The Better Government Movement (BGM), housed on Innovation.gov, builds a 21st century, delivery-driven government. BGM creates an inclusive space where public servants can grow their creative capacity and learn new tools, approaches, and mindsets to jumpstart innovation. This is in service of solving government-wide problems and affecting positive change within agencies and government writ large.
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GOV.UK Verify is a secure way for people to prove who they are online. It enables people to create a ‘digital identity’ that can be trusted by public or private sector organisations. We have worked to align and map identity standards and ensure that GOV.UK Verify can be internationally interoperable.
CivTech is the Scottish Government’s challenge programme for innovation. The programme pioneers a smarter, faster approach to public procurement to harness entrepreneurial tech innovation and citizen engagement, improving public service delivery, creating economic development opportunities and fostering an entrepreneurial mindset within government.
The sick leave e-certificate was introduced to reduce the administrative burden related to the processing of sick-leave paper certificates, both for institutions and inhabitants, as well to provide complete data on issued certificates in Latvia. Since 2018 sick-leave certificate are issued only electronically in the national E-health system which provides processing and circulation of certificates electronically among health care institutions, patients, employees and social insurance…
In meeting our own online identity and access management requirements the Department developed MyGovID as a single online account for all government bodies in Ireland.
The innovation was in building a trust framework that provides a high level of assurance to government agencies. Customers accessing online services only have to sign up once.
MyGovID was developed as a responsive user experience using a cloud based identity and access management service.
In response to a failing property market, Limerick City and County Council took the ambitious step to create the first, Local Authority wholly owned special purpose vehicle created in Ireland to deliver a city and countywide programme of property investment. It required the local authority to take on the role of developer of derelict properties in the core of the city setting up this legal entity and raising the investment funding needed to develop key strategic sites.
This online course seeks to foster an innovation ecosystem in Bogota’s public offices, offering Bogota’s public officials the tools to gain capacities for public innovation.
Through practical exercises that are related to drawing and mapping, among others, public officials gain insight on ways to approach the users of public services.
The Australian Government piloted and developed MyService, a simple, intuitive and innovative digital solution significantly improving veterans' experience when accessing Health Care, Compensation, Income Support and Commemorations for war veterans, members of the Australian Defence Force, their dependants and certain members of the Australian Federal Police. It empowers veterans by helping them get the assistance they need with less stress and increased trust in the outcomes.
UNDP - Live Lebanon in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, the National Council for Road Safety and MTV (media partner), introduced a new pothole patching technology called "Velocity" and launched a campaign called "Ensa Joura". whereby citizens can pinpoint potholes using a mobile application. The state of the art truck will go to the reported locations and instantly fix the potholes.
CONSUL is an online platform for public participation in decision-making, launched initially by the Madrid city council and subsequently adopted by several governments all over the world. The platform benefits from its open source code, making it free for any government, or CSO, to make use of it and propose improvements. CONSUL is designed for citizens to voice their concerns and participate through the development of proposals, votes for new laws, debates, crowd laws, participatory budgets…