Me, Mike Bracken, Tom Loosemore chatting at GDS – part of the LocalGov Digital Visit On Thursday 10th April a small group of the LocalGov Digital Steering Group visited the GDS offices to share our journey, share our outputs, ideas and challenges and start a conversation around how we might be able to work effectivelyRead… Read more »
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Group Decision Tip: High ground
In principle, groups often get bogged down in details (who should do what by when and how) and fail to stay on the high ground (strategic direction and guiding policies). The group as a whole has the unique perspective of seeing all that the group is doing, all the opportunities, all the threats. It isRead… Read more »
Reflecting on thinking and doing
Recently I’ve let myself down by not blogging as much as i feel i need to. The benefit i get from writing a post is actually a process of reflective practice which helps me manage the variety of thoughts going on in my head and i really do need to continue my personal commitment toRead… Read more »
DATA and other Abbreiviations: CBG Round-up, 03.28.2014
Gadi Ben-Yehuda DATA Passes: After the Senate unanimously passed the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (often called the DATA Act, but that’s like saying “ATM Machine,”) Alex Wilhelm of TechCrunch reported that “The original version of the bill passed the House by a vote of 388-1. Given that, the chance of it failing to passRead… Read more »
Interview on GovLoop Innovation Report
We recently read a great interview over at EngagingCities on an interesting report detailing 20 significant innovations made in government last year, and we thought it would interest our NCDD members. We encourage you to read the interview below or find the original post here. In late December, GovLoop released a new report, “The GovLoopRead… Read more »
Questions Elected Officials Ask About Public Engagement
We wanted to encourage you to read the great insights that NCDD organizational member Max Hardy of Twyfords Consulting recently shared on their Twyfords’ blog. Max writes some of his reflections on concerns about public engagment that elected officials have shared with him recently, and we encourage you to read them below or find theRead… Read more »
4 Strategies for Redesigning Your Approach to Civic Engagement
A few days ago, we highlighted the redesign of nyc.gov as a great case study in the use of good design to better accomplish agency goals. Of course, reading a case study and adopting a new approach are two different things. That’s why we decided to dig deeper into the topic. Kate Watts is ManagingRead… Read more »
Innovation Australian-Style
Innovation seems to be a big deal in governments around the world. But the Australian Public Service developed a formal action plan for innovation in 2011 and is rolling out a series of initiatives that are building the use of innovation into the government’s institutional framework. The current edition of The Public Manager describes theRead… Read more »
It’s a mobile world – and there better be an app for that – Plus the 7 Gov Stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Growing up in the 90s, School House Rock taught me how a bill becomes a law and how the US is a melting pot of cultures. But there is no School House Rock video tell me what civic technology is. And I need one. We get the inside scoop on thisRead… Read more »
Review of Rosa Zubizarreta’s New Book, “From Conflict to Creative Collaboration”
We are happy to share the post below from NCDD organizational member Tom Atlee of the Co-Intelligence Institute, which came via our great Submit-to-Blog Form. Do you have news you want to share with the NCDD network? Just click here to submit your news post for the NCDD Blog! I just finished reading NCDD memberRead… Read more »