Ireland’s Open Data Initiative (ODI) is a key element of the government’s Public Service Reform activities. It aims to increase transparency, stimulate new business, build trust in Government and improve the lives of citizens by delivering better services. The ODI involves significant engagement with citizens, business, the data community, researchers and public bodies. Over 8700 datasets from 100 publishers are available on the ODI Portal which provides free access to data via a central…
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The establishment of the Civil Service Management Board (CSMB) was a pivotal step in setting the future direction of strategic leadership in the Irish civil service. The CSMB enabled all Secretaries General/Heads of Offices, for the first time, to meet collectively to have strategic discussions on issues affecting all Government Departments and Offices. The CSMB implements the Civil Service Renewal Plan (CSRP), which seeks to tackle the biggest challenges facing the Irish civil service.
FÉILTE (Festival of Education in Learning and Teaching Excellence) was developed because teachers are innovating and wish to share their learning. But teaching has been an isolated profession. Research indicates that we are not good at sharing learning across the public sector.
FÉILTE is a celebration of teaching and learning by teachers for teachers, students and parents. FÉILTE shares teaching so as to connect learning.
We the Citizens is a democratic participatory project to ignite citizen involvement in democracy in Ireland. A pilot project found striking shifts in how participants feel about their ability to influence politics. The project tested whether a more participatory form of democracy could work in Ireland at a time when people felt adrift and disconnected from power. In the project, a representative group of citizens were randomly chosen to attend a Citizens’ Assembly in June 2011.