The Citizen Innovation Labs (Laboratorios de Innovación Ciudadana - LABIC) are a methodology to generate innovative solutions between citizens and institutions for the common good. They utilise a method to experiment, collaborate and accelerate innovative projects that emerge from citizens and have the potential to generate useful solutions to social, cultural, environmental and economic challenges. These solutions focus on the most pressing issues of the 2030 agenda and they are replicable,…
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As part of the national plan for the digital transformation of education in Greece, the Greek Ministry of Education's technical body designed and developed “e-me”, a social, collaborative, and extendable cloud-based digital educational platform for pupils and teachers. The goal was for e-me to provide a safe digital workspace and collaboration environment for the entire Greek K-12 community of 150.000 teachers and 1.5M pupils and, thus, to operate as the Greek public official digital…
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Cultural and technological transformation of the criminal justice service in the province of Buenos…
The innovation was developed to solve the difficulties encountered by citizens in accessing the criminal justice service and thus contribute to regenerating the confidence in the system. The cultural and technological transformation of this service increases the quality of the citizen's experience and the judicial agent involved. Buenos Aires' Public Prosecutor's Office applied emerging technologies and innovative management techniques and achieved a more agile, productive, and efficient…
More than 80% of the residents in residential elderly care suffer from unwanted urine loss. This is why care staff check on them regularly, day and night. In order to minimize these disturbing and time-consuming incontinence rounds, the residential care organization Zorg-Saam set out to test new incontinence solutions equipped with sensor technologies that detect when bandages are saturated and alert care staff. With this innovation, supported by the The Programme for Innovation Procurement of…
The Digital Hub: Accelerating Digital Municipalities (Hub digital: Acelerando Municipios Digitales) seeks to accelerate digital transformation in the Chilean municipal sector through the connection with startups. Using corporate venturing as a linkage mechanism benefiting the municipalities and communities themselves, for a solution will improve the quality of services provided to neighbors. Although corporate venturing is widely used in the private sector, we seek to validate its results in the…
The Innovation Fund for Development (Fonds d'Innovation pour le Développement) is a new and ambitious funding mechanism. It offers grants to innovators and researchers to experiment, take strategic risks and demonstrate the impact of solutions aimed at reducing poverty and inequality. It enables teams from all types of organisations to test new ideas and put innovation and research at the service of transforming public development policies.
Singapore has set its sights on becoming a world-class, tech-driven city-state, and it is doing so through the Smart Nation ambition, which seeks to harness technology to bring benefits from digital transformation in society, economy and government to how people and businesses live, work and play. The Open Digital Platform (ODP) is a key component in the digital infrastructure underpinning Singapore’s Smart Nation ambition. The ODP takes an integrated masterplan approach from the ground up,…
Enhanced access to public service delivery for citizens forms the very core of good and responsive governance. However, this often becomes a challenge, as, accessing government services can be a hassle for citizens. Citizens can experience long queues at government offices, inconsistencies in the required documentation, among others. ‘Doorstep Delivery of Public Services’ was designed to solve this problem. The program allows citizens to access government services from the comfort of their…
Digitization of administrative procedures of the public administration drastically and positively impacts the operation of registry offices, the centers of public services, and the overall interaction of citizens and businesses with their government. However, developing a National Registry of Administrative Procedures is a huge challenge for all governments that want to systematize and simplify their processes. The Greek Registry of Administrative Procedures and Services, also known as MITOS…
Smart School Nutrition (Alimentação Escolar Inteligente - AEI) is a web application and platform that supports school to avoid food waste and contributes to a balanced school nutrition through its intelligent menu creation and food stock management assistant. According to Brazil without Hunger (Brasil sem Fome), there are 33 million families suffering from hunger and 125 million living with food insecurity. This is happening in a context where one third of the world's food is being wasted…