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[New blog with
@ElaMi5
] Can we really build organisational will to shift "from projects to portfolios"? 3 things we are learning along the way With thanks to
@echoce
@KateWolfenden
@KirstenCKIC
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Roots Atlas - a collection of 1000 roots drawings, the outcome of 40 years of root system excavations in Europe, mainly in Austria
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Every minister in Taiwan has 2 reverse mentors - young social innovators that look at policies from the perspective of the next generation. This has already led to concrete policy changes. Thanks
@audreyt
@GovInsider
for the inspiration
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"Data is created, not found; and creating it well demands humanity, rather than objectivity"
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Photo captures a public sector innovator meeting the procurement department
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Finally, the paper is out! What is most effective in surfacing bottom up solutions - lead user innovation or challenges? An example on flood resilience in Indonesia
#socinn
#civictechschool
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"A bold reassessment of smart cities that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers". And by
@shannonmattern
!What else is left to say! Can't wait to get hold of my copy
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"Innovation won’t come from labs, it won’t come from offsite away days, or from AI or Blockchain or whatever the next over-hyped technology ends up being. True innovation comes from teams that do. Teams that are allowed to do"
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"In a futuristic Africa, hackers use the Giraffe’s to block and divert traffic" ht
@digitalafrican
cc
@Oniropolis
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Harvard radically redesigns the course catalog, making it "a system that displays the curriculum as a network of connections, a continuous landscape that does not segregate courses by departmental divisions." cc
@shannonmattern
via
@BKCHarvard
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“Just because you are doing 30 projects that does not mean you have a portfolio” - A portfolio is a deliberately designed set of interconnected interventions so they learn from each other. On the money
@tommitchell_kic
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The Cabinet of Bureaucratic Wonders is an ongoing
collection of artifacts found in public sector facilities in Brazil Wonderful
@ltvaqueiro
@isabranda
via
@shannonmattern
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Survey questions designed by external experts vs. questions designed by local women in Indian villages via
@yuenyuenang
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"These maps show that older cities have evolved organically & sometimes haphazardly over time"
@Oniropolis
@brulepri
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Demon flattening someone out & cutting them into soba noodles [+ other depictions of Japanese hell] cc
@Oniropolis
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"User research is an absolute must in the development of digital public services. But it is insufficient as a form of co-production on its own" A tantalising excerpt from
@richardjpope
upcoming book
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Creating the coronopticon - "Countries are learning how to make use of digital panopticon’s power in a pell-mell, piecemeal way. The systems that they lash together may last a long time. It would be best to keep an eye on them"
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Little me and
@MazzucatoM
on why gov'ts that invested in core capabilities have more options at their disposal in the face of COVID
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Émile-Antoine Bayard’s illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870) cc
@Oniropolis
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[Oh boy, this hurts] "During the 1 year I served as Chief Innovation Officer for the Gov't of Sierra Leone, it has become clear to me that “expert consultants” might be one major reasons why African gov'ts have stagnated" ht
@prepaid_africa
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"A disingenuous use of maps, apps, and other tools of participatory planning — call it mapwashing — threatens to undermine the democratizing, even radical potential of civic design" Priceless
@shannonmattern
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We often talk about designing portfolios of experiments (rather than single-point solutions). What does the practice of managing portfolios + sensemaking look like in practice? On my way to Helsinki for a deep dive with
@SitraFund
@Sida
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Public goods are REALLY good: thousands of years later, Roman roads are still paying development dividends [mapping night time lights onto Roman empire roads] cc
@indy_johar
@JMateosGarcia
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The most fantastic architecture of the Soviet Union was built on paper
http://t.co/62DtzbkWLa
cc
@Oniropolis
http://t.co/nF7QkeNBhd
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"We don’t need more minimally viable products. We need more maximally viable orgs attacking big problems with a tinkerer’s mindset"
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Exploring policy innovation: tools, techniques+ approaches [like how the opportunities space is framed] via
@cherylshoe
#psilabs
cc
@JesperC_
@leursism
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"The Consulting Trap offers strategies for how firms like McKinsey, Accenture, KPMG and Deloitte can be resisted using people’s audits, public consultations, access to information requests, and social network analysis"
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What if rather than financing projects we financed system transformations? What would that look like? A new white paper by
@dhofstetter_x
