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The new Super Apps should not only provide to submit complaints. They also come up with interactive spaces for the public to be involved in designing and supervising government policy.
The New Zealand government is set to introduce sweeping reforms to the country’s health system. But without changes in how the system is funded, will the reforms achieve their goals?
The deaths of huge numbers of the elderly in our care homes due to COVID-19 made clear the need to integrate our health and social care services. Here’s what needs to be done.
New evidence from Somalia points to effective ways to deliver public services in conflict-affected and fragile contexts.
By scrapping the requirement, the Indonesian government can improve equality of access to basic services and protections that are sorely needed now and in the post-pandemic future.
In Indonesia, village administrations are the closest to the community and in the best position to help citizens.
Who can see your information and why is it important to take part?
Public participation increased the quality and quantity of some public services, though not in all sectors, and some services were affected more than others.
Recent survey results show the Australian public is becoming more satisfied with the federal public services.
Five years ago, communities in Italy and Greece volunteered to help migrants and refugees. Now that solidarity has disappeared. Why?
The airline operates almost two in five of the UK’s domestic routes.
Public and community-owned websites and apps that value morality over profit could revitalise online culture.
Reforms to the way local authorities are funded are probably the most radical – and least discussed – changes made by the Conservative government.
A recent damning report on probation shows the need to reassess outsourcing by the public sector.
The concept of Universal Credit reveals something wider about the UK’s current political fixation on debt.
New research shows how the charity sector has been sidelined in the Transforming Rehabilitation programme.
The former Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex argues that more resources can help, but any available funds need to be spent by the right agencies in the right way.
Governments have started to see automation as the key to brighter urban futures. But what will this look like?
Years after their trials, he got in touch with the victims he thought he had helped. They described feeling ‘dumped’ by the system.
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