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Ipsos Mori's new Understanding Society is all about open policy making and includes a star turn from our head, Maria Nyberg, on Northern Futures.
This year's World Development Report from the World Bank is about basing development policy on what we know about how people think and make decisions.
Rebecca McCartney from DCLG reports back from a day on the Design Leadership Programme.
Imran Khan of the British Science Association on why policy making needs to understand public attitudes to antibiotic resistance.
Greg Hoyna from the Scottish Government on how he set up a user research lab - for under £3,500.
Naomi Stanford on simplicity in organisations (thanks @DWPDigital!).
Alistair Stoddart of Demsoc: a digital democracy potentialist.
Nesta's Long and Short magazine tracks the history of the lab revolution.
Simon Burall asks whether we should set up Participation Labs for public engagement.
The Stanford Social Innovation Review on systems leadership.
Joeri van den Steenhoven introduces the report from May's conference on Labs and System Change.
Innovation in the Los Angeles public sector, by Jes Howen McBride (HT @idealane).
The White House is putting together a toolkit for citizen science and crowdsourcing.
Tweets of the week
Maude: we couldn't have done #opendata without brilliant civil servants. @ifgevents
— James Norris (@iceiceclimber) December 11, 2014
"Focus on three areas: Open up e.g. citizen polls. Join up, e.g. cross silos. Smarten up e.g. internal skills." @alanwbrown #digileaders
— Dominic Mason (@dom_mason) December 10, 2014
What makes John Manzoni go 'bah humbug!'? 'When I read a long piece of paper, get to the end, and can’t understand what it’s telling me.'
— Matt Ross (@mattrosswrites) December 10, 2014
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