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.
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...
...& Albert Museum on Wednesday 9 July 4:30pm-6:00pm - come and say hi! On Friday 11 July 12:00pm to 2:00pm the Guardian is hosting a live chat about digital skills...
At a recent meeting with Ben Terrett (Director of Design at the Government Digital Service) I was reminded of the importance of sharing ideas. ‘You’ve got to blog,’ he said, so here is the Policy Lab’s first post. It also coincides with Nesta’s i-teams report, which is sharing best practice from around the world as …
...join the conversation on Twitter! #openpolicy (Links will open in new tabs) Last weekend saw local government digital leaders and innovators gather for Local Gov Camp 2014 and...
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...
...learn and share best practice from experts in the UK and around the world. Check out our Storify including our tweets and the presenters' slides. What did we learn?...
...many experts? Prof Gerry Stoker on improving the relationship between scientists and policy makers. The iPod model of public services: using customer-focused design to drive services and systems that rethink...
...join the conversation on Twitter! #openpolicy (Links will open in new tabs) What's the future of prototyping? It's already here. People power and transformative change in the NHS. The...
...for interventions. In the second session they're presented back with some of these ideas to talk in more depth about how they might work and the benefits they would bring,...
...experts from across the public sector and beyond. Ingrid Koehler from the Local Government Information Unit talks about how she learnt to love service design at the Service Design in...