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Two million people help set the Millennium Development Goals

Posted by: Beatrice Andrews, Posted on: 14 March 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Skills, tools and techniques

In an example of Open Policy Making on a huge scale, almost 2 million people across 194 countries have been involved in defining the United Nation's (UN) Millennium Development Goals.

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Competing to get Europe back to work

Posted by: Beatrice Andrews, Posted on: 23 January 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings

What is the best way to find new ideas to solve old problems? In the face of a huge unemployment problem across Europe, the European Commission wanted to attract the brightest minds to come up with new solutions. In 2012 they decided to try a competition to see what response they would get.

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Tuberculosis testing in Scotland

Posted by: Chris Watson, Posted on: 17 April 2013 - Categories: Examples and findings

In early 2009, the Animal Health and Welfare Division (AHWD) in the Rural Directorate in the Scottish Government was tasked with developing a policy to achieve “Officially TB Free (OTF) status” for Scotland.

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