How Open Innovation Can Transform the Government Technology Playing Field
The FCW website reported that the past decade has seen a rapid shift to open government and open data as key principles for agencies, starting with the advent of the Open Government policies of the Obama Administration in 2009. These policies have been supported through the recent passage of legislation, including the OPEN Government Data Act of 2018.
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Open Innovation: High Hopes and Many Challenges
The ProQuest website posted the abstract and beginning of an article which noted that during recent years different variants of IT-enabled public sector open innovation have been proposed as ways of overcoming the difficulties that public sector organizations face in terms of – on one side –
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Investigating Open Government for Social Innovation
The R&D Management journal posted an article which noted that in recent years, public sector organizations have increasingly focused on citizen contribution by adopting instruments known from open innovation. A more open approach to innovation has become dominant in innovation management during
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Open Innovation: Research, Practices, and Policies
The California Management Review website posted an article which noted that open innovation is now a widely used concept in academia, business, and policy making. This article describes the state of open innovation at the intersection of research, practice, and policy. It discusses some key trends (e.g.,
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Using Open Data to Boost Public Sector Innovation
The Diginomica website noted that the clamor for digital transformation means executives in both the public and private sectors are encouraged to use creative methods, such as hackathons and cross-organization partnerships, to foster innovation. The city of Camden recently launched an open data challenge
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Number of Countries Embracing Open Government Surges
The FedScoop website reported that “The UN clearly sees open data and open innovation as central drivers for achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and is pushing hard for member states to pro-actively collaborate with citizens in the design and delivery of more personalized and
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Open Innovation in Africa
The ODI website reported that governments across Africa are increasingly recognizing the benefits that embracing open data and open innovation can bring. Many African countries have open data initiatives while the latest Open Data Barometer research shows improvements in government transparency and
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Indian President Mukherjee Awarded for Open Innovation
The Economic Times of India reported that Indian President Pranab Mukherjee stressed the need to have increased ‘open’ innovation in the government to serve citizens better. He made his remarks as he was honored with the Garwood Award for ‘Outstanding Global Leader in Open Innovation’
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NASA Opens Its Data
The Arc website reported that NASA is giving away its data to developers looking to integrate the endless volume of space into their apps. The NASA Data Portal is a project from the agency’s open innovation team to set NASA’s data free. The Data Portal contains a library application programming interfaces
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Government Innovation Offices and OI
The TechRepublic website cited an IBM research report which noted that some ideologues doubt that government can be innovative at all, despite centuries of evidence to the contrary. We’re still learning how open innovation should work in the public sector in this century, but it’s possible
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