Warren Buffett's ‘business imperative’, from which he admits he has borrowed the term. “What [Buffett] says is that business managers find that they are driven to expand the business. His argument is that, as an investor and a business manager, his role is not to expand a business, but to use capital as productively as possible. And those two things are not the same in government.” Gruen went on to say that the institutional imperative often risks becoming a “preoccupying force” in government, such that it crowds out “problem-solving [and] critical thinking about how a system can improve”. Listen to hear Gruen and Halpern also discuss: · The importance of independent evaluations of policy, · The role of curiosity in driving innovation · The potential for bottom-up meritocracy to improve government services. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   12 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Government Transformed 2.0 Episode Four: Public-private digital partnerships

   Nicholas Gruen and Sherry Glied, professor of public service at New York University, explore public-private digital partnerships for personalized public health services.

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Estonia’s digital minister on the history – and future – of its trailblazing government

Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So there is a lot of opportunities how you can get all the services without having internet connections or without having any gadgets. For example, all the libraries, public libraries in Estonia, serve as digital services desks. And it is such a wonderful picture when elderly ladies and gentlemen gather to local library, they take a cup of coffee, they make their bank transfers, they get the digital services they need with the help of the librarian, which is also actually from 1990s already not a librarian, but an information specialist. and nobody is left behind. So, and if you have a disability, you can't move at all, for example, then it's the local government who delivers all the services at home. […]

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• Liisa Pakosta
• Nicholas Gruen
• Sherry Glied
• David Halpern
• Laura Gilbert

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