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Open Policy at Civil Service Live 2014

Posted by: Open Policy Making team, Posted on: 17 July 2014 - Categories: Events, Examples and findings, News, Policy Lab
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...published on Tuesday with great stories from the Welsh Government on implementing carrier bag charging, an interview with Duncan Selbie of Public Health England, DfID's international work on banning Female...

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Open these: links for open policy makers (week 6)

Posted by: Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on: 11 July 2014 - Categories: Start the week
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...are to content readers may find interesting or thought-provoking and do not imply agreement or endorsement, in whole or in part, or with other positions taken by the authors or...

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The GDS experience

Posted by: Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on: 9 July 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings, Thought Pieces
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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...

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Open these: links for open policy makers (week 5)

Posted by: Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on: 4 July 2014 - Categories: Start the week
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...& 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...

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Open these: links for open policy makers (week 4)

Posted by: Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on: 27 June 2014 - Categories: Start the week
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...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...

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Open by default

Posted by: Rachel Pascual, Posted on: 26 June 2014 - Categories: Skills, tools and techniques, Thought Pieces
Model of open policy making in four bubbles, with a large bubble showing the qualities of the open policy maker (curious, networked, digitally engaged) and the three bubbles of the OPM themes: broadening the range of people we engage, using the latest analytical techniques and knowledge, and taking an agile more iterative approach to implementation

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...

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Open Policy Making in France: a Policy Profession event

Posted by: Open Policy Making team, Posted on: 24 June 2014 - Categories: Events, Thought Pieces
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...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?...

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Open these: links for open policy makers (week 3)

Posted by: Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on: 20 June 2014 - Categories: Start the week
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...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...

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Open these: links for open policy makers (week 2)

Posted by: Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on: 13 June 2014 - Categories: Start the week
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...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...

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Embedding wellbeing science in decision-making: an OPM/Sciencewise project

Posted by: Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on: 10 June 2014 - Categories: Examples and findings
Sir Roland is standing at a lectern giving a talk. A Sciencewise introduction slide is visible behind him.

...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,...

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