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Challenge-led Innovation Workbook, Organising for Systems Innovation at Scale from Griffith University's Centre for Systems Innovation https://is.gd/gWFjt4

The following is an excerpt from the article https://is.gd/EwE4Nj This article highlights the significant shift toward human-centered policy-making, emphasizing emotion, empathy, and ethnography to understand citizens' perspectives more deeply. It emphasizes a shift towards greater citizen empowerment, bridging the gap between policy-makers and the communities they serve.

Getting participation right (and wrong) from Oli Whittington This blog post introduces our view on getting participation in design and decision-making right and shares some open learning of mistakes we’ve made. This is learning that draws on decades of work from urban activism to democratic innovation, and will continue to evolve as our practice does, so feel free to reach out to Oli to ask questions or share your feedback.

What’s next for democratic innovation? Democratic innovation and digital participation: reimagining institutions for the 21st century Societies face many pressing issues and trust in our political and democratic systems is at an all-time low. Advances in participation methods and digital technology are presenting a new mode of governance. Initiatives such as citizens’ assemblies and participatory budgeting are bringing people together to make critical decisions and reshaping the relationship between government and society. https://lnkd.in/e5aiXVgw

Have you read the book "Skin in the Game" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb? Actors – per Taleb – must bear a cost when they fail the public. A fund manager that gets a percentage on wins, but no penalty for losing, is incentivized to gamble with his clients' funds. Bearing no downside for one's actions means that one has no "skin in the game", which is the source of many evils. This idea also had huge relevance for politics and the public sector in general.

Here we want to spotlight one of the great members of the Si Governance hub Mariana Mirabile and her team from the OECD Environment running a workshop on Dublin City Council’s Climate Action Plan – Climate Neutral Dublin 2030 Working over 30 representatives from the Dublin City Council, national government, academia, civil society, and youth organizations, to apply systems thinking to explore key strategies to: Transform Dublin’s public spaces to achieve net zero emissions while improving well-being and implementing a mission-oriented, systems-based approach to drive this transformation. You can learn more about this work by watching this recent presentation Mariana did hosted by our hub: https://lnkd.in/gu3m-p47 Mariell Juhlin Isaac Reilly Maarten Lens-FitzGerald

Just what we need in the public sector "systems leadership". Graphic from this paper on "Developing a Systems Thinking Lens for Collective Leadership" https://lnkd.in/gBPvf4B8 "The purpose of this paper is to share some concepts informed by systems thinking to support policy-makers to bring a systems- informed lens to their work. It puts the practitioner-leader at the centre of their own practice and encourages them to reflect critically on their positionality, as well as the lens they use to understand and intervene in complex issues." Maarten Lens-FitzGerald Isaac Reilly

Here's an interesting resource from Vinnova on how they have gone about designing and developing a "missions" approach to systems innovation in Sweden: https://lnkd.in/gX4zr4pj

Governing in Complexity - Principles Paper. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/egNcTyhn

What is the role of "games" in helping us reimagine public services and find new ways to do policy? How do games help us visualize and interact with systems? This article discusses "Game design as a policy-making method" "Systems can be described with images, text and sound. But most systems are not static sets of interrelated parts. They are constantly moving. This is where games are uniquely powerful at setting systems in motion. A game is a playable model of a system (real or imaginary). Its rules describe the system’s elements and their relationships. Its win and lose conditions set the purpose of the system. But a game only really exists when it’s played. Players bring a game to life, and (in most games) they have agency to make choices that will have meaningful consequences on the system." Read the article here: https://is.gd/WivYTa