Welcome to Government Transformed 2.0, a podcast series by Global Government Forum.
In this series, Richard Johnstone, the executive editor at Global Government Forum and Australian economist Nicholas Gruen look at the story of the history of government transformation, and what lies ahead.
In conversations with a public service experts, Richard and Nicholas will reflect on the work of internationally acclaimed Government 2.0 taskforce in Australia, which in 2010 set out a landmark vision for how the work of government could be transformed by technology.
These conversations will look at how much progress has been made in making the most of digital to transform the work of government.
This first episode rewinds the clock back to 2010, when Nicholas chaired the Government 2.0 Taskforce. This first episode will look discuss what Government 2.0 was: its guiding principles, its findings, how well it has stood the test of time, and what about it could use a systems update.
Joining us for this episode are Laura Gilbert, visiting professor in practice at the school of public policy at the London School of Economics, and senior director of AI and Head of the AI for Government program at the Tony Blair Institute, and Tom Burton, journalist and former government editor at The Australian Financial Review.