INTRODUCING GOVSCAPE

John Wells — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:53:21 +0000

GovScape is a new type of public-purpose knowledge start-up.

The GovScape social knowledge initiative is being built in alliance with successful programs like Gov20 Radio and GovCamp together with over five years of journey by the X360 team and their public innovation networks.

Its thematic focus will be on:

Public sphere momentum
Public-purpose innovation
Public sector transformation

Shaping the collective journey

Most importantly, the most ambitious part of GovScape is the aspect that everyone can also make happen: participation.

GovScape is about mobilising and amplifying what we call ’social knowledge’… living, dynamic intelligence learned and shared through the collective experience of public sphere thought leaders and practitioners. It’s something we’re all part of whenever we meet up with others at events, share ideas online or write long-form papers.

GovScape is about taking a more mindful, strategic and collaborative approach to such open, social knowledge sharing.

It will support policy-makers and public service practitioners in:

communicating their priorities and learnings in fresh, engaging ways
more easily contributing to as well as consuming collective knowledge
leveraging the ’public value’ of their work through accessing case studies of best practice as well as emergent practice

GovScape programs will be exploring themes such as:

Exchanging Contributing Collaborating Bridging Understanding

Exchanging

How can we exchange stories across jurisdictions and borders as well as the boundaries of language and culture; to discover new approaches and mine nuggets of relevant applicable experience?

Contributing

How can we contribute to helping our peers in emerging economy communities where their systems, experience and resources may seem limited while free from legacy mindsets?

Collaborating

How can we collaborate with universities and other centres of learning and research to amplify their work more deeply and broadly into the world of practitioners?

Bridging

How can we bridge the public sector with the wider public sphere to exchange narrative, appreciate mutual priorities and experience effective collaboration and co-innovation?

Understanding

How can we understand the world of the digital technology gurus and geeks as well as the world of the strategic policy development, program design/ delivery and social problem solvers?

MAPPING THE PUBLIC INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

Allison Hornery — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:53:21 +0000

The recent GovCampAU Innovation Dialogues kicked off a process of enquiry to better understand the current landscape and nature of public sector innovation. Using the work of Christian Bason in his book Leading Public Sector Innovation, public purpose practitioners from around Australia workshopped the following questions:

What are the current TRIGGERS for public sector innovation – and what perhaps should be?
Where are TYPES of public sector innovation happening – and where should they?
How do we VALUE public sector innovation – and how should we?

While a preliminary analysis of this exercise shows some useful trends within individual cities as well as across the country, we see value in extending this social knowledge process into a deeper understanding of the dynamic ecosystem that exists within this landscape.

So, we’re kicking off a national, open initiative to comprehensively map the public sector innovation ecosystem. The initiative will be supported by a national advisory team including the Australian Innovation Research Centre and the Behavioural Insights Group, and offers an opportunity for public sector practitioners to take part in an ‘action research’ program with practical, tangible value to their day-to-day work.

Interested in being part of the team? Let us know soon – we’ll be starting to scope the program in the countdown to the national GovCamp LiVE event at the end of November.

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