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Launching the new Policy Lab prospectus

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Launching the new Policy Lab prospectus

Donna Ward, Director of Strategic Policy in the Department for Education, launches Policy Lab's new prospectus. From catalytic interventions to ambitious system change, read on to find out about Policy Lab's methods, offer and impact.

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Exploring new ways of turning evidence into ideas

Posted by: Cat Drew, Posted on: 15 October 2015 - Categories: Examples and findings, Policy Lab

...the opposite? What would you do in 2040? Oh... hang on. These are hypothetical change cards that Policy Lab usually uses in quickfire brainstorming rounds to generate loads of -...

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Open and responsive policy making in Croatia

Posted by: Igor Vidačak and Laurence Grinyer, Posted on: 25 August 2015 - Categories: Examples and findings

As part of Open Government Partnership action plan the Croatian Government is using transparent and open policy making to make better policy, and democracy.

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From deductive to abductive, Policy Lab investigates new ways of thinking about policy

Posted by: hannahrutter, Posted on: 24 August 2015 - Categories: Policy Lab

Do you have an ‘I really don’t know’ policy challenge? Policy Lab can help.

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Start the week: design thinking

Posted by: Laurence Grinyer, Posted on: 17 August 2015 - Categories: Start the week

Design thinking helps us understand people and put their experiences at the heart of decision making and creativity. How has this movement changed the world?

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Start your week: smarter cities

Posted by: Laurence Grinyer, Posted on: 10 August 2015 - Categories: Start the week

With more people than ever living in cities across the country and world we look at the articles asking how better, more open and agile policy making can deliver cities that work for everyone in them.

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Start your week right: read these

Posted by: Laurence Grinyer, Posted on: 20 July 2015 - Categories: Start the week

Start your week right with these quick reads. This week we bring together links from the web that ask can Design fix our ailing democracy? What are the guidelines? what is Service Design?

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Combatting problem gambling with data analytics

Posted by: David Excell, Posted on: 17 July 2015 - Categories: Examples and findings

David Excell from Featurespace looks at how big data analysis is helping the gambling industry meet new policies, and the opportunities this has for developing policy that understand users in the future.

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Cards toolkit to help generate ideas and develop your policy project in an agile way

Posted by: Cat Drew, Posted on: 10 July 2015 - Categories: Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques

...- or prototypes - are in the policy world, and have been trying out sketches, paper prototypes and testing things out in the field. People are experimenting and interest is...

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Start your week right: read these

Posted by: Laurence Grinyer, Posted on: 6 July 2015 - Categories: Start the week

Start your week right with these quick reads. Every Monday we'll send out blogs, reports, discussions and events to help inspire, inform and excite you for the rest of the week.

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Network of Innovators: the first experiment

Posted by: Beth Noveck and Andrew Young, Posted on: 3 July 2015 - Categories: Examples and findings

We want to build a network of innovators and creativity around government. The GovLab has been looking at just this. Beth Noveck and Andrew Young reflect on what they've learnt and where they're headed.

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