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16 December 2020

Reflecting on Global Innovation Trends 2020

Covid-19, Global Trends, Government After Shock, Updates on the OPSI

Since 2016, OPSI and the UAE Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation (MBRCGI) have worked in partnership to surface key activities and case studies in public sector innovation, resulting in a series of…

Rowan Conway

15 December 2020

Dispatches from the 2020 Mission Oriented Innovation Bootcamp

H2020, How to innovate, Innovation Facets

This article is jointly published on the UCL IIPP blog. As part of an ongoing partnership between the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) and the OECD’s Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI),…

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Chiara Bleckenwegner

11 December 2020

Putting anticipatory innovation to work: prototyping a starter kit

Anticipatory Innovation, H2020, How to innovate, Innovation Facets, Innovation Toolkit

Many of you working in the public sector may want to prepare for uncertainty, or set up a future-oriented vision in your organisation. Many of you may have heard of anticipatory innovation or have engaged…

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Alex Roberts

3 December 2020

“We’re not going to go back to normal” – Insights from the #GovAfterShock interviews

Covid-19, Government After Shock, H2020, Interview

In the lead up to Government After Shock we undertook a number of interviews with a range of leaders and practitioners to hear about perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic and what the associated crisis was…

Juho Lindman

25 November 2020

The Uncertain Promise of Blockchain for Government

Emerging Tech, Research, Updates on the OPSI

Since late 2019, we have been working to answer the question “why hasn’t blockchain, and its underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT), made a bigger impact in the public sector?”. It has been over two…

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Jamie Berryhill

12 November 2020

Internship Opportunity for France-based candidates (due date 25 November)

Updates on the OPSI

As part of the OECD Internship Programme, OPSI is recruiting one or more interns to join the team in January 2021 (there is some flexibility with start dates and end dates). Specific projects would…