I recently wrote a piece on the use of design methods in public services. Here it is ...
Data from OECD countries shows a roughly inverse correlation between spending on health and mortality and a roughly inverse correlation between growth in spending on health and improvements in mortality (the correlations hold even if the US is excluded).
Industrial policy is and always has been at heart about increasing the quantity and quality of investment in products and services for the future.
Over the last few years I've often asked friends why it is that the users of Facebook and Google don't band together to demand a share of the capital value of the companies.
The Innovation in Giving Fund is backing a series of projects using technological platforms to make it easier to give time and money. Quite a few are supporting new kinds of exchange, including time banks and complementary currencies.
Are we doomed to live in a world we can't understand? Before the modern era most people took it for granted that they were surrounded by the mysterious and capricious forces of fate and destiny. Then the enlightenment promised that we could understand our world, and for a time even things like electric lights and telephones were roughly within the cognitive grasp of the majority.
We've been working over the last few months on a new programme to support effective uses of digital technology in schools. It's partly an offshoot of the Next Gen. work on games and IT, but also a response to the evidence that many new opportunities are opening up thanks to the ubiquity of technologies like smart phones.
I appeared recently in front of the Public Administration Select Committee, chaired by Bernard Jenkin. PASC has long been one of the most thoughtful parliamentary committees and is now continuing its inquiry into strategy, and asking some good, probing questions about government's ability to handle the long-term.
A few weeks ago I was in India for the Global Innovation Forum. India has huge ambitions in innovation, stretching from launching satellites to village-level sanitation projects.
In mid-November NESTA again helped host Silicon Valley Comes to the UK, with a flood of activities from appathons for students to design new apps for public services, to high profile events with Valley luminaries such as Reid Hoffman.
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