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- Overcoming Hindrances to Public-Sector Collaboration
- By Colin Wood. Government Technology, April 5, 2013. "While most people agree that collaboration and innovation are good things in government, Rob White, chief innovation officer of Davis, Calif., says the public sector has additional forces at work that routinely prevent successful collaboration from happening – fear, threat and lack of rewards for taking risks. And Phil Bertolini, CIO of Oakland County, Mich., agrees with White’s identification of these three negative forces..."
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- Feds say innovation is seldom encouraged or rewarded
- By Brittany Ballenstedt. NextGov, November 28, 2012. "Technology and other innovations -- such as cloud computing and telework -- have dramatically changed the way federal employees perform their jobs. But when it comes to finding new and innovative ways of doing business in government, most federal employees lack the appropriate incentives and support, according to survey results released last week..."
Added: 29 November 2012;
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- To spark innovation, feds take a few lessons from Silicon Valley
- By Brittany Ballenstedt. NextGov, November 19, 2012. "Three years ago, officials from the Office of Personnel Management began visiting top Silicon Valley companies like Facebook and IDEO with one idea in mind: making government cool again. Now, OPM is embracing that cool factor by replicating some of the work habits and workspaces of those companies in designing an innovation lab in the sub-basement of its Washington headquarters. 'When we first visited these companies, we didn't necessarily know we were going to build an innovation lab,' says agency spokesman John Marble. 'We just knew that with the challenges we were facing that we needed to be more innovative in government.'..."
Added: 20 November 2012;
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- State seeks social media platform to target travel news, warnings
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 8 November 2012. "The State Department's consular affairs bureau is in the market for a new social media platform to help it target travel warnings and other news to different audiences, solicitation documents show..."
Added: 9 November 2012;
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- Code For America Names Seven Civic Startups
- Government Technology, October 31, 2012. "On Oct. 30, Code for America announced the seven San Francisco startup companies in its inaugural class of civic accelerator startups -- a program that provided each company with $25,000 and four months free access to local workspace to build their ideas. These seven civic startups are developing real, sustainable solutions for challenges faced by government; they were chosen from more than 235 applicants by Tim O'Reilly, Ron Bouganim and a board of government technology leaders..."
Added: 1 November 2012;
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- The Way Forward to a More Innovative Government
- By John Simpson, Federal Consultant, Reach the Public, October 3rd, 2012. "In July 2012, the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte published a report based on analyzing data from the 2011 Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey to summarize the sentiments of government employees on their view of innovation in their working environment. While a significant majority of employees (91.5%) are looking for ways to perform their job better, a much smaller percentage (59.2%) “reported that they are encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things” and only 38.8% responded that creativity and innovation were rewarded in their office. Both stats were lower than the previous year’s results (59.6% and 39% respectively). While the nation’s public servants are overwhelmingly eager to find new ways to improve their performance, office leadership sometimes isn’t there to encourage or nurture an employee’s drive for creativity or innovation..."
Added: 25 October 2012;
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- Public Sector Panel: Digital Government, Innovation and Communications
- Posted by Mary Yang for GovDelivery. Reach the Public, October 24th, 2012. "Amy DeWolf, a fellow with GovLoop, recently posted about the panel of public sector experts at our annual event in DC. Her post is below: I attended GovDelivery's annual federal event, Digital Government: The Transformative Power of Communications. The event focused on how digital government, innovation and communications intersect to transform how government operates and provides services to citizens through emerging technology..."
Added: 25 October 2012;
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- Unleashing government's 'innovation mojo'
- McKinsey interview by Eric Braverman and Michael Chui. Government designed for new times: A global conversation, October 2012. "Todd Park, US chief technology officer, wants to combine technology with open-data initiatives to tap into the many talented innovators and entrepreneurs across the government. McKinsey: Innovation is a big part of your new role. But some would say the US government is not known for innovation—and we're in an election year, which may be a difficult time to get things done. Do you see innovative things happening in the government right now? Todd Park: There’s an extraordinary amount of innovation happening in the US government, and I’d say the single biggest driver is that the government is embracing the idea of open innovation—unleashing the power of the private sector, the academic sector, the nonprofit sector, and the public in general to get a lot more done than if the government tried to do everything itself. There’s a rapidly growing array of stories we can tell along those lines..."
Added: 15 October 2012;
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- Big ideas about big data could win prizes
- By Michael Hardy. Federal Computer Week, October 4, 2012. "Government agencies have been using competitions with some success to harness the collective brainpower of the public in solving thorny technology problems. Now three agencies – NASA, the Energy Department and the National Science Foundation -- are using the model to approach big-data conundrums. Separately, the NSF and the National Institutes of Health are funding additional research into big data through a more conventional grants process. The NASA-NSF-DOE project is only the first of a planned series of contests, run through the crowdsourcing site TopCoder.com. .."
