Policy making through possible futures
...exist in a future world, and not hoaxing people into thinking they exist now. For the GO-Science workshop in Swansea last week, the research and design co-operative - Strange Telemetry...
Thought Pieces
We ask people from across the public sector and design industries to expand the concept of Open Policy Making and ask the questions that no one else will. These blogs look to the future and make you think.
Embracing What Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InVG-0lZQtw...that robust evidence underlies local and national policy making. There are so many areas of public spend where we still have no real evidence about whether the interventions that we...
The time is ripe for evidence-based child policy in the UK
...online platform. The EPIC project is one contribution from the EU to the increasing need for evidence-based policy making, represented in the UK by the What Works network of...
Year Here: The power of the unknown
...over again the next day. Just spending the days counting down to the weekend when we can recharge. Maybe I am wrong, but somehow I don’t think that’s the case....
Year Here: Design Methodology and Social Action
...problem solvers' be applied to social action rather than economic growth? Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO has said “designers are optimistic. They believe there are solutions to tough problems...
Being a part of the future of policy making
...Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of Civil Service, provides some advice on making the most of all of the resources available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSjmS21ZE6s 1. Join the conversation: you can...
What comes first
...force. Workshops aren’t uncommon – so what was different about this one? Well, they didn’t just form a team that squirreled away in isolation on the proposition to launch Police...
Staying on top of your game
...develop to meet that ambition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q5LyLYdEqA Learn more about being open-minded by instinct, have a look at the training on offer from Civil Service Learning (registration required) and...
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...
Digital and policy in DWP
...including potentially involving external stakeholders in that development process. It may even mean that instead of sending 20 page submissions to Ministers, we take a prototype of a service to...