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Singapore has embraced foresight thinking and set up a Centre for Strategic Futures in the Prime Minister’s Office to create a “strategically agile” public service. Other governments are now following suit.

Privacy and tech experts say that governments must be agile in creating laws to protect their citizens from ethically dubious applications of artificial intelligence (AI).

"That presents risks for the future viability of New Zealand's public broadcasting operators, RNZ and TVNZ, and the Government needs to address those risks."

Banking in New Zealand and Australia is extremely profitable because it's dominated by four large banks. This is a very small number of big competitors for such a large combined market. The history of why there are so few big banks is for another time, but suffice it to say it's a structure that has suited the Australian and New Zealand governments and banks alike for decades. It has led to stable, but very expensive, banking services.

Compared to Drummond, he adds, Baird is "slightly harder to sell just because he hasn't been a CEO. His experience in senior management outside government has been relatively short".

“Our revenue is roughly a 50-50 split between public and private sectors,” Levin said. The public split includes contracts with state-level agencies and governments overseas.

China has lent vast sums of money to African governments and built ports, roads, airports and bridges around the continent as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. The projects include a 300-mile, $4 billion railway in Kenya that has linked Nairobi and Mombasa.

Nearly 160 years later, those problems persist. “Poverty is still present,” Ly says. “It’s clear that there are parallels.” Montfermeil’s poverty rate is around 30%, according to government statistics. This was the site of some of the intense violence in 2005, during weeks of nationwide rioting in poor minority suburbs; the protests first erupted in the suburb next to Montfermeil, after two teenage boys died by electrocution while hiding from police.

That company went into liquidation in 2016 and the waste sat in the old paper mill until a deal was cut last year between the government and local councils to move the waste from the Mataura mill and other sites over six years.

“One of the main problems in the U.S. is healthcare costs,” Devesa said. “The government is spending more than $1 trillion on social security, medicare, and medicaid, and MedWhat helps people to use technology to save time and money.”

Swalwell accepted cryptocurrency donations briefly during his run, while Yang also called for a national regulatory framework to address questions around how the government would approach the space and supersede potentially contradictory state-level regulations.

"We will be taking a methodical and planned approach to this. We are keeping our shareholder, the Government, fully informed," he said.