Being open with evidence at DfID
...that this can bring. - Laura Baynton, Cabinet Office What Works Team One of the ongoing challenges in international development is making sure that we understand what does or doesn’t...
...that this can bring. - Laura Baynton, Cabinet Office What Works Team One of the ongoing challenges in international development is making sure that we understand what does or doesn’t...
...the early excitement of 'nudge', but behavioural economics still has much to add. The Indian Government is crowdsourcing ideas online. Rob Miller responds to David Briggs' Think Digital' seminar. Iceland...
...for designing products and services in collaboration with the end user. DFID knew that there was already a very strong online community, in IDEO.org’s sister organisation, openIDEO.com. Rather than set...
...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....
...people affected by regulation. They also ran challenge sessions with them. The team grouped regulations into themes, and published them online in a rolling programme. Each theme had a 5...
...action, to have a policy and to change the law. There have been twenty-two fatalities as a result of dog attacks since 2005 - thirteen children and nine adults -...
...we develop physical artefacts to support policy development - or through digital ‘spaces’. Although they do not require physical space, digital products, especially in government, need to fit in a...
...action are in- and out- of scope. Others use it to think more broadly, exploring different types of action that they would otherwise not have been prompted to consider. Applying...
...- making it visual - provides a starting point for surfacing and understanding different perspectives. Policy application 2: Unintended consequences An intervention intended to achieve one policy outcome may have...
...you are a new policy-maker wondering how this all works, the government provides comprehensive election guidance for civil servants online. This is a time when we have some space to...