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3. Fortunately, governments can now track the progress of these potential pandemics through the World Health Organization’s Global Alert and Response, Disease Outbreak News Service, available at www.who.int/csr/don/en/index.html
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58. www.acus.gov/best-practices/success-story/tsas-ideafactory-the-next-generation-suggestion-box-for-the-front-line/
59. Open Collective Innovation, Some Case Examples by John Bessant and Joe Tidd, 2011, www.iande.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Case-examplesOpenCollectiveInnovation.pdf
60. Notably, a number of papers by Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, http://scholar.harvard.edu/alesina/publications
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69. For more details on the challenges faced by Service Canada, see Flumain, M., Coe, A., and Kernaghan, K, ‘Transforming service to Canadians: the Service Canada model’, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 73, No. 4, 2007: 557-68
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72. www.mof.gov.cy/mof/mof.nsf/page03_en/page03_en
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74. Ibid.
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76. http://government.ae/en/web/guest/mobile-government; http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2014/mar/31/uae-launches-worlds-first-smart-government-app-sto/
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94. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/reprogramming-government-a-conversation-with-mikey-dickerson/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
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96. Ibid.
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98. Managing Competencies in Government: State of the Art Practices and Issues at Stake for the Future, OECD, Sophie Op de Beeck, Annie Hondeghem, 2010
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101. Stacey Dietsch et al., McKinsey Center for Government, May 2013
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148. You can follow the progress of the government’s response here - http://ndrrmc.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1125:situational-report-re-preparations-for-typhoon-qyolandaq&catid=1:ndrrmc-update It is a highly instructive official account of a government’s response to a major disaster. All the related facts in the text are drawn from these reports
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