GEOFF MULGAN | «Digital: growing the best , not the worst»

 

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«Shared services in the higher education sector / Together as one»

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«‘Transforming Public Services’, the report of the taskforce on the public sector, identifies shared services as a key element of public sector reform, offering potential benefits in relation to efficiency and economies of scale».

«GOVERNMENT PRODUCTIVITY»

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«CORE SKILLS FOR PUBLIC SECTOR INNOVATION»

 

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«To meet today’s public policy challenges – continued fiscal pressures, rising public expectations, more complex public policy issues – there is a crucial need to increase the level of innovation in the public sector. There is a fundamental need to increase the level of innovation within the public sector of OECD countries and EU states if they are to meet the challenges of the 21st century, a need which has only been increased by the fiscal pressures placed on many states by the 2008-9 crisis. (...)». Continue a ler no BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT.





«THE FUTURE OF SKILLS /Employment in 2030»



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Recent debates about the future of jobs have mainly focused on whether or not they are at risk of automation. Studies have generally minimized the potential effects of automation on job creation, and have tended to ignore other relevant trends, including globalisation, population aging, urbanisation, and the rise of the green economy.

In this study we used a novel and comprehensive mixed method approach to map out how employment is likely to change and the implications for skills. We show both what we can expect and where we should be uncertain; highlighting likely dynamics in different parts of the labour market — from sectors like food and health to manufacturing.

The study challenges the false alarmism that contributes to a culture of risk aversion and holds back technology adoption, innovation, and growth; this matters particularly to countries like the US and the UK, which already face structural productivity problems.

By identifying the bundles of skills, abilities, and knowledge that are most likely to be important in the future,
as well as the skills investments that will have the greatest impact on occupational demand, we provide information that educators, businesses, and governments can use for strategic and policy-making purposes to better prepare us for the future. (...)». Leia na integra.

 

«THE PUBLIC SERVICE AS A "PERFORMING ORGANISATION"»

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«Solved! Better pupil discussion in the classroom»

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It is now increasingly common practice for teachers to record themselves teaching as a way of reflecting upon their practice, but what about recording the pupils themselves? Our recent report showed how important it is that students do more collaborative problemsolving at school to get them ready for work. Yet despite strong evidence for its impact, it is rarely taught in schools. At Nesta we want to support collaborative problem-solving (CPS) practice in the classroom. Over the next year we’ll be supporting four pioneering innovators in the field to create new tools and test them with students. In 2016 we embarked on the first of these four experiments, a small-scale exploratory pilot with Harris Academy, Battersea.  Our approach was simple and inexpensive, using dictaphones to produce transcripts in order to examine their effectiveness as a tool for developing pupils’ problem-solving discussions. We worked both UK Transcription and AI Media who were able to turn around recordings in just a few days and The University of Melbourne for help with coding them. (...)».

«Governing With Collective Intelligence»

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Foreword

 “After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, ‘I want to see the manager’.

” William S. Burroughs was right. Few would look at the world today and give a thumbs up for the world’s population acting intelligently as a collective. International development in its drive to advance freedom, rights and welfare is faced with some wicked challenges: countries are for the most part getting richer, but significant numbers of people living within their borders are struggling in poverty. And the route taken by the early industrialised countries to create wealth will likely no longer be viable given the planet’s finite ability to cope with the side effects of carbon-driven growth. Preventable diseases still kill more than they should and new ones continue to emerge. While this is not an exhaustive list, there is still no one manager to complain to - billions of small decisions cumulate to form our collective sustainable development challenge today. This paper responds to a broader intellectual effort to flip the coin and make the very decentralised nature of economic, social and political actions into an asset. Collective Intelligence is a theory (and a hope) that diffuse technology, smarter machines, hidden human talents and renewed participatory governance create an opportunity to solve public problems. Nesta has taken this body of theory and practice and arranged it into a pragmatic framework that demonstrates the aims and emerging methods for Collective Intelligence.  Continue a ler.

ESTUDO | «On the Way to welfare 4.0?»

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«INTRODUCTION

Increasing digitalisation is penetrating all areas of the economy, society and politics. This is triggering changes in many areas, which will naturally also affect welfare states. Digitalisation is changing not only industrial production, but also how participation in politics and society is organised; how states and governments provide social services; how participation in the labour market works; how health care services are delivered; and so on. Whereas some studies focus on the risks of digitalisation for the labour market and predict an “end of work” (cf. Frey/Osborne 2013; BMAS 2015), other authors highlight the opportunities that digitalisation offers for social innovation (Buhr 2015; 2016). Such opportunities can be harnessed by means of targeted coordination and change-management if Industry 4.0 also becomes Welfare 4.0. There is currently no in-depth research available into the consequences of digitalisation in and for contemporary welfare states and their adjustment towards Welfare 4.0. However, a number of fundamental questions need to be answered. What effects might digitalisation have on health-care systems? How is labour market policy changing? What role does innovation policy play? How far have developments in individual welfare states progressed? What further developments can we expect? And how will the key players in the relevant policy areas react to these? 

The questions raised are examined in this study conducted by a group of political scientists from the Eberhard Karls  University Tübingen on behalf of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Under the title On the Way to Welfare 4.0?, both the status of digitalisation and its effects on the fields of labour market, health-care and innovation policy are examined. The analysis focuses on a comparison of seven welfare states: Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In addition to this comparative study, individual country reports are available that look more closely at the status of wel- fare state digitalisation (see Buhr/Frankenberger 2016; Buhr/ Frankenberger/Fregin/Trämer 2016; Buhr/Frankenberger/ Ludewig 2016; Christ/Frankenberger 2016; Fregin/Frankenberger 2016; Schmid/Frankenberger 2016; Trämer/Frankenberger 2016). Together, the studies provide answers to the overarching question of how digitalisation can also result  in modernisation of the welfare state, and what needs to be done to ensure that technical innovation can also lead to  social progress».