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What does gov't foresight work look like in a pandemic? What role do memories and imagination play in understanding risk? A great issue of Foresigth
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Nosek refers to the “pyramid of culture change” as his strategy to push for reforms: first make a better practice possible, then easy, expected, rewarding & finally, required:
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1st-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design ht
@AlexOprunenco
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Innovative cultures are paradoxical: 1 A tolerance for failure requires an intolerance for incompetence; 2 A willingness to experiment requires rigorous discipline; 3 Psychological safety requires comfort with brutal candor via
@EskoKilpi
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This piece is about the state of being half awake and half dreaming" - A Diagram of Somnolence by Minjeong An
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"Too often I’ve seen colleagues use linear service maps and think of patient experience as being an A-Z pathway when the reality is that the experience of care is always cyclical" cc
@CassieRobinson
ht
@rohan_21awake
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Policy innovation in the "global South" and why South–to-North policy learning is often concealed, underreported and overlooked
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Utopia, abandoned - "An eerie spellbound nothingness prevails on the site of an unheralded experiment in living and working" cc
@Oniropolis
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Excellent piece of advice for
#acceleratorlabs
- don’t come in with your donor funded initiative and undermine years of efforts from local innovators to build ecosystems. Invest time to engage and understand local dynamics
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Innovation in the public sector is a balancing act between stability and agility - not "startuppery". New paper by
@rainerkattel
@wjmd
& Erkki Karo
#psilabs
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Using policy labs as a process to bring evidence closer to policymakers
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Trees as infrastructure - an open source model to support municipalities to embrace resilient urban forest management practices
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"Imagination is foundational, and it is in short supply... What passes for innovation nowadays couldn’t be further from it. Most innovation is satisfied tinkering on the edge of industrial age ideas, systems & technology"
@FarFlungPhil
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Rethinking monitoring and evaluation in complex systems — when learning is a result in itself
#newfrontiers
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"Instead of the local, adaptable and circular neighbourhoods we need, we get neighbourhoods of extraction, stagnation and loneliness" - luckily
@DarkMatter_Labs
are offering an alternative
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How can we accelerate the effects of portfolios of
#globaldev
projects? Announcing the launch of
@ricap_undp
portfolio sensemaking and acceleration protocol cc
@mikaelseppala
@Tom_Feeny
@sam__rye
@RChandran1
@ianmcclelland
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So sad to see this. Thank you
@MindLabDK
for providing a precedent to all of us in the
#psilabs
community, the constant inspiration, and truly remarkable & generous colleagues
#thankumindlabdk
cc
@christianbason
@JesperC_
@kitlykketoft
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Why humanitarian innovation needs system thinking. A 2-part series by
@UNHCRInnovation
& [and i definitely prefer the hyppo to the iceberg!]
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We are all developing countries now, says
@KateRaworth
. No country in the world can say that it is even close to meeting the needs of all of its people within the means of the planet
@ElaMi5
@indy_johar
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The evolution of innovation thinking (& what it means for the SDGs) A handy viz by
@IngridBurkett
- and a useful complement to
@nesta_uk
spiral
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The Berlin gov't launched a first of its kind: a state-run department store that sells items that might otherwise get thrown away and acts as an education center encouraging repair and reuse ht
@urbanismodotph
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"You can read history in the transition from curving cow paths in old downtowns to suburban sprawl; detect signals of wealth and poverty, sometimes next door to each other. These images don’t just reveal cityscapes; they reveal ourselves"
@Oniropolis
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[Epic] Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis. A field guide for decision makers inspired by the Cynefin framework by
@snwoded
@EU_ScienceHub
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Congrats
@DarkMatter_Labs
for winning
@Googleorg
impact challenge on climate with Trees as Infrastructure
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Calvino meets
#AI
- Generating non-existing but probable cities through machine learning … cc
@Oniropolis
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US gov't launches , where agencies are mandated to post their learning agendas "An orientation toward evaluation that acknowledges failure and emphasizes learning and continuous improvement"
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"Don't reduce complexity, add complexity" - we were lucky enough to catch
@cityofsound
on his way to Melbourne to share his learnings on "relational scaling" and mission driven innovation. Predictably, a real treat
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"Reverse procurement: when citizens develop prototypes like a site to keep track of face-mask distribution and then the government implements them. This is not government for or with the people, but after the people (they got there first)"
@audreyt
at
@si_exchange
event
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[Yessss!!!] “I have always said that 21st-century economics will be practised first and theorised later,”
