GEC NEWS WIREFocus on Education, Health and Social Services
In partnership with the Government Summit, Thomson Reuters will launch its report‘Innovation in Government Services’ highlighting innovative services, key trends and programmes offered by select governments, during the third summit which begins on February 9, 2015.
In the education sector, the key innovation themes cover innovations that are technology driven, process driven, as well as collaboration driven. A number of innovative government programs are being focused on addressing equal access to opportunity across income, race, and geography within the benchmark countries.
In case of healthcare, governments are responding to the challenge of shifts in population demographics and social characteristics through innovations covering effectiveness, cost, equity, and convenience.The report says that country’s health system spends more resources in preventing disease, rather than treating disease.
In terms of social services, rising unemployment trends across industries and communities poses another challenge to governments. In a time of unprecedented global interconnectivity, demographic shifts and socio-political movements, governments are under tremendous pressure to adapt to the changing needs of its populations in agile and efficient ways. Innovations that deliver new solutions to existing challenges in a sustainable commercial way were once the domain of high-tech start-ups.
