Monthly Archives: August 2011
Weekly Bits of Interest – 29 August 2011
Developments and articles of interest from last week: The Australian Government’s Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government released the myregion website. Please note that this is the first release of myregion. Additional features will be developed and added over coming months. We would also appreciate your thoughts and ideas on how to improve […]
Weekly bits of interest – 22 August 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: An interesting article from a designer’s perspective on how organisations often fail to innovate because they ignore their real problems. Making waves in the UK is the ‘HM Government skunkworks’ project that aims to spread radical innovation across the public sector. The […]
Weekly Bits of Interest – 15 August 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Sometimes the best innovations can be the most fun! ProRail (the Dutch rail maintenance company) have come up with a simple but efficient way to ‘accelerate transit’ The British government has waded into the IP debate and is looking to ‘enact significant […]
Update on the APSII Project
My name is Dorothea Huber and I have been part of the Australian Public Sector Innovation Indicators (APSII) Project Team since January 2011. As it has been more than six months since our last blog post on this topic I thought it is time to update you on where the […]
Weekly Bits of Interest – 8 August 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: A good piece by Tim Kastelle on why innovation must create value and not just novelty The Queensland police have released a report on the use of social media in managing disaster situations. Craig Thomler makes the bold statement that “It may […]
Evaluation of the Australian Public Service Public Sector Innovation Blog
This blog recently had its one year birthday, the same time as it became part of the broader Toolkit site. The blog was a bit of an experiment, but one that we think has gone quite well and has been a valuable process for us – hence why we have […]
Embedding design and co-creation in the APS – co-creation and design position
Are you interested in public sector innovation? Have you knowledge and experience of co-creation/design? Do you want to come and join our team? If the answer to these three questions is yes, then we have an opportunity for you. We have a vacancy for a non-ongoing Executive Level 1 position […]
Weekly bits of interest – 1 August 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The website GovernmentExecutive.com has released a report on ten apps that are changing government (US-based). Jeffrey Phillips looks at the question of when will the innovation fad end, and argues that innovation is actually the new normal. “Innovation still suffers from an attitude […]
Release of the Australian Innovation System Report 2011
My name is Luke Hendrickson and I am the acting Manager of the team that delivers the Australian Innovation System Report on behalf of the Australian Government each year. I want to let you know that the Australian Innovation System Report 2011 has been released and is available from the Department’s website. This Report […]