Merit Bill, Italy Senate: the merit-based reform of the public administration is now law. With the Senate’s final approval, Parliament has passed the bill strongly championed by Minister of Public Administration Paolo Zangrillo, which aims to reform the evaluation, career…
The public administration of the future? It is taking shape today, as described in the Randstad Research report “pa-rtire dal futuro. La trasformazione della pubblica amministrazione italiana”. (“Starting from the Future. The Transformation of the Italian Public Administration.” ). Just…
SDA Bocconi Public Administration: How can we attract young people—and in particular the most talented and dedicated to public service—to the public sector? SDA Bocconi has been working on this crucial issue for some time: in 2021, as part of…
An association of young professionals united by the goal of building a more forward-looking and inclusive country, which activates and trains today’s and tomorrow’s decision makers to catalyze a change in the country’s trajectory. This is Officine Italia, which has…
A direct democracy tool that allows citizens to report, ideate, and vote on improvement proposals for public spaces in their neighborhood and reference area; and to vote on the sectors deemed most important for the neighborhood’s public policies—urban greenery, mobility,…
Italian railway stations: modal exchange centers, where you can park your bicycle before taking the train, and upon arrival, reach the bus stop via protected pedestrian paths. Service hubs, not just commercial centers, useful in large cities for those who…
An Environmental Quality Analyst with the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), Courtney Fung works on hazardous waste sites to clean them up so they are usable or at least so they present less of an exposure risk…
Campaigns for social change and consumer brands are often reluctant bedfellows but Jo Hobbs and Maddie Smith are big believers in corporate matchmaking. Hobbs is chief executive of the British Youth Council (BYC), while Smith is U.K. managing director of…
This June, the Biden administration’s new two-year fellowship program to get technologists into the U.S. federal government launches its first cohort. For Caitlin Gandhi, co-founder of the U.S. General Services Administration’s U.S. Digital Corps, it is step one in a…
“Politics is basically how we as a society decide to set the rules and solve our biggest issues,” says Damian Boeselager, a 33-year-old member of the European parliament (MEP) who has represented pan-European party Volt since 2019. Together with two…