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- Role of social design in public services
- Jocelyn Bailey explains how a design-based approach can improve public services and why it is gaining importance. by Jocelyn Bailey. Guardian Professional, Thursday 19 April 2012. "UK public services are gradually going digital, users are being asked to collaborate in service development and data is being made public. This is partly a natural evolution, partly provoked by the media, and partly driven by the government's open public services agenda: increase choice for citizens, release data, diversify the range of providers..."
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- Tackling government innovation through a new funding model
- By Joseph Marks. Nextgov, 14 March 2012. "There's no shortage of ideas for ways to better leverage technology to improve health and education in the developing world and there's no shortage of people interested in putting those ideas into practice, the chief innovation officer for the United States Agency for International Development said Wednesday. The problem, Maura O'Neill said, is traditional funding models tend to scare off federal officials, who are wary of pumping money into unproven ideas that have to be scaled at a national or multinational level. If the ideas prove successful, there's some personal satisfaction, but if they flop the agency or division is tarred with wasting millions in taxpayer dollars..."
Added: 15 March 2012;
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- Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector
- The Innovation Journal, The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Volume 17 Issue 1, 2012 - Special Issue, Edited by Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing, Roskilde University, Denmark. Contents include: 1. Introduction: Collaborative innovation in the public sector; Peer-Reviewed Papers: 2. Strategic and everyday innovative narratives: Translating ideas into everyday life in organizations; 3. Public policy, intermediaries and innovation system performance: A comparative analysis of Quebec and Ontario; 4. Powering collaborative policy innovation: Can innovation labs help? 5. Producing synergy in collaborations: A successful hospital case study; 6. Drivers and barriers of public innovation in crime prevention; 7. Stewards, mediators, and catalysts: Toward a model of collaborative leadership; 8. Barriers to credible innovations: Collaborative regional governance in the Netherlands; 9. Measuring the accountability of collaborative innovation Book Reviews: 10. Innovation in the Public Sector: Linking Capacity and Leadership; 11. Networks, Innovation and Public Policy: Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Pathway to Change inside Government.
Added: 15 March 2012;
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- What If Government Were More Like an iPod?
- Dilbert's Scott Adams on bringing democracy out of the age of wax candles and into the age of touch screens, By Scott Adams. The Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2011. "If Congress had a 9% approval rating while George Washington was still alive, he would have shoved his wooden dentures in his mouth, assembled a militia and marched on the Capitol. The nation's founders weren't big fans of dysfunctional governments. I'll bet we could solve our energy problem by connecting a generator to John Adams's corpse, which I assume is spinning in its grave..."
Added: 23 February 2012;
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- The Perils of Evidence-Based Government
- It's a powerful tool, but sometimes it might really be better to reinvent the wheel, By Babak Armajani. Governing, January 4, 2012. "... Whither Innovation? The first concern is the necessary tension between doing what has been proven and seeking a "better way." If everything we did were based on approaches that were proven elsewhere, how would there ever be innovation?..."
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- Prizes and Competitions in the Federal Government
- A lecture to the MIT XPrize Lab course about the value of leveraging prizes in the government, by Jenn Gustetic, Prezi, 6 October 2011. "Multiply the initial investment, identify experts and solutions, create new connections, build industries, recognize excellence, focus on results, and educate..."
Added: 27 October 2011;
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- Why Innovators Should be Paying Attention to Prizes
- By Jenn Gustetic. Government Transformation - Phase One, October 13, 2011. "Innovators—including government innovators—should be paying attention to prizes because they work, because they add another tool to their innovation tool belt, and because they are already being used by a typical late adopter—the government... Before I dive into some examples of how they've been proven to work though, it’s important to set context: I’m not only referring to app contests and video competitions, which can be great introductions to Agencies about the process for conducting a prize, but more importantly prizes that are specifically designed to solve root cause issues that have been pervasive in their sector for some time..."
