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Good Governance: Microsoft through Better Place App is looking for 10,000 good deeds in Czech Republic
Better Place app is part of the Microsoft campaign #Upgrade Your World, running to promote the launch of Windows 10. The aim of this Czech campaign is to find 10,000 good deeds and support Better Place, which does good things every day. Better Place (an app and website) is a social responsibility pl...
Competitiveness: Employment issues: Czech ways to overcome labor market shortages. Surveys, trends (updated)
Czech businesses are finding ways to overcome talent/skills gap; some of them run their own schools and training centres, some provide initial work experience to socially excluded youth and some reach out to physically handicapped..Read more here and here. In an interview for the Zet.cz radio, dir...
Good Governance: Oživení: Prague 8 as example of transparency of municipality-owned business
Prague 8, a 100% owner of the thermal power administration company Správa tepelného hospodářství followed guidelines of the anti-corruption NGO Oživení when writing its articles of association. The example of good practice are the parts of the text related to information disclosure and public proc...
Politics: Greece and the eurozone reach bailout deal
On 11 August, the expert representatives of both Greece and its eurozone creditors reached an agreement on the basic parameters of the third Greek bailout program. When last details were settled, the Greek parliament voted on the deal, as well as on a set of first preconditions for its launch, on ...
Competitiveness: Radio Prague: New hybrid footwear gets toe-hold in market
Is it a sock or a shoe? The most accurate answer is probably a bit of both: new footwear called Skinners, developed by young law school graduate Petr Procházka. The design caught the attention of many fans and is in the middle of a successful crowdfunding campaign. The benefit of wearing the hybri...
Strategic Directions for Czech Economic Policy
- Transition to High-Tech Manufacturing and Exports
- The City Campus as Idea Factory
- Government Programs and Processes That Drive Innovation
- Government as a Competitive Advantage, including Digitization
Advocacy Priorities for 2023
Technology, People, Infrastructure
Actions Recommended in Areas:
1. Establishing Policy Objectives for Research.
2. Research Investment and Cooperation. Big Bets (Key Technology Projects).
3. Establishing Databases for Tracking Public Policy Outcomes.
4. Public Procurement as an Innovation Tool.
5. Immigration of STEM Talents.
6. Digitization of Immigration.
7. Adult Reskilling and Upskilling.
8. Digitization of Land Use.
9. Infrastructure Development, including Technology Parks.
Read the documents in English and Czech.
Policy pipeline
In Policy Pipeline policy developments in the Czech Republic and abroad are monitored to bring better understanding of current topics and trends.