This guide provides a detailed methodology for conducting effective and innovative data science projects in the public domain. The guide is divided into four phases: understanding the problem, designing the proposed solution, developing the pilot and implementing the solution. In each of these phases, detailed steps and practical tools are presented to ensure the success of the project. In addition, the guide includes ethical and data security considerations to ensure that the project is carried…
User Type: Policy maker or adviser
This resource provides users with essential principles to ensure inclusivity when building a digital participation platform. The guide puts forward rules on how to communicate inclusively, guidelines on how to build an inclusive questionnaire, tips on how to combine offline and online participation and ensure representation, practical measures to build adaptable digital solutions and real-life examples for inspiration. It includes guidance and tips on how to identify groups at risk of exclusion,…
Participatory budgeting is a community engagement method for governments looking to make their communities more inclusive and participatory. This guide provides key steps for developing a defined, efficient and effective participatory budgeting process, real-life examples and best practices and an interactive worksheet to get you started. By organizing a participatory budget, public officials can tap directly into the collective intelligence of their communities and align the allocation of…
This Handbook for Working Innovatively in Public Administration guides you through the different phases of an innovation process. It contains templates and working documents tailored to the needs of public administrations. They explain various innovation methods, describe what is needed to apply these methods, detail how to actually implement these methods, and highlight what results can be expected. From preparation and team building, to research and brainstorming, to the development and…
This Playbook compiles over 120 short exercises, games, scenarios, checklists and handouts to help individuals and teams discuss, learn, and share all aspects of the data lifecycle. The Playbook is divided into 10 modules that can be modified to suit individual needs and composed of facilitator tips to help strengthen data capacity. The resource is modular and includes specific exercises and example workshop templates. This content is also available in Arabic.
The toolbox for designing digital services is intended to help public service owners, managers and other interested parties understand the design process and includes tools to make the process smooth. The process is described both in Estonian and English but tools are only in Estonian, which can be machine translated. The resource includes guidance on preparation and building a service team, understanding and choosing a focus, problem identification and solving, testing solutions, development of…
This cookbook of strategies for change is about the role that a strong public innovation system plays along the pathways towards sustainable food systems.
The publishers demonstrate this through a mission approach for deliberate food system transformation that can support people, planet and society. This strategy cookbook includes templates for developing interventions, guides for how to get started and examples of cross-cutting projects – that can be used to create recipes for change. The…
The Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) Resource Lab contains over 250 resources (such as tools, interactive canvases and narrative guides) structured across five components:
1. Systems, anticipation and transformative theory of change
2. Experimentation in policies and programmes
3. Evaluation using transformative outcomes
4. Capabilities - personal, organisation, and facilitating contestation
5. Knowledge communities and infrastructures
The resource includes lessons for the design and…
This toolkit is designed to help governments implement the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies. By comparing good practices across OECD countries, this site guides decision-makers in using digital technologies to encourage innovation, transparency and efficiency in the public sector.
The toolkit is composed of 12 principles to support the development and implementation of digital government strategies that bring governments closer to citizens and businesses, good practices and…
The OECD-OPSI Innovation Playbook offers an accessible, actionable and user-centred instrument to translate the OECD Declaration on Public Sector Innovation into practical guidance on how its principles can be applied to solve public sector challenges. The Innovation Playbook offers an entry point to help governments identify where they can build and leverage innovative capacities to solve present and emerging challenges. Intended for top officials and middle-managers, it helps users assess and…