Added: 27 October 2011;
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- More data, more transparency around government requests
- Posted by Dorothy Chou, Senior Policy Analyst. Google public Policy Blog, Tuesday, October 25, 2011. "... Today we’re updating the Government Requests tool with numbers for requests that we received from January to June 2011. For the first time, we’re not only disclosing the number of requests for user data, but we’re showing the number of users or accounts that are specified in those requests too..."
Added: 26 October 2011;
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- The Myth of Government Innovation
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, October 24, 2011. "... My view about government innovation is that there are three types of innovation: - Enterprise innovation, which concerns all or most agencies at the same time, through mandates or centrally-managed initiatives: open government or cloud first would be good examples; - Agency innovation, which concerns a specific mission or program, and is focused to solve a particular problem: an example is the use of data analytics to detect fraud with stimulus funding; - Individual innovation, which concerns government employees who become agents of innovation by solving a problem in a new way: examples abound in state and local governments facing major budget shortfalls. Innovation can be successful only if these three different types are recognized and an innovation framework supporting all three is put in place..."
Added: 25 October 2011;
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- The Frustration of an Open Government Leader
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, October 3, 2011. "... Governments seem reluctant to change the way the operate, and open government remains at the edges, almost yet another compliance requirement, but nothing that triggers sustainable change. Hundreds of application contests, idea collections, crowdsourcing, barcamps, hackatons, leave business processes unscathed, and the role and reputation of IT in the business unchanged. The only way things can change is when open government will turn from a nice-to-have to a must-have, from an opportunity to a necessity..."
Added: 6 October 2011;
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- UK to lead global partnership on open government
- Cabinet Office, 20 September 2011. "The UK was today announced as the 2012 co-chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), an innovative international initiative bringing developed and developing countries together to promote transparency and harness new technologies for open government to help fight corruption, engage citizens and save lives. The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, will accept the UK’s lead role at the official launch in New York today. He will deliver a speech to delegates from across the world, sharing experiences from the UK and will announce new commitments on aid transparency..."
Added: 29 September 2011;
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- The Geopolitics of the Open Government Partnership: the beginning of Open vs. Closed
- by David Eaves. 28 September 2011. "Aside from one or two notable exceptions, there hasn't been a ton of press about the Open Government Partnership (OGP). This is hardly surprising. The press likes to talk about corruption and bad government, people getting together to talk about actually address these things in far less sexy. But even where good coverage exists analysts and journalists are, I think, misunderstanding the nature of the partnership and its broader implications should it take hold. Presently it is generally seen as a do good project, one that will help fight corruption and hopefully lead to some better governance (both of which I hope will be true). However, the Open Government Partnership isn't just about doing good, it has real strategic and geopolitical purposes..."
Added: 29 September 2011;
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- Global Open Government Partnership gets mixed forecasts
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, September 7, 2011. "As the United States prepares to co-launch a global partnership for government transparency, advocates weigh in with suggestions for priorities while critics warn of risks. Senior government officials from the United States and Brazil, the co-chairing countries, will officially start the Open Government Partnership at a United Nations event Sept. 20..."
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- Smart Governments Must Blend Long and Short Term Perspectives
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, August 24, 2011. "... Creating 'sustainable public value' implies that the total cost of ownership of government services and processes needs to take into serious account the energy cost as well as the environmental cost, especially as carbon charging schemes become more popular. This has a substantial impact on our research on smart government, which we define as an administration that: - Integrates information, communication and operational technologies - to planning, management and operations - across multiple domains, process areas and jurisdictions - to generate sustainable public value..."
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- Eight governments, led by US, form an international Open Government Partnership - should Australia be involved?
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Monday, August 22, 2011. "I've just learnt about the Open Government Partnership (OGP) a global effort to "make governments better" through encouraging and supporting more transparent, effective and accountable governments. Launched under the oversight of a multi-stakeholder International Steering Committee including representatives of eight governments and nine civil society representatives, and initially co-chaired by Brazil and the USA, the OGP has broad ambitions to promote open government around the globe..."
Added: 22 August 2011;
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