Peter F Brown

All around the world, governments at national, state, and local levels face huge pressure to do “more with less”. Whether their desire is: to raise educational standards to meet the needs of a global knowledge economy; to help our economies adjust to financial upheaval; to lift the world out of poverty when more than a billion people still live on less than a dollar a day; to facilitate the transition to a sustainable, inclusive, low-carbon society; to reduce taxation; or to cut back on public administration; every government faces the challenge of achieving their policy goals in a climate of increasing public expenditure restrictions.

The first deliverables from the OASIS "Transformational Government Framework" have now been published - see below

And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince