Do we really need a meeting?
My-oh-my, we policy-makers do love meetings. And rightly so. They are a great way to bring people in, build consensus and seek challenge. But have we thought deeply enough about...
Search results for World We Want
"How do I do open policy making?": imagining an OPM toolkit
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Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques
...policy makers and ‘what is the user need?’ When we know what people need from an open policy toolkit, what information they want, how they want it presented to them,...
Reflections on education, skills and forecasting futures
...future, exploring what they do want, don’t want and the trade offs they are likely to make. On 23 May, we ran a workshop with Strange Telemetry and Superflux to...
Welcome to the Policy Lab
...of innovation teams bringing new approaches to Government. We’ve received a lot of interest already from around the world to share our thinking and we also welcome others getting in...
Designing a toolkit for policy makers
...visits. Since we launched the toolkit in April we haven’t stood still. We’ve been working hard on how to improve it both in terms of content and design. We’re launching...
Cards toolkit to help generate ideas and develop your policy project in an agile way
...only are we not wasting money by creating things that the user doesn’t actually want, we are also identifying flaws really early on. Both avoid costly waste later, which is...
Policy making through possible futures
...range from a technological prototype (e.g. Bernd Hopfengaertner’s Belief Systems, 2009) to a set of storyboards explaining a future world (e.g. Jaemin Paik’s When we all live to 150, 2012)...
Ethnography in policymaking: Barriers and opportunities
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Dr Lucy Kimbell, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
...civil service. “We hope to get insights we wouldn’t get elsewhere and use them to create interventions we wouldn’t otherwise have thought of.” Barriers and challenges The culture within which...
A new operating model for government
Nudge. Digital. Wellbeing. Social Action. Open Data. Social Finance. User-centred design. Between five and ten years ago these ideas were at the fringes of conversations about how government could develop...
Open policy making: the new default?
...our ability to produce policy advice that is well-informed and creative will depend on how well we understand the world around us and our ability to engage with it. Open...