JUST IN: Public sector innovation system scan of Latvia

Our latest innovation scan, undertaken in partnership with the EU's Directorate General for Structural Reform Support, explores the public sector innovation journey of Latvia. The scan reflects on how innovation can be driven, supported and accelerated in a country context; showcasing approaches to innovation stewardship and highlighting determinants of innovative activity.

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Featured Toolkit: Visual Toolbox for System Innovation

Struggling to structure and manage innovation in the face of complex climate and sustainability related challenges? This toolkit, designed by EIT Climate-KIC helps practitioners to deeply understand and problem solve around climate and environmental problems; focusing on both organizational strategies and methods to encourage participatory engagement.

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Featured Case Study: ARENA A-Lab

A-Lab is an initiative spearheaded by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency that brings together people working in the energy sector and helps them drive systemic change towards a more renewable future. Drawing upon a vast network of practitioners and industry experts, A-Lab fosters collaboration and innovation through an emphasis on collaborative design and intelligent networking.

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Upcoming Events

• ANZSOG and Centre For Public Impact Series Webinar: Reimagining Government: Failing Forward, 16 March 2021 at 10:00am AEDT - Learn from city leaders, leading academics and public servants about how governments can create a culture that supports and even encourages failure as a productive and inherent part of successful innovation.
• The Creative Bureaucracy Festival, 13 - 17 September 2021 - The Creative Bureaucracy Festival brings together bureaucrats and their allies to celebrate outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.

Latest on the OPSI Blog

• Rules as Code forum for government officials - OPSI has launched a new forum for government and IGO officials interested in Rules as Code (RaC). We recently spoke with the New South Wales government and the Australian Society for Computers and Law on their current RaC initiatives
• Wasted Futures - Learn how to make the most of the future in present policymaking and discover how the ‘impact gap’ prevents us from preparing in the present by leveraging anticipatory innovation methods.
• Trust, civic space and anticipation – three perspectives on systems change in Finland - Anticipating citizens' trust can be a challenging task. Learn how Finland was able to strengthen its civic space and use anticipatory innovation governance to strengthen confidence between citizens and government.

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The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation is an initiative of the Directorate for Public Governance of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Observatory is co-funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union (grant number 671526).