Category Archives: Events
Register for GovCamp 2013
Do you want to meet and mix with over 100 other people interested in the public sector doing things better? Do you want to hear from leaders and expert practitioners and thinkers about innovation and change in the public sector? To participate in a day of talks, workshops and panel […]
Innovation Month 2013 – Mark the dates!
Are you interested in new and different ideas about how to do things in the public sector? Do you want to hear from others about new ways of thinking, designing, and delivering services? Would you like to connect with others who share your interest in exploring how things could be […]
APS Policy Visualisation Network Meeting 21st March 2013
Do you want to know more about how to harness the visual as well as the textual in analysing, advising and engaging on policy? If so, why not come and hear about how visualisation can assist in developing and delivering better policy outcomes. The second meeting of the APS Policy […]
Using Randomised Control Trials to Evaluate Public Policy
How can we in the public service best assess whether a specific intervention has worked – or has worked better than what is already available and is also cost-effective? On Thursday 31 January, the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education and the Department of Education and Workplace […]
Insights from London Conference
Just before Christmas I posted some thoughts about several interesting meetings I’d had with public sector designers and innovators in London a few weeks earlier. I also mentioned I’d spent a day when there at an Inside Government conference: Future Councils – New Ways of Working and Delivering Public Services […]
SES Workshop with Design Firm [toughproblem]
On Wednesday 12 December, the Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design hosted a workshop for members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) from across the Australian Public Service to learn about design thinking from Peter Vozvoteca and Andrew Barter of Brisbane based design firm [toughproblem].1 The workshop covered off […]
Innovation and Design Insights – Visit by Christian Bason
Question – what do the UK, US, Singapore and Australia have in common? Answer – one of the things in common is that all of these countries now have government innovation labs incorporating behavioural insights, design and experimentation. On Friday November 9, some of us in Canberra met with Christian […]
Institute of Public Administration Australia International Congress 2012
A two day conference on public administration may appear, on the face of it, nothing to write home about. However, the Institute of Public Administration Australia International Congress 2012, in Melbourne from 18-20 September, promised something a little different, including a former United Nations Under Secretary, the writer and director […]
Design & Thinking Screening
What is design thinking and why does it matter? On Thursday 20 September over 100 public servants and interested others came together at the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to watch a documentary film that attempts to answer that question. The film, Design & Thinking, was the result […]