World Government Summit

Application Deadline: August 31st 2017

After a successful collaboration over the last year, OPSI and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation (MBRCGI) are happy to announce the continued collaboration and partnership for another round of work to help shape the agenda for the 2018 World Government Summit (11-13 February 2018), including case studies on leading-edge innovations, and interactive displays at the Summit’s Edge of Government experience.

To kick things off, OECD are launching a new Call for Innovations to crowdsource examples of innovation. In addition to fuelling our research, the innovations will be considered for the UAE’s Edge of Government Innovation Award. Finalists will be invited to present their innovations in Paris at the OPSI conference Innovation in Government: The New Normal (20-21 November 2017). Winner(s) will be recognized at the Summit and will be invited to showcase their work in front of a global audience at the World Government Summit.

The Summit is the largest annual gathering in the world focused on shaping the future of governments through innovation, with past speakers including world leaders (e.g. Barack Obama) and leaders of industry (e.g. Elon Musk). For 2017, the event brought together over 4,000 government officials, thinkers, policy makers, and industry experts from over 130 countries to discuss ways to harness innovation and technology to solve challenges facing humanity.

Requirements:

OECD are interested in submissions for innovations of all kinds, but we are also particularly interested in exploring innovative, “edge” approaches to some specific themes:

Identity: in all its facets – from new ways to preserve cultural identity to creating new national or transnational narratives (e.g., around the issue of integration of migrants or transborder cooperation), from technical ID systems and rethinking personal data to creating new types of embassies.
Time: from innovative approaches to forecasting to generating efficiencies and accelerating implementation, and also innovative approaches to revisiting the past or celebrating slowing things down when beneficial for citizens.
Interdependency and interconnectedness: from interventions that take a system-wide approach to complex social problems (e.g. regulation of the sharing economy) to bringing down traditional government silos (e.g. local/federal), from policies and government programs that take into account intragenerational issues to rethinking government services to maximise social capital.

Benefits:

Award semi-finalists will be sponsored to present their innovative work in Paris at the OPSI conference Innovation in Government: The New Normal (20-21 November 2017). Finalists will be recognized at the Summit and will be sponsored to accept the award and present their work in front its global audience in Dubai.
In particular, the selected winner(s) for the award will enjoy the following privileges:

Opportunity to be declared the winner of the Edge of Government Innovation Award
All-expenses paid invitation to the World Government Summit
Public recognition during the World Government Summit and through other channels, including reports, websites, and traditional and digital media
Innovation transformed into experiential exhibit showcased at the World Government Summit’s dedicated Edge of Government experience (which can be re-used by the finalists for other platforms and venues)
Networking opportunities with high-profile attendees at the World Government Summit
Media interviews opportunities at the World Government Summit

Apply Now for the 2017 OECD OPSI Call for Innovators

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the 2017 OECD OPSI Call for Innovators

Application Deadline: August 28, 2016.

Civil servants around the world now have until 28 August to submit examples of public sector innovation to the OECD which will pick the makers of the best to attend its World Government Summit in Dubai.

Innovators are encouraged to submit innovative practices to the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation.

Today, the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation for the World Government Summit to conduct a review of the ways central governments are transforming their operations and improving the lives of their people.

The World Government Summit is the largest annual gathering in the world focused on shaping the future of governments through innovative practices. This February, U.S. President Barack Obama and UAE Vice President and Prime Minister His Highness Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum kicked off the 2016 Summit, with a keynote speech given by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. The event brought together thousands of government officials, thinkers, policy makers, and industry experts from over 100 countries to discuss ways to harness innovation and technology to solve challenges facing humanity.

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To help drive the agenda for the 2017 World Government Summit to be held February 12-14, 2017; OPSI and the World Government Summit are collecting examples of government innovations that are at the “edge” of current practice: initiatives that have received little or no global coverage to date but point to new ways of designing and implementing policies or running the machinery of government. Such innovations may include:

leveraging creative digital tools to better engage and co-create policies and services with residents;
innovative/alternative financing and procurement tools that allow governments to tap into new sources of funding and deliver better results;
implementing approaches which empower and engage the workforce, promote learning and ultimately foster innovation-oriented cultures and capabilities in public sector organisations;
new mechanisms to help governments effectively tackle transnational issues (from international transportation networks, to transnational banking for migration remittances, to climate change and environmental hazards);
experimental approaches to policymaking that allow for better risk management and learning by doing;
applying design thinking and ethnographic approaches to develop solutions that produce systemic change;
using behavioural approaches for innovative problem solving or forging new partnerships to break down barriers within and across government, civil society, and industry; and
harnessing data—such as data from citizen science, satellites, and the internet of things—and combining it with citizens’ context-rich insights to deliver new perspectives on policy issues, promote anticipatory governance approaches, and enable real-time sensemaking; and opening data to fuel innovation inside and outside government.

The missions of the OECD and World Government Summit are to promote better policies for better lives and shape the future of government worldwide. To further these missions, we invite you to send us examples of public innovation that have made significant improvements to people’s lives.

Submit Your Innovation Now for the OECD Call for Innovators

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the OECD Call for Innovators

2017 OECD OPSI Call for Innovators (Fully Funded to attend Conferences in Paris & Dubai)

OECD Call for Innovators (Fully Funded to attend the 2017 World Government Summit in Dubai)