Innovation Tag: Cross-Sector Partnerships

In the face of the talent deficit faced by the productive sector in the digital era, PLAi seeks to develop the skills required for Jalisco to consolidate itself as a hub of innovation. It offers training to the economically active population through partnerships with national and international institutions. It is innovative because it takes advantage of good practices of private initiative and the public sector, as well as technological and educational advances in the world and brings everything…

Data Mexico was developed to integrate and transform public and private sector data to enable a better understanding of the economic and social context. The platform facilitates strategic decision-making through key evidence and integrating databases with technologies for aggregating, filtering and reorganising information. In this way, it innovates in public access to data, contributing to the development, diversification and promotion of the Mexican economy.

In Estonia, there are a number of people who do not know how to speak the official language well enough. This prevents people from finding a better job, participating in Estonian cultural life, communicating with Estonians, and finding personal fulfilment. The goal of the project was to understand the needs of an adult language learner to then know how to organize language education for them so that it helps them better acquire the Estonian language. As a result, a common agreement that improves…

The Finish Government established a network-based Competence Centre for Sustainable and Innovative Public Procurement (KEINO) in 2018. The Centre provides, free of charge, advisory services to public procurers, promotes the strategic importance of procurement competencies in public management, facilitates creation of buyers’ groups among procurers, and disseminates information and good practices. The network consists of five public organisations.

The Machinery Price Catalogue is an electronic tool designed by the Rural Support Service of Latvia (RSS) to make purchases of machinery and equipment for farmers more simple and convenient. The Catalogue facilitates the beneficiaries' procurement process for the purchase of machinery and equipment. For beneficiaries, there is no procurement procedure required and it is now easy to choose the appropriate machinery for the farm, evaluating its capacity and pricing. The approach also reduces time…

This initiative was created to accelerate the decarbonisation process of the energy and transport sectors in Colombia and work on the training and technicalization process for multiple sectors of society involved. A total process of decarbonisation of the energy and transport sectors cannot be possible if working in a single line. Carbon Neutral Pathway (Camino Hacía Carbono Neutral - CHCN) works with a broad range of stakeholders, including public officials, journalists, academics,…

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…

In Bangladesh, mismatch between the demand and supply sides is considered to be the key reason behind unemployment and inefficiencies of the labour market. National Intelligence for Skills, Education, Employment and Entrepreneurship (NISE), a one-stop data driven matchmaking platform, bridges the gap between demand and supply sides and thus benefits all relevant stakeholders. This unique platform caters for the needs of youth, policymakers, skills service providers and industry by enabling…

The Unique Scholarship Portal (Portal Único de Becas “Beca tu Futuro”) is a web platform that aims to concentrate all scholarship opportunities in a single portal. In this way, it documents and manages everything from the publication of the call for applications to the awarding of scholarships. The portal benefits all the citizens of the Dominican Republic who wish to apply for a scholarship. Moreover, the portal serves as a management tool for the scholarships' evaluators and the…

Singapore's Government developed OpenAttestation, an open-source framework to support endorsement and verification of documents using the blockchain. With this, an easy and reliable way to issue and validate tamper-proof certificates is readily available to the Government as well as any adopters locally or internationally.