"An era where governments have less power."
The leader of Britain's Conservative Party says we're entering a new era — where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and people...
"Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open?"
Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can — and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to...
Conflict is bad; compromise, consensus and collaboration are good — or so we're told. Lawyer and bioethicist Jonathan Marks challenges this conventional wisdom, showing how governments can jeopardize...
This podcast gives an overview of key instruments of support, the pros and cons of using these, how and why governments use these instruments, and the pre-requisites and precautions involved; along...
Governments have supported PPPs through a variety of instruments such as equity, debt, grants, guarantees, and contractual clauses pertaining to risk allocation. Many of these instruments have been...
In an age of rapid urbanization, the delivery of quality public services by local governments will become more difficult and critical at the same time. The potential for e-Government to help meet...
This series highlights initiatives led by the World Bank Group’s Governance global practice and by private sector organizations to utilize big data for effective governance. These interviews and...
With a population of 11.2 million residents, Sao Paulo is the largest City in Brazil, the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere and the world's seventh largest city by population. The presentation...
The WB has recently developed a knowledge product to guide cloud computing adoption and conducted pilot studies for three developing countries. This webinar will share the findings and lesson learned...
The webinar discusses whether the fiscal decentralization model that has been instrumental in decisions about structuring governance on a nationwide basis can be applied successfully in metropolitan...
Charity Wayua put her skills as a cancer researcher to use on an unlikely patient: the government of her native Kenya. She shares how she helped her government drastically improve its process for...
Why doesn’t the government just get out of the way and let the private sector — the “real revolutionaries” — innovate? It’s rhetoric you hear everywhere, and Mariana Mazzucato wants to dispel it. In...
"What can governments learn from the open-data revolution?"
In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness — connecting...
For the past 10 years, the government of Burundi has engaged in a decentralization process to strengthen social cohesion and empower local communities. Most of Burundi's local administrations, or "...
This note is the fifth in a series of notes on developing a comprehensive policy, legal, and institution framework for public-private partnership (PPP) programs. This series is extracted from a PPIAF...
Nearly 2.4b people worldwide lack a legal identity, they're usually the poorest members of society, and a quarter are children. They're often excluded from school, healthcare, welfare and banking...