Hunting dinosaurs in government
Following Virpi's post earlier this week about the Change Agent Network in Finland, we're delighted to welcome Elke, Nancy and Joke on how they are fostering innovation in government in Belgium.
Examples and findings
People across the civil service, public and private sectors are delivering and working using Open Policy Making tools, techniques and design thinking. Here can read about their learnings and findings in the field.
How can we build a council of state that facilitates innovation?
Challenges and problems faced by our society cross all boundaries – attitudinal, professional and especially administrative. Matters under ministerial preparation today are becoming increasingly complex and interwoven. At the same time it has long been recognized, at least in Finland, …
Open Policy 2015: reflections
Well, as you will hopefully have seen on this blog, Open Policy 2015 is now done and dusted - and what a great week it was! We saw sessions on agile, Policy Lab, how to run a hackday, data science, …
Open Policy 2015: Prototyping in government workshop
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Dr Lucy Kimbell, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
A room full of people making Play-Doh shapes of ducks and monkeys might not seem an obvious way to start a conversation about prototyping in government. But opening the Open Policy 2015 prototyping workshop this way allowed the speaker, Andrea …
Open Policy 2015: BIS digital communications
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Marilyn Booth, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques
I was delighted to be asked to participate in Open Policy 2015 and talk about the work we do in BIS to encourage teams to build digital capability, and specifically how three teams have worked with online communities to extend their …
Open Policy 2015: Day 4
19 sessions and over 500 civil servants later, Open Policy 2015 is complete. After yesterday's rescheduled FCO talk on using social media, today we've had: What Works, from the What Works team Agile methodology, from GDS Behavioural insights for policy, …
Open Policy 2015: Day 3
Day 3 of Open Policy 2015 was the big one: six sessions with nearly 200 civil servants signed up to hear about ideas and examples relating to agile and iterative implementation. Today's workshops were: Government as a Platform, from GDS …
Open Policy 2015: day 2
The second day of Open Policy 2015 was themed around using the latest analytical techniques. Due to some unavoidable circumstances a couple of the sessions initially planned have been moved to later in the week, so today was a light …
Open Policy 2015: day 1
From the first day of the Open Policy Making team's Open Policy 2015: a week of events helping civil servants key new ideas, skills and contacts
Providing evidence on survivors’ pension benefits
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 required the Government to conduct a review of survivor benefits in occupational pension schemes. The review had to consider the differences in survivor benefits between different groups (such as males and females; those …