Open these: links for open policy makers (week 12)
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...
How civil servants learn to stop worrying and love Twitter
...a bit of lurking (reading but not participating) before setting up an account on a new channel, and definitely before I start being active. Part of successfully using social media...
Open these: links for open policy makers (week 11)
...science. Anna Schurmann: does innovation work better from inside or outside the organisation? Charles Leadbetter for Nominet on how the web is helping to make us better. Tom Hulme from...
Introducing the Ministry of Justice Policy Hub
...to those due to attend so they can begin to consider the matter and make an initial link with other attendees. The design of the Hub will continue to iterate...
Open these: links for open policy makers (week 10)
...how the next generation will use technology and innovative funding mechanisms (including the UK's Social Impact Bonds) to tackle society's 'wicked issues'. Eric Barker on the ten characteristics of creative...
Health and Safety... digitally enhanced
...my old boss used to say ‘steal with pride’! But you need to learn to walk before you can run off and start designing new whizzy online tools and products....
Open these: links for open policy makers (week 9)
...join the conversation on Twitter! #openpolicy Links (will open in new tabs) Labcraft: a co-created book exploring successful innovation labs. Dominic Campbell from Futuregov says we need a new...
Am I not a people? - A policy maker's view on public dialogue
...and grew up. I was confident I had a good idea of how the session would go and the ideas and issues the people attending would bring forward. I nodded...
Policy Lab news: second project, working with the Ministry of Justice
A couple of weeks ago, friends of Policy Lab gathered together to celebrate progress on the Lab's first project - and made a surprise announcement of the second major project! Read on to find out what we'll be doing with …
"The buzziest and most creative meeting I've ever been to": Policy Lab's digitisation workshop
...great ideas for improving services to victims of crime, from an online skills academy where people could go to learn how to prevent crime to an online court where you...