Designing a toolkit for policy makers
The design journey of the Open Policy Making toolkit. Bringing digital and policy together.
Skills, tools and techniques
There are a multitude of skills, tools and techniques you can use to implement open and better policy making. We're always looking for new and innovative ways to design better policy - here's where you can find out all the latest on tools to help you deliver better, more open policy.
Cards toolkit to help generate ideas and develop your policy project in an agile way
Since its birth in the mid-90s, agile methodology has become the star of the software development and project management world. Findcourses.co.uk lists 43 different agile courses available, 3M post-it notes sales are around £1 billion per year and ‘scrums’, ‘burn-downs’ …
What do civil servants need to learn about user-centred design?
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Ulele Andrews, Posted on:
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Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques, Thought Pieces
User-centred design is increasingly on the agenda of government and Civil Service Learning is gearing up to deliver learning on user-centred design next year. Read about how they're using the Policy Lab to help design the course.
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
Increasingly on the agenda of policymakers is a need to understand the needs, capacities and perspectives of citizens, service users, beneficiaries and front line staff so that policies are fit for purpose and deliverable and public services are better designed.
Launching the Open Policy Making Toolkit
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 …
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 …
Being the Secretariat of an Open Policy Pilot – the AHWBE
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Helen Jeffries, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques
For the last year I’ve been head of secretariat to the Animal Health and Welfare Board for England (AHWBE). New Year is a time to take stock and look back on achievements and opportunities, but most of all on what …
GDS Sprint and the Performance Platform
Next Tuesday (3 Feb) the Government Digital Service is hosting Sprint 15. Over 450 people will be gathering at the British Film Institute. It’s a packed programme as you’ll see from Mike Bracken’s blog post. The Performance Platform is a …
"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
One of our top priorities for this year is to build an open policy making toolkit. When our programme started, people wanted to know ‘what is open policy making?’ Now, the question is more often ‘how do I do it?’