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.
...makers across the civil service is, what are you doing to open yourself to the best thinking outside of the civil service? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58UGK1u2YmY If this has piqued your...
...they say what they say, why the order of their actions is as it is, and what this must mean for the citizens’ service experience. Or consider a school administrator...
Policy Lab is bringing design thinking to Government. It's about connecting civil servants with outside design experts and upskilling civil servants themselves. Following a really successful collaborative workshop on police...
...a long standing personal interest for me and as our world becomes more technologically enabled to be consistently ‘open’, my professional work couldn’t help but take note of it. So,...
...my old boss used to say ‘steal with pride’! But you need to learn to walk before you can run off and start designing new whizzy online tools and products....
...‘real country’. But as part of our policy work, we need to know what people think. And I’ve learnt not to believe we can get there without asking. Are...
...addressing a particularly talkative participant was a master class in how to avoid the discussion becoming derailed without devaluing the person’s contribution. There were plenty of challenges for the policy...
...blog, the Open Policy Making team are modelling both the Civil Service’s ambition to become a global exemplar of open policy making and what this actually looks like in practice....
...have working cultures where time to think and focus is respected – where what matters is what has got done, not where, when or how. Now, I'm not saying things...
...openness, then, is about being clear on the aspects of a policy that can benefit from the tools and techniques associated with open policy-making and being honest about those aspects...