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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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  20. More about Mastodon C at http://blog.mastodonc.com/
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  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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  68. www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/education-department-launches-2013-investing-innovation-competition
  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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  71. www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/dhs/centrelink
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  74. Ibid.
  75. www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2012/07/17/mobile-phone-access-reaches-three-quarters-planets-population
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  77. http://internationalbudget.org/blog/2013/09/16/using-mobile-phones-to-fix-the-holes-in-local-government/
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  93. There is an excellent discussion of the topic in the RAND Corporation’s 2014 research paper ‘H4cker5 Wanted: An examination of the cyber security labor market’ by Martin C. Libicki, David Senty, Julia Pollak
  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.
  97. www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/improving/preparing-for-the-new-civil-service-competency-framework
  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
  99. www.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Civil-Service-Competency-Framework-July-2012.pdf
  100. http://soc.kuleuven.be/io/onderzoek/project/files/hrm27-country-report-korea.pdf
  101. Stacey Dietsch et al., McKinsey Center for Government, May 2013
  102. Managing Competencies in Government: State of the Art Practices and Issues at Stake for the Future
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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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