The networked public servant
** Update – if you want to know how to network well, Mary has a great guide ** One of the most popular books about the social media powered digital revolution is Groundswell, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Published…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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How can technology support public sector collaboration?
Last week’s webinar went fairly well, I’d like to think. You can judge for yourself by watching it below – it’s split up into two parts, probably because I talk too much. To be able to read the slides it’s…
Nothing’s really new…
A quick post as I am preparing my slides for the knowledge management talk I’m delivering on Thursday. In the slides, one of the key points is that the internet from the very beginning was designed as a tool for…
If place is a system, let’s make it an open source one
This is a post that has been brewing for a long while, so sorry if it smells a bit. The basic concept hit me during FutureGov‘s excellent CityCamp London event, and keeps reoccurring as I have chats with people and…
If not skunkworks, then maybe creative collaborations?
On my recent two posts on bringing the idea of skunkworks to local government, several people made the extremely reasonable point that I probably wasn’t really talking about skunkworks at all. Steph said in the comments: …it seems to me…
Building an innovation culture
One of the best blogs I read regularly on innovation is 100% Open. The latest post there is a pretty interesting one on building an innovation culture. The tips are: Focus on fostering a viral innovation culture one person/team at…
We need more councillors, not less
The MJ reports on Buckinghamshire County Council’s successful bid to reduce the number of members elected to it, from 57 to 49, in the name of cost cutting. County deputy leader Bill Chapple said: ‘I’m delighted the commission is taking…
What would a local government skunk works look like?
So my post about whether local government needs skunk works got quite a reaction both in the comments and on Twitter, so it’s obviously something people are interested in discussing. How can we move the debate forward? Let me sketch…
Do we need skunkworks in local government?
Simon Dickson has been doing his best to keep us up to date with the government skunkworks, the project to form a tight group of innovators in central government to work on new ideas. If you’re new to the idea…
Whither open government in 2011?
Ingrid has published a set of five rather grim predictions for next year. Go and take a look, and make one of your new year resolutions to stop them from happening. Here are some thoughts from me on what might…