2020 - Observatory of Public Sector Innovation Observatory of Public Sector Innovation

20 August 2020

Paving the way for #GovAfterShock

The last few months have been a period of immense growth and learning, personally and within governments and organisations. This crisis has demonstrated an overwhelming need, opportunity and business case for why innovation is essential and possible in…

OPSI Guest Blogger

3 August 2020

Moving from sprint to marathon: Lessons learned from the German #wirvsvirus hackathon and its implementation program

Covid-19, Event, How to innovate

This OPSI guest blog, written by Thomas Gegenhuber (Leuphana University Lüneburg/Johannes Kepler University Linz), Johanna Mair (Hertie School/Stanford University), Rene Lührsen (Hertie School/Leuphana University Lüneburg) and Laura Thäter Lührsen (Hertie School/Leuphana University Lüneburg) shares insights…

Benjamin Kumpf

24 July 2020

Trade-offs and considerations for the future: Innovation and the COVID-19 response

Covid-19

As part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in the lead-up to Government After Shock, OPSI is seeking and collecting different reflections and perspectives about the crisis and its implications for governments –…

Fingers exploring a map of interconnected nodes and elements.

Kent Aitken

21 July 2020

Sensemaking possibilities #2: tools and analyses to support local and global sensemaking

Updates on the OPSI

Recently I posted about a sensemaking project to collect, curate, and provide tools to understand and contextualize the many ideas emerging from the COVID-19 crisis. Over the past months, there has been a deluge of…

Documents and sticky notes scattered across a table

Kent Aitken

16 July 2020

Country scan: the public sector innovation system of Latvia

Country Studies, Updates on the OPSI

The Observatory is conducting an analysis of the public sector innovation system of Latvia, and we would like to share a project overview and update for anyone interested in innovation systems, the research approach, or how international lessons…

Kent Aitken

9 July 2020

Dialogue session #1: States of Change Learning Festival

Covid-19, Event, Government After Shock, Interview

In a year marked by sudden and massive change, there is a duty amidst all the turmoil to take stock of what public governance gaps are revealed, and where we can learn lessons. At the…

2020 After Shock Dialogue Network