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

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

Alex Roberts

3 July 2020

An invitation to the 2020 After Shock Dialogues Network

Government After Shock

If there’s one thing that I can promise about the year 2020 – and given the past few months of unpredictability, it will probably be only one thing – it is that there is going to be a LOT said…

2020 After Shock Dialogue Network

Call for Innovative Government Responses to COVID-19

Alex Roberts

1 July 2020

COVID-19: Innovative responses update #9

Covid-19

This is our ninth update about innovative responses (including public sector innovation, digital government or open government) being undertaken around the world. Thank you again to all who have contributed in answer to our call and to our partners (including the Centre for Public Impact and GovInsider) for helping…

covid19