GAO 2018-2023 Strategic Plan: Trends Affecting Government and Society

Excerpt from report:
“For nearly 100 years, the U.S. Government Accountability Office has stood at the vanguard of the U.S. government’s efforts to ensure government accountability and effectiveness. To help support these efforts, GAO publishes a strategic plan every 4 years that emphasizes consideration of future issues that may affect the federal government and society as a whole.”

• Qualitative methods used
• Environmental scanning used

Drivers mentioned include:

• New types of security threats from increasing global volatility
• Long-term fiscal unsustainability of federal government
• Divergent growth rates of national and global economies
• Technology is changing the nature of work
• Demographics are shifting in ways that affect U.S. society and the economy.
• Five emerging technologies will potentially transform society.
• Increasing complexity of governance relationships and practices
• Competition between natural resource development and sustainabiltity

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