https://www.europesays.com/uk/22851/ Steve Loftus: A national pension fund offers a Conservative solution to a looming crisis #Business #Finance #Investment #PensionTripleLock #Pensioners #Pensions #PensionsAndRetirement #PersonalFinance #PublicSector #PublicSpending #UK #UnitedKingdom
Reduzierung der Abhängigkeit von Softwareanbietern: Die Marktanalyse des Bundes zeigt Strategien für mehr digitale Souveränität in der Verwaltung. Fokus auf Open Source, offene Standards und Diversifizierung von IT-Lösungen.
https://www.cio.bund.de/SharedDocs/downloads/Webs/CIO/DE/digitale-loesungen/marktanalyse-reduzierung-abhaengigkeit-software-anbieter.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2
#DigitaleSouveränität #OpenSource #ITStrategie #DigitaleVerwaltung #PublicSector #OpenGovernment #CIOBund #unplugtrump
@mloxton And not only in the Trump regime, but these kinds of people - DOGE for example - are out there in the private sector in droves, telling themselves that they are efficient and competent, and super, and mostly the dismal reality of their skillset remains hidden. Now we can see their work product publicly, and what a load of codswallop, what a myth, that the private sector is smart, efficient, well run. #PrivateSector #PublicSector #Incompetence #USPol
Most public servant attrition comes from services, national security roles
By Maani Truu
Government administration experts have warned that while it is possible to shrink the public service through natural attrition, it would be difficult to avoid impacting service delivery.
NSW public sector offices can't accommodate workers, unions say
NSW public sector workers are being consulted on their willingness to work "principally" in an approved office after a memo from the NSW premier's department directed employees away from work-from-home.
'I don't believe them': Barr criticises Coalition public service policy
By Patrick Bell
The federal opposition's assurance it won't pursue forced redundancies to reduce the size of the public service is met with scepticism from its political opponents in the ACT.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-07/act-coalition-work-from-home-policy-backflip/105145608
Hi @alvar
Ich freue mich stets, wenn du SQL als Nonplusultra anzweifelst. Ich konnte meine eigene Kritik daran bislang selbst nie richtig in Worte fassen, und jetzt finde ich https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/ und bin ganz aus dem Häuschen!
Kanntest du den Text? Gibt es mehr solcher durchexerzierten Kritik am SQL Paradigma, die du vielleicht kennst?
Ich finde das Thema immernoch wichtig, gerade im Feld #PublicSector.
Wenn du mehr weißt, lass es mich gerne wissen.
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Coalition commits extraordinary about-face on 'end' to work from home
By Jake Evans and Stephanie Dalzell
A Coalition promise to send public servants back to the office has been jettisoned, and plans to cut 41,000 Commonwealth jobs walked back significantly, in a mid-campaign backflip.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-06/coalition-abandon-work-from-home-41000-jobs/105144090
Coalition softens plan to force public servants back into office
By Maani Truu
Peter Dutton has partially walked back his party's plan to force federal public servants back into the office full time, now saying the edict will only apply to Canberra-based workers.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-05/dutton-walks-back-public-service-wfh-plan/105141758
EU OS: Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a free Operating System for the EU public sector
EU OS is a Proof-of-Concept for the deployment of a Fedora-based Linux operating system with a KDE Plasma desktop environment in a typical public sector organisation. Other organisations with similar requirements or less strict requirements may also ...continues
Public sector delivery managers!
Set yourself an alarm for 1055 Tuesday 8 April, as the last 80 DeliverCon tickets will be released 5 minutes later!
Our May event in York is gonna be awesome 
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Mehr zu unserem Whitepaper erfahren Sie hier: https://opentalk.eu/de/news/sichere-video-konferenzen-fuer-unternehmen-und-verwaltung
Fancy chatting with fellow people interested in making the public sector better?
There's a midweek meetup for you!
Come join this week's OneTeamGov Wednesday meetup (virtual) https://lu.ma/8eam8s4i
HELP! Please 'Like' my latest post on LinkedIn, about how to build trust in public services in an AI-driven world. #ContentDesign #DigitalGovernment #AIEthics #PublicSector
#AI #Technology
Building trust in AI governmen...
"Demos, not memos" is one of our mantras for #FWD50 2025.
On April 15, we're diving deep into Product Management for government, featuring alumni from #18F sharing what might have been.
Learn how product thinking yields incredible results in public service.
Register now: https://access.fwd50.com/feed
Municipalities across 
Europe struggle with internal coordination, complaints & maintenance — especially when relying on emails and spreadsheets.
Our new blog post shows how OpenProject is used as a digital ticket system in the public sector, based on the example of a 
German city administration:
https://www.openproject.org/blog/ticket-management-city-administration/
Europen Union creates Fedora-based Linux distribution for the public sector
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/eu-os-bold-step-toward-digital-sovereignty-europe
@m0bi I'd much rather see more attempts to unite the different fragmented efforts to bring #linux and #oss to more of #publicsector. I.e. projects in regional government and say #osor (https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/)
Driving digital transformation in Public Administration: How the Capital of Culture 2025 uses OpenProject
Anyone who was present at the Chemnitz Linux Days can see that there is something going on with regard to Open Source in the European Capital of Culture 2025!
How Chemnitz is leveraging OpenProject to manage hundreds of projects efficiently while ensuring transparency and collaboration: https://www.openproject.org/blog/city-chemnitz-interview/
