A new report ‘Navigating the crisis’ by the International Public Policy Observatory, examines how governments and stakeholders, used intelligence to handle the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects.
The report makes recommendations on how governments, and stakeholders could improve their ability to organise intelligence for a range of future challenges, ranging from pandemics to climate change. Based on an in-depth analysis into;
- the types of intelligence used,
- how this intelligence was communicated,
- the role of relationships across a variety of scales,
- the challenges of synthesis,
- synthesis for understanding and action,
- the organisation of the intelligence,
- and lastly, the report looks beyond covid-19 at the role of government intelligence in the future.
The study draws on dozens of interviews with senior officials, with a range of examples of data uses and lessons identified, from many countries including the UK.
