|
|
| Source: |
Financial Times |
| Source Date: |
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| Focus: |
E-government, Best practices and lessons-learned, Government
|
| Summary: |
Unfortunately, Mr [Tony Blair]'s approach to managing change seemed to be based on a mythical version of heroic leadership, popularised by some of the management magazines. "Announce it and it will happen," runs the myth. The Canadian management guru Henry Mintzberg calls this approach "management by deeming" - "I deem that this will be so." But getting hospitals to w ... Read More |
|
15 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Feb 26, 2010 |
|
|
|
| Source: |
Financial Times |
| Source Date: |
Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| Focus: |
E-government, Best practices and lessons-learned, Government
|
| Summary: |
"Centralised cuts could cripple service delivery," said David Pardey, head of research for ILM. It was important not to limit managers' freedom to innovate, he added.
He predicted some fundamental changes in public services. There would be more self-service by the public, with lessons being learned from the retail sector. People would do more for themselves, "with support but wi ... Read More |
|
22 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Feb 26, 2010 |
|
|
|
| Source: |
Dovile Rutkauskaite, ECRN, Rome (dovile.rutkauskaite@iaegeie.eu) |
| Source Date: |
Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| Focus: |
E-government, Best practices and lessons-learned, Government
|
| Summary: |
ECRN (European Civil Registry Network) is a project funded in the EC initiative, Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Program for Competitive and Innovation.
The ECRN project is striving to become the European Service Platform for the Civil Registry with the establishment of an ECR_Platform among the Civil Acts Registries of National Administrations. It is implementing an ... Read More |
|
89 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Feb 25, 2010 |
|
|
|
| Source: |
Financial Times |
| Source Date: |
Monday, February 08, 2010 |
| Focus: |
E-government, Best practices and lessons-learned, Government
|
| Summary: |
"The Greek situation - and it is not over - is a wake-up call for French policymakers," said Charles Wyplosz, professor of economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. "The fiscal crisis is a golden opportunity to do unpopular things," he added.
Calls for France to adopt a German-style medium-term budgetary balance law are also becoming louder withi ... Read More |
|
35 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Feb 09, 2010 |
|
|
|
| Source: |
http://www.crossroad-eu.net |
| Source Date: |
Monday, February 01, 2010 |
| Focus: |
E-government, Best practices and lessons-learned, Government
|
| Summary: |
The CROSSROAD project (http://www.crossroad-eu.net), a Support Action funded by the European Commission within the Research Framework Programme, lasting the whole of 2010 and aiming at delivering a Research Roadmap on ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling, which will be supported by the contribution of the results deriving from other FP7 projects in this domain and by the involvement of the rese ... Read More |
|
423 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Feb 01, 2010 |
|
|
|
| Source: |
http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC54327.pdf |
| Source Date: |
Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| Focus: |
E-government, Best practices and lessons-learned, Government
|
| Summary: |
The European Commission JRC, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) released a comprehensive report on social and economic implications of Social Computing [aka Web2.0, social media]. |
|
691 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Dec 04, 2009 |
|
|
|
| Source: |
Financial Times |
| Source Date: |
Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| Focus: |
E-government, Best practices and lessons-learned, Government
|
| Summary: |
Chris Flood. . London (UK): Oct 19, 2009. pg. 28
Abstract (Summary)
This would take cumulative net borrowing to pound(s)81bn halfway through the current financial year, on track to meet Chancellor Alistair Darling's forecast of pound(s)175bn for 2009-10.
Amit Kara, economist at UBS, says fears over the UK's fiscal position have been "overplayed", but he also warns that economic ... Read More |
|
210 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Oct 20, 2009 |
|
|
|
| Source: |
Financial Times |
| Source Date: |
Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
| Focus: |
E-government, Best practices and lessons-learned, Government
|
| Summary: |
"I don't think it should be used as a means of pressure," Mr [Stavros Dimas] said, arguing that instead poor countries should be offered finance to help them to tackle climate change.
"We have to find a way to answer the concerns of Poland and other countries," Mr Dimas said.
Yet even those who question such a tax have argued that the mere threat of it could give wealth ... Read More |
|
251 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Oct 16, 2009 |
|
|
|
| Source: |
Financial Times |
| Source Date: |
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 |
| Focus: |
E-government, Best practices and lessons-learned, Government
|
| Summary: |
Gordon Brown, the prime minister, argues early cuts risk throttling economic growth and portrays Mr [George Osborne] as a "heartless" small-state ideologue who would slash spending and damage public services.
He also told the City of London it could face higher taxes. If taxpayer aid that should be going into strengthening balance sheets was diverted into bigger pay and bonuses, he w ... Read More |
|
245 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Oct 16, 2009 |
|
|
|
| Source: |
Bloomberg |
| Source Date: |
Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| Focus: |
E-government, Best practices and lessons-learned, Government
|
| Summary: |
Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private bank says more rich foreigners are inquiring about moving to Switzerland, spurred by rising taxes at home and concerns about the erosion of banking secrecy for non-residents.
|
|
405 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Sep 03, 2009 |
|
|