Monthly Archives: July 2011
Weekly bits of interest – 25 July 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Last week the NSW division of the Institute for Public Administration Australia (IPAA) held its 2011 State Conference. The conference looked at the role of technology, innovation, services reform and collaboration. You can view webcasts of the presentation on their site, and presenter and attendee Craig Thomler blogged about the […]
DeepDive Workshop – 11 July 2011 Canberra
Last week we hosted a DeepDive workshop with Bill Eggers, in conjunction with the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet and the HC Coombs Policy Forum. Bill Eggers is Global Director for Deloitte Research and Executive Director of Deloitte’s Public Leadership Institute and his recent books on innovation include The […]
Spanning Policy Innovation Through Science And Public Engagement
This post is by Christopher Vas, School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University 1 This short post is to briefly outline some of my experiences from recent visits to academic institutions in the US and with government in Canada. My first visit took me to Stanford University […]
Improving Collaborations: Have your Say!
This post is from James Pitman, a member of a Graduate project team at the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. How do you, as an Australian Public Service (APS) member, engage with researchers? It’s a complicated question with no clearly defined answer. Approaches and guides to communicating with […]
Weekly bits of interest – 18 July 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last two weeks: The US Government has announced their third annual SAVE (Securing Americans Value and Efficiency) Award, which is a contest for federal employees to submit ideas about how to cut waste, save taxpayer dollars, and make government more effective and efficient. Prompted by […]
Weekly bits of interest – 4 July 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The UK’s DotGovLabs Innovation Hub is now open to the public. This crowdsourcing platform aims to nurture digital innovation from outside government and inpire action around particular challenges. The platform is described further in an article about the site. Hutch Carpenter looks at the […]