@KateRaworth
said. “And
@CIVIC_SQUARE
are a leading example of community-based practice"
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[Fund the researcher, not the project] "Spain is to trial a new science funding programme, which will provide researchers with stable funding for four years to explore new ideas and build capacity, without being tied to specific projects"
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“Experimentation is an act of humility, an acknowledgment that there is simply no way of knowing without trying something different" ht
@rodney_ghali
cc
@christianbason
@mokka
@tprehn
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Data doesn’t just belong to you in the way that your house or car might; it is also you. It is like a quantum particle that can exist in two places at the same time, as both a representation of who you are and a commodity that can be sold
@triciawang
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"Innovation is not only something that happens at start-ups and in labs. It also happens in skate parks and community radio stations, in community energy companies and social care collectives, in community pubs and libraries"
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I know I am late in the game but finding myself nodding profusely at pretty much every paragraph in
@PublicDigitalHQ
Digital Transformation at Scale (including some of those dissing innovation units :-)) A great intro to bureaucracy hacking
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"Fast is not a direction" - why innovation in times of
#COVID19
needs to embrace long termism, public purpose and a portfolio logic Great post by
@RowanEConway
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Metaphor of the day: public sector innovation is like bungee jumping: 1st crazy guy jumps, others see that it is ok and follow. There's always a few left you need to tie and push off the cliff
#opsi2017
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8 things that can go wrong as orgs go down the "system change" path I think we comfortably hit all 8 already :-)
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Mission oriented innovation, from theory to practice - what a treat to have
@cityofsound
all for us today (well, at least virtually!) to share the experience of
@vinnovase
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“Data as oil,” “data as property,” “data as water,” “data as labor,” and “data as nuclear waste,” and the list goes on.
The more I think about it, the more I land on a new metaphor — data as a red herring
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Thrilled to read this
@yuenyuenang
paper after seeing some tantalising snippets. Probably the most insightful applications of automated text analysis applied to policymaking that I've come across to date. Sheds new light on how adaptive policy happens
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Which governments were able to integrate foresight systematically in policy making? A global overview
@AnnePBowers
@SOIFutures
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"Dear designers, my worry is that we in the public sector have plucked out what’s easy and supports the current systems and structures, and have left out all of the ‘magic’ that makes design so important and valuable for the public sector" …
#psilabs
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Why we want our accelerator labs to adopt a layering, not funnelling (aka pick the winner and hope it scales) logic. Every time we go through this with
@AxiloSpace
I discover new nuances to this framework
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Innovation practice is changing - extremely timely
@Centre4SysInnov
report taking stock of the emerging practice of systems innovation Kudos
@IngridBurkett
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The first modern organization chart: " In surprising contrast to today’s top-down organization pyramids, in McCallum’s chart the hierarchy was reversed"
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"We’re an innovation team embedded in gov't. We don’t work at Spotify or in a digital org with a working culture that models these principles in practice at scale. We can’t assume that our partners and stakeholders have the same values"
@JesperC_
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Mission driven innovation at the city level - great
@IIPP_UCL
webinar hosted by
@cityofsound
. Recurring themes: the challenge of coordinating different levels of gov't, the need for long term commitment & dynamic capabilities, shift from transactional to relational gov't
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Challenge-driven innovation policy: towards a new
policy toolkit by
@MazzucatoM
@rainerkattel
@jryancollins
"if we want to take the SDGs seriously as policy goals, market shaping should become the overarching approach"
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Want to innovate in the public sector? You need to operate at many levels. A useful taxonomy by
@romanyosif
based on
@labgobcl
experience
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As much as we like to believe in “science over fiction,” decisions in the real world require negotiating between what we think the data means, what human value we’d like to assign to it and what stories about it we can get others to accept
@CassieRobinson
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Will you be the one replacing me as Head of UNDP's Regional Innovation Center in Asia Pacific? Fab team, great projects.. and very easy to improve on your predecessor :-)
@States_Change
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"It is exceptionally rare for a charity to participate in research, conclude that its program doesn’t work, and publicize those results to donors"
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Put together a list of emerging trends in public sector innovation thanks to
@States_Change
. Couldn't avoid a hat tip to
@CassieRobinson
@piacandrews
@DarkMatter_Labs
@dhofstetter_x
@DemosHelsinki
@MicheledAlena
@OffentligInno
@carolyn_tacsi
#psilabs
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