...tagging our friends on Facebook, we have been training the world’s cleverest machine-learning facial recognition programme. Data science - applying powerful new computer techniques to newer as well as...
I’m off to speak at Open Data Manchester this evening about both how open data and open working can make better policy. I thought I’d share some of the tools...
...person we work with or user we talk to teaches us something new. We’re keeping hooked into fresh thinking and learning by collaborating with students in other universities. The RCA...
...I thought “we should do more of that”! "What on earth is an evidence safari?” you might ask. Its not half as exotic as it sounds. You pretty much remain...
...evidence was used by users and stakeholders at an ideation workshops where they came up with the idea for a new ‘well in work’ service. Policy is not developed in...
...robust and more practical. At the end of the workshop we pitched our best idea to the group and fielded their difficult questions. The next step is to choose the...
...workshops we ran for Foresight’s Future of an Ageing Population project - where the world we were thinking about was actually 2040. By 2040, 30% of the population are going...
...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...
...with. It imagines a number of possible futures and creates objects and artefacts which might be present in them as a way of provoking debate about the future. These alternative...
...a dozen more, and have come up with some great ideas. One of those is a better letter. A online, digital process is of course planned for the future. Ideas...