The Collaborative State Collection
This collection will outline the lessons to be learned from inter-organisational collaboration in practice, through case studies looking at successful collaboration in action, and conceptual and systems analysis.
"collaboration"
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- Collaboration nation What's going on with public services? On the one hand they're supposed to join up and become more holistic, on the other they seem to be becoming ever more fragmented and harder to govern. Schools, for instance, are getting wide ranging independence from local government, but they're still supposed to help solve social problems that involve working with children's trusts and the police.Can we get the benefits of specialisation and integration? Of course we can - and a lot of public servants... from : simonparker 8th June 2006
- Public sector catches wikimania Guardian piece on public sector wikis from : paulmiller 19th July 2006
- Open Source disaster recovery Case studies of networked collaboration. from : niamhgallagher 25th July 2006
- Entrepreneurs of Collaboration Historic examples of successful cooperative economies that emerged during the Great Depression era in the US. from : niamhgallagher 25th July 2006
- Open source disaster recovery Open source disaster recovery from : paulmiller 25th July 2006
- Many eyes make bugs shallow Ever wanted to help write a Demos report? Me and Niamh are editing a collection called The Collaborative State, which is full of references to how blogs and wikis are going to transform the way the public sector works. So we thought we'd see if they can also transform the way we work. Click here to be transported to our new project wiki, where we'll publish some of the essays and case studies over the next few months.Basically, you can do whatever you want with them, but we hope you'll want to... from : simonparker 26th October 2006
- People, collaboration and public choice Anyone else watch Adam Curtis's film The Trap on the BBC the other night? I really enjoyed the way that it nailed public choice theory - essentially the assumption that we tend to compete rather than collaborative, to be selfish rather than altruistic. One result is the kind of inspection, incentive and market based reforms we've seen in public services over the past decade. And while it's produced results, that approach very clearly has not delivered the kind of transformation the public... from : simonparker 14th March 2007