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...
...project in which one of the absolutely key people in the partner organisation did not want to allow either its users or his own employees to be involved in the...
...to buy something. So we created something with value – a map of local landmarks – which we could sell, with some local currency thrown in. Sketching has a real...
...OPM ed.]. But, OPM is what this team is doing all the time; working inside government, outside of government and across the two, sharing information and insight and creating collaboration....
...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....
...and grew up. I was confident I had a good idea of how the session would go and the ideas and issues the people attending would bring forward. I nodded...
...these challenges aired in a room, directly with policy makers. The energy would rise and challenges would become more intense, and then a wave of humour or a response from...
...to use this blog to be more outward-facing and to really practice open policy making by connecting with new audiences and experts and asking them to contribute to this debate...
Last week, I went to visit the Government Digital Service (GDS) at their offices in Holborn, invited by a colleague who recently left us on the OPM team to take...
Rachel, senior policy adviser on the OPM team, kicks off her blogging experience here with a post on what openness has come to mean to her - and what we...