Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises make up about 95% of businesses in Paraguay, yet historically received less than 9% of public contracting spend. Many smaller businesses struggled to find ...

Apprenticeships can create incredible opportunities — but the journey isn't always easy. There may be deadlines, workplace pressures, difficult feedback, competing responsibilities, assessment nerves ...

Digital transformation is often understood as the automation of services, the digitisation of paper-based documents, or the migration of government processes to online platforms. Yet in social ...

A fictional 2030 federal court case invites public servants to examine where accountable human judgment must remain. I recently joined the Apolitical community and would welcome perspectives from ...

The Ombudsperson's Office is responsible for analysing thousands of citizen submissions each year, many of which contain complex narratives, allegations of irregularities, requests for public services ...

Public service organisations generate vast amounts of knowledge every day. Policies, meeting notes, research papers, operational guidance, programme evaluations, ministerial briefings and ...

Completing an apprenticeship teaches you far more than what's written in the qualification standard. Looking back on the journey, three lessons stand out to me as particularly important for apprentice ...

_This post is written by Diana Alarcón, Eduardo Zepeda, Juan Angel Martínez, Juan Carlos Molina and Marco Antonio Ramírez at the Coordinacion de Asesores y Asuntos Internacionales del Gobierno de la ...

This article is written by Jennifer Guay. Innovation labs may be everywhere, but few can claim to have had a lasting effect on a whole public service. Denmark’s MindLab was different. From its LabRats ...

This article is written by Jeanette Kwek and Seema Gail Parkash, Head and Deputy Head, Centre for Strategic Futures, Singapore. “We are not only living in a world of accelerating changes but also of ...

As part of the recently launched Government AI Campus, Apolitical is publishing a series of articles exploring AI adoption in government. These articles take on many forms, from op-eds written by ...