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Out in California, Tina Lee asked about the best definition for civic innovation. As someone who has served as a fellow in the City of San Francisco’s Department of Technology Services, Lee has some personal context and interest. According her tweets, she wants to distill the various definitions available online down to one working... [read more]
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The other day I was urging that we do something or other and got the response: "You're so cutting-edge." It wasn't a compliment. In the government, innovation can be scary. But we can do it if we focus on the "how" - meaning the technology platforms we can use to move us forward. Thinking about technology, rather than the... [read more]
Thanks to Redbox we were enjoying family movie night and the show was a third of the way through. In this scene the main characters have to go to the local government office and get some help. Right away the first word out of the clerk's mouth is "No." They peer over at her workstation. "Why not?" says one. "Because it's not in the... [read more]
What do inner city tower blocks, the thematic classroom curriculum, Britain’s membership of the ERM and the reckless credit boom all have in common? They were, in their different ways, each pretty disastrous. Public policy mistakes that inflicted a great deal of harm. Yet more than that, each one was an... [read more]
A coalition of think tanks–The Breakthrough Institute, Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute, along with the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)–today organized a conference of policy makers, scientists and business people in Washington to talk about a big question: how to stimulate energy innovation. The... [read more]
During incidents, everyone counts on cops to be quick, strong and competent. But overall, we should also hope they’re familiar with science, math and technology concepts. Every day, we’re seeing significant advances in technology and it’s critical for public safety personnel to understand the many helpful tools rapidly becoming... [read more]
The 2010 Global Cities Forum, hosted by Mayor Daley of Chicago, has become a key international forum that attracts leaders from global cities like Paris, Amman, Shenyang, Moscow and Abu Dhabi . This year’s conference focused on many topics that concern mayors of global cities, and on the first day, the mayors themselves came... [read more]
The Public Sector Innovation Network email list (run by the Department of Innovation - you can subscribe from their website) sends out some very interesting articles about innovation every week. This week one in particular caught my eye, a piece entitled The Biggest Obstacle to Innovation that looks at inertia and how this may... [read more]
An interesting exchange online happened last week after the wonderful Robert Brook posted a piece on his site entitled ‘Boring Innovation‘ – all about how innovation can best happen within large, complex organisations, like those you tend to find in government. It’s well worth reading in full, here’s a snippet: How about this: a two-... [read more]
One of the things I learned working on the Reinventing Government initiative in the 1990s for Vice President Gore was that civil servants do some pretty amazing things. And they get little recognition for it. But now it’s time to make government cool again! There has long been recognition for top career senior executives,... [read more]
There was a fair amount of chatter among my friends last week as a result of Lawrence Martin's column column If there's an inspiration deficit in our politics, blame it on the young. My friend Alison Loat wrote an excellent, albeit polite, response, pointing out that blame could be spread across sectors and generations. She's right... [read more]
The EU launched a new website last week as part of an online debate to discuss new ideas for future innovation policy. The site aims to gather proposals on how to stimulate and promote innovation throughout the EU. This debate, and the ideas it generates, will then feed into a final report to the European Commission on how to shape the... [read more]
US federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, has outlined a blueprint for government data at the 2009 Government Web Managers conference.As reported in GCN, Kundra advised that, Government data prepared for public reuse should be offered in multiple-formats, be machine-readable and adhere as closely as possible to lightweight... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
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I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...