Predictiv is a web platform that enables governments to test whether new policies and interventions work with an online population before they are deployed in the real world. The tests take 1 to 2 weeks to complete, enabling policymakers and Ministers to get answers to questions that would have taken months (or years) to answer in the past.
Country: United Kingdom
The Global Innovation Policy Accelerator is a UK government-funded development programme building a worldwide network of collaborative senior innovation policy ‘entrepreneurs’, introducing the latest thinking through practical projects, and using international collaboration to accelerate system-wide change. It is delivered by a ‘best of UK system’ consortium of UK organisation in 14 countries.
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.
We have brought together all data projects into a single programme to provide strategic oversight and a common vision. This encompasses a number of projects which are driving the department to better enabling data sharing, creating comparable datasets, open up our data for others to use and connecting our own data with others- transforming the way DCLG’s data can be used.
The What Works Network is a new initiative to improve the use of high quality evidence when government makes decisions about public services. It is one of the first times any government has prioritised evidence to inform policy and practice through a national approach.
The Data Science Accelerator is a capability-building programme which gives analysts from across the UK public sector the opportunity to develop their data science skills. Aspiring data scientists work on a project of real business value, supported by an experienced mentor. Graduates of the programme take their new-found skills back to their respective organisations.
The Justice Data Lab (JDL) is a service that statistically evaluates the impact of rehabilitation interventions, by providing secure access to sensitive data and technical analysis to the NGO sector and beyond. The JDL publishes such robust evidence to help inform the bigger picture in what works to reduce reoffending.
The Social Outcomes Fund (SOF), launched in 2012, was the world’s first Social Impact Bond (SIB) linked to government outcomes. This £20m fund catalysed the use of SIBs to address complex social issues in the UK by helping to align local and central government budgets. Today, the UK has had over 50 SIBs helping to improve people’s lives across the UK, and a substantial proportion of this growth has been stimulated by SOF.
The ground-breaking 100,000 Genomes Project is a highly ambitious programme that has established the UK as the global leader in genomic medicine. Focussing on rare diseases and common cancers, the Project provided a proof of concept for establishing a fully integrated Genomic Medicine Service in the UK National Health Service, the first health service in the world to offer whole genome sequencing for some conditions.