May 2020 - Observatory of Public Sector Innovation Observatory of Public Sector Innovation

Call for Innovative Government Responses to COVID-19

28 May 2020

COVID-19: Innovative responses update #7

This is our seventh update about innovative responses (including public sector innovation, digital government or open government) being undertaken around the world. Thank you again to all who have contributed in answer to our call and to our partners (including the Centre…

James Mohun

27 May 2020

Seeking your feedback on draft Rules as Code primer

Emerging Tech, Research

Today we’re seeking your help in finalising our Rules as Code primer – “Cracking the code: Rulemaking for humans and machines”. We’re seeking feedback until 24 June, with the hope of finalising the report for release in late July…

Rules as code

Ed Straw

26 May 2020

Systemic Governing – Applied systems thinking in practice

Innovation Skills, Systems Thinking

Guest blog from the Applied Systems Thinking in Practice Group, School of Engineering & Innovation, The Open University (UK) Systems thinking in times of complex challenges The Covid-19 pandemic has shown what governments can do…

systems thinking

Alex Roberts

15 May 2020

COVID-19: Innovative responses update #6

Covid-19

This is our sixth update about innovative responses (including public sector innovation, digital government or open government) being undertaken around the world. Thank you again to all who have contributed in answer to our call and to our partners (including the Centre…

covid19

Three figures, one standing still saying "Yes! Things will go back to the old normal now", one holding a light bulb and saying "I hope we can keep some of the new things that we did", and one on a scooter saying "Window of opportunity! Let's change everything"

Alex Roberts

14 May 2020

Public sector innovation and COVID-19: practitioner perspective webinar

Covid-19, Event

“We were trying to change the normal before the crisis – we don’t want to return to that normal” (Bruno Monteiro). As witnessed by the growing collection in our innovative responses tracker, there is currently a surge…

covid19

Piret Tõnurist

14 May 2020

Feedback needed: Try out our initial draft tool for innovation portfolio assessment

H2020

We are taking OPSI’s portfolio exploration and assessment support into the virtual realm. We are asking for 20-30 minutes of your time to share initial thoughts and feedback on our first draft of questions for exploring: The way your…

innovation facets innovation management Innovation strategy Organisational Design Tool