Added: 9 October 2012;
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- Dr. Kevin Desouza's 'Challenge.gov: Using Competitions and Awards to Spur Innovation'
- by Dan Chenok. IBM Center for the Business of Government, Tuesday, September 4th, 2012. "Kevin C. Desouza's 'Challenge.gov: Using Competitions and Awards to Spur Innovation', examines the cross-government electronic platform, Challenge.gov, through which agencies can pose problems and challenge the public to provide solutions. Cutting-edge government leaders are constantly seeking new and innovative ways to solve public problems. The opportunity facing government managers is to find these new approaches. One new approach is the use of challenges, which use 'crowdsourcing' to canvass solution approaches for particular problems. Challenges open up new avenues for connecting people who have innovative ideas to people in government who can implement these ideas. A recent IBM Center for the Business of Government report, Managing Innovation Prizes in Government by Luciano Kay, examined various models pioneered in the private sector to connect innovators with ideas to businesses looking to solve problems; today’s report complements that study..."
Added: 6 September 2012;
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- Managing Innovation Prizes in Government
- by Luciano Kay, Georgia Institute of Technology. IBM Center for the Business of Government, 2012. "The use of prizes and awards is a visible element of the Obama Administration’s efforts to promote innovation in government... In this report, author Luciano Kay surveys the literature and offers several case studies of recent prizes awarded for technology innovations: the Ansari X Prize for re-usable space craft, the Northup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, and a Defense Department prize for autonomous road vehicles..."
Added: 6 September 2012;
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- White House announces Presidential Innovation Fellows
- O'Reilly Radar Tumblr, 23 August 2012. "This morning, US Chief Technology Officer Todd Park announced the first class of 'Presidential Innovation Fellows.' 'The Presidential Innovation Fellows program leverages the ingenuity of leading problem solvers from across America together with federal innovators to tackle projects that aim to fuel job creation, save taxpayers money and improve the lives of Americans in tangible ways,' Park said, in a released statement. 'These private sector innovators bring their entrepreneurial expertise to the table that has helped jump-start high-tech companies, increase efficiency and public engagement, and redefine how technology is used in business.'..."
Added: 28 August 2012;
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- Revolution @State: The Spread of Ediplomacy
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). By Fergus Hanson, Lowy Institute for International Policy, March 2012. "Executive summary - The US State Department has become the world's leading user of ediplomacy. Ediplomacy now employs over 150 full-time personnel working in 25 different ediplomacy nodes at Headquarters. More than 900 people use it at US missions abroad. Ediplomacy is now used across eight different program areas at State: Knowledge Management, Public Diplomacy and Internet Freedom dominate in terms of staffing and resources. However, it is also being used for Information Management, Consular, Disaster Response, harnessing External Resources and Policy Planning. In some areas ediplomacy is changing the way State does business. In Public Diplomacy, State now operates what is effectively a global media empire, reaching a larger direct audience than the paid circulation of the ten largest US dailies and employing an army of diplomat-journalists to feed its 600-plus platforms. In other areas, like Knowledge Management, ediplomacy is finding solutions to problems that have plagued foreign ministries for centuries. The slow pace of adaptation to ediplomacy by many foreign ministries suggests there is a degree of uncertainty over what ediplomacy is all about, what it can do and how pervasive its influence is going to be. This report – the result of a four-month research project in Washington DC – should help provide those answers..."
Added: 22 August 2012;
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- NASA scores high on innovation
- By Camille Tuutti. Federal Computer Week, July 24, 2012. "Federal employees are eager to innovate, but garnering enough support from their managers and agency leaders to do so has proven to be anything but easy. Analysis by the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte revealed an overwhelming majority of employees (91.5 percent) said they are exploring new ways to do their jobs better. However, only 60 percent said they are encouraged to think creatively and come up with innovative ways of doing things. Additionally, just 40 percent said creativity and innovation are rewarded in the workplace, according to the "Achieving a Culture of Innovation” report..."
Added: 25 July 2012;
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- Achieving a culture of innovation
- Best Places to Work in the Federal Government. Partnership for Public Service, July 2012. "Innovation is the process of improving, adapting or developing a product, system or service to deliver better results and create value for people. If we want a 21st century federal government that effectively serves the needs of the American people, agencies need to embrace transformation and inspire employees to seek continuous improvement. Given today’s budgetary constraints, federal employees and their agencies are being asked to deliver more with fewer resources, and this means that innovation will be a critical factor in achieving improved performance. Is our federal government innovative? Which agencies are innovating and which are struggling? To gain insight into how the government and its employees are responding to this need for change, the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte analyzed data from the 2011 Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey to examine the views of the nation’s public servants toward innovation in the workplace, and to provide the basis for our Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® innovation rankings. This Best Places to Work snapshot, an update from our analysis of the 2010 data,2 pinpoints from the employee perspective which agencies are innovating and which are struggling. It also illustrates the importance for leaders to empower employees to initiate change and reward them for their achievements..."
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