How do we do open foreign policy making?
![A picture of an exercise called Hopes and Fears. This exercise asks participants to tell us their main hope and their main fear for addressing a particular challenge. The activity uses physical cards, but can also be run orally through discussion.](https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/05/IMG_0048-1-620x416.jpg)
...We have learnt that where a more open format is deployed, for example in multi-stakeholder idea generation, space is created for different voices to be heard. But the collaborative, relatively...
...We have learnt that where a more open format is deployed, for example in multi-stakeholder idea generation, space is created for different voices to be heard. But the collaborative, relatively...
...whose ‘energy comes from within’. I learnt, for example, to help people find safe spaces for thinking - and not to force people to take a view before they've had...
...creates integrity in the virtual currency without the need for central bank - for instance it prevents individual bitcoins being used at the same time by two separate people. What...
...of academics. Introducing the event, Jill Rutter of the Institute for Government pointed to the opaqueness of government to many people from the outside. Government websites present documents for consultation,...
...do and all you need is others’ ‘buy-in’. One thing is for sure, this is not the right place for a facilitated workshop as participants will figure out quite quickly...
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Welsh Government have just launched a public consultation ahead of a new Fisheries Management Plan for Seabass. Policy Lab...
...some of the behaviours and mindsets that underpin it? This is our fourth blog based on our project for the pioneering Changing Futures programme in the Department for Levelling Up,...
...they would have different motivations and needs for returning to work, and therefore different policy interventions. The data science showed that people who were in their job for...
...ways to marry this data with the rigorous, objective standards of evidence needed to inform policy requires careful consideration. Policy Lab's film ethnography for the Department for Transport's future of...
...Christopher Samuel spent time with the Community Ownership Fund team at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). This team develops policy for, administrates and evaluates a £150m...