Public service learning institutions have a responsibility to support overall government foreign policy and development assistance objectives to improve governance and public sector management abroad. Building democracy, and the strengthening of democratic institutions at home, requires participation in their strengthening abroad. The development of global governing institutions, and a professional, ethical international public service, strengthens domestic governance and provides international career opportunities. Enhancing policy capacity in the public service requires that managers gain international experience in dealing with cross-cutting and cross- cultural issues.Different cultural and economic environments stimulate different solutions to similar problems. Sharing through international networks is important for innovation. The ability to develop a future public service that is capable of managing, developing policy and making decisions in a horizontal manner requires experience working outside the vertical, domestic power structure.Human resource renewal, including recruitment, retention and learning, necessitates giving public servants learning opportunities in the more complex international environment. International institutions and agreements are multiplying. They require a high level of specialized technical expertise which needs to be shared more effectively among country governments.Managers of the public service internationally need to know what strategies and policies are most effective in other jurisdictions in a real time manner to deliver effective and efficient services that meet the needs of their citizens. Public Service has become transnational and global. Crime, poverty, pollution and disease are border less and require international cooperation to solve.Populations are expanding and aging. Demographic shifts require previously unimagined solutions. Jurisdictions that are dealing with these problems earlier can pass on their lessons learned to others in the international system.A knowledge economy requires not only innovation and ingenuity to solve problems of industry, trade and commerce but also international cooperation to more quickly take advantage of new information technologies to facilitate knowledge transfer to raise the quality of life for the common good in a framework of sustainable development. No one country can solve the environmental crisis by acting in isolation. Climate change mitigating strategies, for example, require concerted public policy action across nations and hemispheres.As the institutions mandated to prepare the public service management cadre of the future, learning institutions themselves require the opportunity to learn from their international colleagues and teach from their own experience in order to adopt and/or adapt the most effective strategies for learning.A new definition of leadership must be imparted to public servants but the characteristics of a good leader will be defined by international, not national, competencies. Globalization and the knowledge age require CCMD and their counterparts to integrate global and comparative knowledge into the core curriculum for managers to compare and evaluate their practices and acquire global experience and cross-cultural skills.

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