Policy making through possible futures
...range from a technological prototype (e.g. Bernd Hopfengaertner’s Belief Systems, 2009) to a set of storyboards explaining a future world (e.g. Jaemin Paik’s When we all live to 150, 2012)...
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...are investing money into actually work, and the ‘What Works’ initiative seeks to address this, covering policy areas with £200 billion of public spending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InVG-0lZQtw Five of the six...
The time is ripe for evidence-based child policy in the UK
...information about what works in the field of child and family services has grown as budgets have tightened and accountability has increased. In the EU, EPIC provides information on policies...
Year Here: The power of the unknown
...go through the process and then analyse and learn from it afterwards, rather than putting up barriers before it even starts. We must trust in the processes, go through them...
Year Here: Design Methodology and Social Action
...and that, with the right methodology and collaboration, they can find them.” And it's easy to be overwhelmed by the increasing number of methodologies being proposed as the next design...
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
...Now aims to catalyse enduring change in communities – transforming our most challenged communities, reducing crime and increasing confidence in policing by recruiting and developing outstanding individuals to be leaders...
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?
...the uncertainty and complexity underpinning energy policy, the team built a model of the energy system: the 2050 Pathways Calculator. Although the team routinely used models to inform decision-making before,...
Digital and policy in DWP
...of better positioning it on the page? Or formulating it better? Or asking yourself if it is even really necessary in order to achieve your policy objectives? 5) OK,...