nobel 17 articles

113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Draft Whitepaper on Obama and Transparency

last updated over 3 years ago, 2 Comments

This is an early version of a whitepaper I am working on about the Obama administration's open government initiatives. I realise that we are all waiting with bated breadth for the transparency directive that is due in the next couple of weeks, but I would be interested in feedback on the paper in the meantime. I do think this year Nobel Peace Prize winner :-) has done a good job in moving the debate forward in this area, but I think there is still plenty to think about and a lot more that nee...

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113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Public Services Summit

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Here is a short video about the annual Public Services Summit that Cisco hosts with the City of Stockholm on Dec 9 and Dec 10 in Stockholm and Oslo during the Nobel Festivities.

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113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Public Service Summit Presentations/Videos

last updated over 4 years ago, 0 Comments

Just is just to let people know that we have now posted videos of all the plenary speaker presentations at the Public Services Summit in December. Hopefully many of those who attended will be interested in viewing their favourite and those who did not attend might also be interested in having a look. I wouldn't want to offend anyone by saying which my personal favourite was, but the highest ranked according to attendee feedback were: Carlotta Perez on the role of state and markets in shaping...

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113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Lessig on Government 2.0

last updated over 4 years ago, 1 Comment

Here is an interesting presentation from Lawrence Lessig on Government 2.0. It is the presentation he gave at the Cisco Public Services Summit in Stockholm in December.

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113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Reflections on a Nobel Journey

last updated over 4 years ago, 1 Comment

Usually we see learning as moving from ignorance and uncertainty to knowledge and certainty, but sometimes the movement seems more in the opposite direction. One of the biggest gains for me from the recent Public Services Summit that Cisco hosted in Stockholm and Oslo was to raise questions and re-open issues. I have no doubt that we are at the start of a great period of change, but the difficult part is sorting out hype and dreams from the trends that will bring real change. Just when I thou...

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113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Web 2.0 and the Public Sector

last updated about 1 year ago, 1 Comment

This is the version of the Government 2.0 paper that we used at the Public Services Summit in December. Its a slimmed down and improved version of the original draft. We plan to do a final version early in 2009. At the event the strongest push back was on transparency where there was a strong sense that the need for confidential advice put major limits on what could be achieved - I am not sure I buy that, but lets leave that to another day! Another interesting bit of feedback was the suggesti...

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113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Public Services Summit kicks off

last updated over 4 years ago, 2 Comments

As you may have picked up, Cisco's IBSG team is very much involved in the Public Services Summit that Cisco co-hosts with the City of Stockholm each year. The event kicks off this evening and we are hoping to give it a real Web 2.0 feel by encouraging delegates to blog, twitter and flickr with the results of this activity captured on http://www.cisco08.com/. It will be interesting to see how delegates respond to this - hopefully the site will be pretty lively during the 3 or 4 days of the eve...

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Russ_medium Russell Craig

Creating a Sustainable Public Sector: the Role of ICTs

last updated over 4 years ago, 2 Comments

For some time now I have felt that government efforts to address sustainability challenges have suffered a number of problems. Specifically, I think that: they are too narrowly focused on environmental sustainability; they are too externally focused; and they fail to make linkges to e-government which has much to offer in the area of public sector sustainability. Currently, during 2009 we are planning to develop some "thought leadership" around the question of how ICTs the can play a ...

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Martin_medium msweeks

Public Sector Futures: Workforce Propositions

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These are the four propositions we will be voting on, and discussing, at the Nobel Public Services Summit in Stockholm next week. Feel free to chip in and 'vote' or add your ideas and responses... 1 The public sector needs a whole new work model – how public servants work, where they work and how they stay connected to their work – to retain and attract top talent and to meet the new demands it is facing. 2 A new Workforce and Workspace Sustainability model, reflecting the dem...

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Martin_medium msweeks

Public Sector Futures: Four Propositions

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These are the four propositions that we will be voting on, and discussing, at the Nobel Public Services Summit next week.  You don't need to be there to 'vote' or to comment - feel free to add yur thoughts and responses... 1 The worst case scenario for the public service in the next 20 years is a slow and steady decline in the face of too many complex problems. 2 Public sector renewal will call on new values needed for of an effective public service – orchestration, risk-taki...

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Public Sector Futures: Workforce and Workplace Sustainability

last updated over 3 years ago, 0 Comments

This is the final post in the "Nobel" series of posts with some initial ideas around the future of the public sector.  This post looks specifically at issues of workforce and workspace, linked closely to the rising imperative for sustainability across the public sector...   The assumption that the public sector has to embrace changes to its structure and operating model carries considerable consequences for recruiting and retaining a requisite workforce, and creating more effectiv...

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Public Sector Futures in The Connected Republic VI

last updated over 4 years ago, 4 Comments

If you had to describe two or three scenarios that describe your sense of what might happen to the public sector over the next 20 years, what would you write?  Here are three that occur to me: ·         Reformed and relevant – the rise of the public purpose sector ·         Slow, but steady decline ·         Virtual disappearance I&rsqu...

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Public Sector Futures in The Connected Republic V

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What are the big factors driving change in the public sector?  Here are a few obvious ones…feel free to throw in your suggestions and explain why you think they are having such a significant impact on the way the public sector works and evolves. Growing complexity of policy challenges and ‘wicked’ problems to be fixed (think climate change, financial meltdown, chronic disease management, pandemics, looking after older people, lifting literacy, sustainable cities&hel...

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Public Sector Futures in The Connected Republic IV

last updated over 4 years ago, 1 Comment

Some more in the series of posts on public sector 'futures' in the lead up to the Global Public Services Summit in Stockholm next month...this post focuses on values and attributes that we might expect to see in the new public sector... Another way of thinking about the future of the public sector is to reflect on the kinds of values and instincts that we expect to see manifest in the way the public sector works and in the way public servants behave. Here are some of the traditional values ...

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Public Sector Futures in The Connected Republic III

last updated about 1 year ago, 4 Comments

Third part in a series leading up to the Public Services Summit in Stockholm in December If we’re going to have a discussion about the future of the public sector, we need to have a discussion about its role and function.  What exactly is it we expect the public sector to do as it evolves into the 21st century?  What are the challenges to which we want the public sector to be able to respond?  To be blunt, what exactly is the point of the public sector? Traditionally, t...

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Public Sector Futures in The Connected Republic II

last updated over 4 years ago, 0 Comments

Part 2 of a series in the lead up to this year's Public Services Summit @ Nobel in Stockholm... Let’s start by putting the current discussion into some sort of context.  See what you think of these initial ideas – and feel free to challenge them or, better still, add a perspective of your own. According to one view, the public sector is in crisis, reeling from the impact of wrenching changes in the political, social, economic and technology context in which it operates and ...

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Public Sector Futures in The Connected Republic I

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At this year’s Public Services Summit @ Nobel in Stockholm in December, we will be running a specialist session that looks at the future of the public sector.  Part of the discussion will be a ‘futures’ session in which participants will get the chance to explore some of the big questions confronting the public sector into an uncertain future.  What is the purpose and role of the public sector in a more connected world?  How does the public sector’s ro...

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