Innovation Tag: Cross-Sector Partnerships

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.

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.

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.

In an increasingly divisive and polarised world, the annual nationwide Conversation festival LAMPA in Latvia has become an outstanding platform for discussing matters of societal concern about Latvia, Europe and the world in face-to-face conversations. Co-created by a diverse array of civil society organisations, public authorities and private companies, the festival opens up policy-making processes to wider audiences and creates an open platform for direct engagement among people in Latvia.

The multichannel and omnichannel virtual help center is a solution that remotely enables entrepreneurs to contact professional assistance in matters related to administrative procedures. The Help Center supports foreign users in English.

MAGMA Indonesia is an system that streamlines the process of geological hazard mitigation. It raises the bar on the standard of data monitoring and management for Indonesian government agencies. MAGMA digitizes relevant geological data into integrated databases, making them easier to analyze and use. Frequent readings and analytics can now be made ready in an almost-real-time manner. As a public service, MAGMA makes geological hazard mitigation and assessment available for free, anytime and…