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As many of our readers will be aware, with the General Election on May 7th approaching, the UK civil service is now going into purdah. Purdah is the several weeks before an election when the essential business of government continues, …
As you may know from some of our previous blog posts, we’ve been busy squirrelling away to create an Open Policy Making Toolkit. The aim is very simple – as the movement supporting Open Policy Making has grown, more and more …
Before I joined the civil service, I worked for a couple of years in management consultancy, working mainly with local government on improving efficiency, transforming services, and working better with citizens. One of the key lessons I learnt from that …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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
On 24 January 70 Heads of Policy Profession and Digital Leaders met to share practical examples and experiences of Open Policy Making and to learn about some of the tools and techniques that can support an open approach to the policy process.
At the beginning of the year we all think fondly about the marvellous things we want to achieve over the coming months. What are the OPM team's resolutions for open policy making in 2015? To do more to consciously …
Given 2014 is drawing to a close we thought we would look to the future, beat the Sunday papers to it, and canter through some of the emerging trends and ideas vying to shape 2015. So this week Policy Lab …