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Alex Roberts on What makes for a good innovation strategy?: “An additional innovation strategy - from Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade https://d3qlm9hpgjc8os.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/03095158/DFAT-Innovation-Strategy-FINAL.pdf” Jan 24, 10:39
Carlos Sá Earp on Audit and innovation: an uneasy relationship: “It's possible to internal audit to build a partnership in a changing and innovative environment. Regulatory agencies faces market innovations,…” Jan 21, 21:42
chea vuthna on Audit and innovation: an uneasy relationship: “Agree with you that innovation, one way can be offered by internal auditors but auditees usually try to evade the…” Jan 16, 00:14
Jamie Berryhill on Announcement: #CallforInnovations at the Edge of Government (deadline extended: 21 February 2020): “Hi Julie -- Thanks for your question. Yes, we are looking for projects and initiatives at all levels of government.” Jan 15, 15:15
Julie on Announcement: #CallforInnovations at the Edge of Government (deadline extended: 21 February 2020): “Can we apply if we're working with local governments , not central government, such as municipalities or regions?” Jan 15, 09:49

OPSI Blog

2 December 2019

Rules as Code: Seeking contributions

Last week, OPSI released the “Hello, World: Artificial Intelligence and its use in the Public Sector” primer on AI. This followed our first innovation primer, “Blockchains Unchained”, and explores how this much-hyped but highly complex…

Jamie Berryhill

28 November 2019

Report Launch — OPSI Primer on AI for the Public Sector

AI, Emerging Tech, Updates on the OPSI

Today, we’re excited to formally launch the final version of OPSI’s AI primer: Hello, World: Artificial Intelligence and its Use in the Public Sector. “Hello, World!” is often the very first computer program written by…

Rebecca Santos

28 November 2019

How to make a public sector organisation a ‘Learning Organisation’?

Systems Thinking

Wales is in the midst of a major education reform process. As we know, good education policy is not about perfection on the page, it’s about what happens in the classroom. This is why Wales…

learning organisations Systems Change systems thinking

Alex Roberts

7 November 2019

New Report – the Innovation System of the Public Service of Brazil

Country Studies, Research, Updates on the OPSI

Brazil innovation system Public Sector

Jamie Berryhill

16 October 2019

[Gig]: Seeking author for a paper on the uncertain promise of blockchain for government (1 November)

Emerging Tech

tl;dr: We are looking for a consultant to write a paper on the uncertain promise of blockchain in government, covering success factors for projects that still show promise, and lessons learned from those that…

Kevin Richman

9 October 2019

Latvia ‘Declares to Innovate’…and gets to work!

Event, Innovation Declaration

Recently, OPSI travelled to Latvia to participate in the top-level managers conference “Dare + experiment + create = innovation.” This event, hosted by the State Chancellery and #GovLabLatvia, sought to further build the innovative capacity…