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Medicinal products, due to their nature, have potential for side effects along with therapeutic effects even when they are used correctly. Since 19 Dec 2014, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) and Korea Institute of Drug Safety & Risk Management (KIDS) have instituted Adverse Drug Reaction(ADR) Relief System to help people inflicted by such side effects to receive aid without legal action.
Korean government has been calling for the innovation of education and training system to narrow the gap between school education and employers’ requirements and to address the high youth unemployment rate issue. The Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Human Resources Development Service of Korea introduced the Work-Learning Dual System in 2013. It was adopted to get rid of mismatches between school education and workplaces based on the National Competency Standards led by companies.
The service concept is based on findings in two previous studies in the field of social housing conducted in Sarpsborg: The findings showed that our municipal services were fragmented and complex. But, they also showed that the number of homeless in Sarpsborg was lower than the average on a regional and national scale. Housing conditions are of importance for people’s lives, health development. We decided to do more of what we did well, and improve it. This brought about the project Way Home.
The reason for the development and launch of our e-solutions was to facilitate the collection of initiatives and proposals to eliminate administrative burdens and review their implementation in one place. Our innovation provides users with an on-line one-stop-shop solution, where they receive all information about activities in eliminating administrative burdens and preparing better legislation, and enables systematic collection, resolution and monitoring of implementation of proposals.
Two decades ago, 80% of Indonesia’s timber exports consisted of illegally-sourced wood. In order to combat this problem and to promote more sustainable forest management, the Government of Indonesia developed an innovative multi-stakeholder approach to ensure that wood products and raw materials would only be obtained or come from sources whose origins and management were legal and sustainable. Thus, the Timber Legality Assurance System (Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu – SVLK) was born.
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.
Better Reykjavik is a co-creation project of the Citizens Foundation, Reykjavik City and its citizens that connects them and improves trust and policy. It’s a platform for crowdsourcing solutions to urban challenges and has multiple democratic functions: Agenda setting, Participatory budgeting and Policymaking. Innovations include unique debating system, crowd-sourcing, submission of multimedia content and extensive use of AI to improve the user experience as well as content submitted.