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How we’re helping share ideas on northern growth

Posted by: Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on: 24 September 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
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...northern cities into vibrant, innovative hubs to stoke growth across the whole region to come forward and share them. It will culminate in a summit in Leeds in November to...

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Are you confident you are producing world-class advice?

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Posted on: 22 September 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques, Thought Pieces
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...makers across the civil service is, what are you doing to open yourself to the best thinking outside of the civil service?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58UGK1u2YmY   If this has piqued your...

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Open these: links for open policy makers (week 15)

Posted by: Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on: 19 September 2014 - Categories: Start the week
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...for the New Yorker on how Utah used social innovation to tackle homelessness (via @LeadbeaterCh).   Tweets of the week   https://twitter.com/Fitzdigitaldwp/status/512248313656406017     https://twitter.com/johnmaeda/status/512224698663317504     Disclaimer: links are...

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Lack of curiosity kills innovation

Posted by: Christian Bason, Posted on: 19 September 2014 - Categories: Thought Pieces
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...project in which one of the absolutely key people in the partner organisation did not want to allow either its users or his own employees to be involved in the...

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The Data Science in Government programme: progress so far

Posted by: Madeleine Greenhalgh, Posted on: 18 September 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings
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...analysts in the accelerator programme who will sit alongside our data scientists in GDS. We intend to increase our engagement both internally and externally to help develop our thinking on...

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Open these: links for open policy makers (week 14)

Posted by: Rachel Pascual, Posted on: 12 September 2014 - Categories: Start the week
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Welcome to Open these, a regular post dedicated to the blogs, reports and discussions from the week we think open policy practitioners will enjoy.

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Being open with evidence at DfID

Posted by: John Adams, Posted on: 10 September 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings
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...we committed to publishing more of the evidence that supports policy making. Many Departments are now considering how they can improve their use of evidence and the transparency of policy...

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Open these: links for open policy makers (week 13)

Posted by: Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on: 5 September 2014 - Categories: Start the week
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Welcome to Open these, a regular post dedicated to the blogs, reports and discussions from the week we think open policy practitioners will enjoy. Leave the authors a comment or...

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Policy Lab goes back to school

Posted by: Cat Drew, Posted on: 4 September 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Thought Pieces
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...to buy something. So we created something with value – a map of local landmarks – which we could sell, with some local currency thrown in. Sketching has a real...

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If a tree falls in a wood

Posted by: Thom Townsend, Posted on: 3 September 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Thought Pieces
Logos of some of the work the Partnerships Team has helped broker with businesses, including the GREAT campaign, National Citizen Service, and Make Things Do Stuff

...OPM ed.]. But, OPM is what this team is doing all the time; working inside government, outside of government and across the two, sharing information and insight and creating collaboration....

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