EPA’s 2023 funding takes a baby step toward rebuilding the agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding in the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act finally begins to address years of declining EPA resources and stagnant funding that resulted in a 2021 Agency budget that was half the size, in real dollars, of 40 years ago; a Washington Post report earlier this yearContinue Reading

Rebuilding public infrastructure with digital capabilities post-COVID

Agencies should seize the opportunity to the opportunity to reimagine and expand possibilities for public infrastructure. Ryan Oakes, Accenture Public Service global managing director, and Mark Lyons, managing director for Accenture Public Service in Europe, discuss the need to rebuild public infrastructure with digital capabilities In many countries around theContinue Reading

Rebuilding trust in a less trusting environment

In the wake of lockdowns, enforced isolation and border closures as the cost of controlling COVID-19 in Australia, many of us find ourselves in a new kind of trust crisis. Pandemic-related interventions have forced us to live with a version of “stranger-danger”. We were constantly reminded to keep apart andContinue Reading