OPM Sprint event!
Today we are delighted to be co-hosting an event with colleagues from the Government Digital Service (GDS) to discuss Open Policy Making (OPM) and the importance of digital techniques to the policy process.
Fighting poverty by working with those most affected
DFID’s Innovation Hub team were faced with a challenge. They wanted to get ideas on poverty-related challenges from a broader range of people and understand those challenges from the perspective of the very people who were most affected by them. …
Planning for better neighbourhoods with the people who live there
The neighbourhood planning project is about the people who live in those neighbourhoods being in charge of the planning process. That means they decide where new developments should go and what they should look like. The Department for Communities and …
Two million people help set the Millennium Development Goals
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Beatrice Andrews, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques
In an example of Open Policy Making on a huge scale, almost 2 million people across 194 countries have been involved in defining the United Nation's (UN) Millennium Development Goals.
Opening up the energy debate
The Climate Change Act of 2008 committed the UK to cutting as much as 80% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (relative to 1990 levels). The Department of Energy and Climate Change was tasked with looking at how the country should make the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Reducing regulation through crowdsourcing and challenge
The Government believes that deregulation is central to economic growth. Whitehall has used regulation to achieve policy outcomes, so deregulating signalled an ambitious change of approach.
3 examples of open policy making from the OPM Conference
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Russell Barnes, Posted on:
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Events, Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques
...can see how it is relevant to them. It's obvious really but the best way is the simplest: using practical examples to explain both the concept and some of the...
Using design principles to imagine a different future for Southwark
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Beatrice Andrews, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques
Faced with a large budget cut, Southwark Council chose a radical open approach to decide what to prioritise and how to run its services. The team started by trying to get a better idea what local residents wanted, as well as what was and was not working.
Competing to get Europe back to work
What is the best way to find new ideas to solve old problems? In the face of a huge unemployment problem across Europe, the European Commission wanted to attract the brightest minds to come up with new solutions. In 2012 they decided to try a competition to see what response they would get.
Co-producing young people's services in Lambeth
The Children and Young People’s Services commissioning team at Lambeth Council sought to test the coproduction and co-commissioning of services in collaboration with the New Economics Foundation and the Youth Offending Service.