As the world re-arms, should we treat our public service with more respect?
By Gareth Hutchens

If the world is re-arming, shouldn't we boosting funding for the public service?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-27/as-the-world-rearms-should-we-treat-public-service-with-respect/105219286

As the world re-arms, should we treat our public service with more respect?
By Gareth Hutchens

If the world is re-arming, shouldn't we boosting funding for the public service?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-27/as-the-world-rearms-should-we-treat-public-service-with-respect/105219286

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

@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

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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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

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/eu-os-community-led-proof-of-concept-for-a-free-operating-system-for-the-eu-public-sector/

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!

https://lu.ma/xm4sg0dc

Our May event in York is gonna be awesome

Wie können Unternehmen und Behörden sicher und datenschutzkonform kommunizieren? Mit OpenTalk!

In unserem Whitepaper erfahren Sie, wie Benutzerintegration und volle Datenhoheit Ihre Kommunikation optimieren können.

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.

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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

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/

#Canada should immediately create a special visa for all scientists in #academia and the #publicsector who were employed in #America as of January 20th, American or not. This would be the best way to secure our #economy from the illegal US #tarrifs. #cdnpoli #polcan #science #CDC #NIH #FEMA #NOAA