Innovation Tag: Cross-Sector Partnerships

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…

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.

Emilia-Romagna’s Digital Agenda led a significant innovation process for public administration decision-making. The process resulted in a co-design phase with local administrations to structure and publish online the first geo-referenced regional Observatory on ultra-broadband connectivity in Italy. Multi-stakeholder participation made it possible to identify and highlight the various strengths and weaknesses of the tool, enabling its optimisation.

The Local Wealth Building Challenge Fund is designed to provide financial and non-financial support to develop new products and services to tackle challenges. One aspect of this Challenge Fund which is unusual is the focus on developing innovations that will be procured by the challenge holder, providing additional incentives and focus. Public and third sector organizations often have issues that can be solved not by getting new skills or more workers, but by being innovative. The Challenge…

The Acolhe Programme offers private network accommodation for women in situations of violence in more than 230 municipalities in Brazil in partnership with municipal networks for confronting violence. In addition to offering reception, the programme acts on the municipality's referral flow by demanding a public response to the problem and offering qualification.

The pandemic has caused a significant increase in amount of people living on the street, who often have no documents and makes access to justice difficult. Pop Rua Jud brought together justice organisms and other public agencies in the same place to prevent citizens from being referred from one public agency to another, without solving their problem. It was innovative in that it brought together almost 50 federal, state and municipal public institutions, as well as civil society organisations,…

Brazilian Challenges Platform (PLataforma Desafios) is an initiative of the Government Innovation Division, GNova, of the National School of Public Administration (Enap), which offers help to public managers to innovate together with society, taking advantage of collective intelligence to reduce the insecurities of the innovation process and increase the chances of success. The Challenges Platform recognises, rewards and disseminates innovative solutions, through a process similar to…