Mowat Centre work

Looking back at the Mowat centre, it some interesting work.

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Policymaking for the Sharing Economy

Beyond Whack-A-Mole

Feb 16 2015 https://mowatcentre.ca/policymaking-for-the-sharing-economy/

This report looks at the public policy questions raised by the sharing economy and makes recommendations on how governments should approach these new marketplaces.

Across the economy, informal and lightly-regulated marketplaces are emerging that directly connect individuals and small businesses. New technology platforms such as Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit are accelerating the advent of the “sharing economy” with rapid speed and massive scale. This report looks at the public policy questions raised by the sharing economy and makes recommendations on how governments should approach these new marketplaces.

Reprogramming Government for the Digital Era

Nov 11 2014 https://mowatcentre.ca/reprogramming-government-for-the-digital-era/

This Shifting Gears report explores the promise and perils of digital technologies for the core functions of governments.

The Shifting Gears series reviews the trends and challenges facing governments in delivering high-quality public services in times of fiscal constraint. Today’s public servants face a challenging operating environment. Governments are implementing ambitious reforms to service delivery models and administrative systems, while also undertaking short-term cost cutting and revenue raising measures. Yet this agenda also presents government with a significant opportunity to re-envision a public service for the 21st century. Transformative efforts—aimed at providing better quality services with fewer resources—are coalescing around a number of broad trends:

• the move to citizen-centred services re-designed around the needs of the end user. 

• the sharing of responsibility for policy development and service delivery with new partners from the private and not-for-profit sectors.

• the adoption of new digital technologies that lower transaction costs and respond to evolving citizen expectations of how to interact with government.

• the integration of operations both within and across government departments.

• the evaluation of services on the basis of outcomes rather than process or method.

Future State 2030

Nov 05 2013 https://mowatcentre.ca/future-state-2030/

The global megatrends shaping governments

This report outlines global megatrends facing world governments between today and 2030, and highlights necessary transformative changes and appropriate strategies required for successfully responding to these megatrends.

Foreword

Major global forces taking shape today will significantly impact the business landscape for the public and private sector through to 2030. While global megatrends have been documented on a macro scale, KPMG International wanted to delve more deeply into the implications for national governments and public sector policy makers and thus engaged the Mowat Centre at the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, to conduct targeted research. What we found will help guide important conversations over the next few years.

The findings identify nine global megatrends that are most salient to the future of governments and their core responsibilities of economic prosperity, security, social cohesion and environmental sustainability. While their individual impacts will be far-reaching, the trends are highly interrelated. Therefore, governments will need to consider an evaluate their impacts both in isolation and in combination. We present possible options for governments to consider using the core tools available – policy, regulation and programs – as well as the strategies, structures and skills that future governments will need to have in place to achieve the characteristics of a ‘leading practice’ government in the future.