2. Why Open Policy Making & why now
Civil Service Reform Plan – dual diagnostic on policy advice:
• Drawn from too narrow a range of inputs
• Not designed with implementation in mind
Pace of change
• Digital and data revolution
• Networked public and new forms of participation
• Emerging policy techniques
The Civil Service does not have monopoly on policy making
Open policy will become the default
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3. What is Open Policy Making?
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Open Policy
Making
1. Broadening the
range of people we
engage
2. Using the latest
analytical techniques
and knowledge
3. Taking an Agile, more
iterative approach to
implementation
Civil Service Reform – new policy models
• User-led design
• Behavioural
economics
• Systems thinking
• Data science
• Wellbeing analysis
• Evidence from What
Works centres
• Social media
engagement
• Crowd sourcing
• Collaborative policy
processes
• Prototyping and
iterating
• Randomised control
trials
• Scenario modelling
The open policy maker is:
Curious: challenging assumptions,
willing to experiment
Networked and collaborative:
humble about the role of the civil
servant in the process
Digitally engaged
4. Open Policy has to be done within
existing constraints
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Policy context
Sensitive Routine
Ambitionforcollaboration
LowHigh
Informed policy making
Developing policy with users at
the heart
Collaborative policy making
Open Policy Making mindset
5. Crowd sourcing: DfID Amplify Social media engagement: DEFRA and
#LoveOurForests policy tweet-a-thon
Online collaboration and iteration: MOJ
young people and Victim ‘s Code
Open data and new service development:
FCO hackday
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1. Using digital to engage differently
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6. Rigorous analysis: DEFRA EU Fisheries
Policy
Use of behavioural insights: HMRC debt
management
New trends, design thinking: UK Policy Lab
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2. Keeping up with new analytical tools
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3. Moving from policy ‘waterfall’
to Agile
e.g. Decc 2050
calculator
8. The Open Policy Making team networks
reformers across Whitehall
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Embedding a
credible change
programme –
making OPM the
default
Celebrating best
practice and
enabling sharing of
innovative
approaches
Testing and
incubating
innovative
approaches
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Contestable Policy
Fund: £500k
Ministerial match
fund to source
external advice
9. The Government Innovation Group
The Open Policy Making team is part of the Cabinet Office Government
Innovation Group, which looks to the space just outside government to:
• Activate those outside the state – citizens, businesses, charities, social
enterprises - on social issues where there is common cause with
government
• Bring cutting edge techniques into government – Departments can
find out more via the Open Policy Making team
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Open Data
Data
Science
Wellbeing
Analysis
Policy Lab
Social
finance
Social
Impact
Bonds
Social
Action &
volunteering
[Behavioural
Insights]
Data
sharing
policy
Voluntary
Sector
Support
Team
Horizon
scanning
Editor's Notes
Embedding a credible change programme across departments – making open policy the default
Working with 7 exemplar departments
Connecting policy and digital leaders through 6 monthly events to drive change
Enabling policy makers to connect through several digital platforms e.g. GOV.UK and Linked In
Celebrating best practice and enabling sharing of innovative approaches across the policy community
Publishing case studies and sign posting to new innovative tools and platforms on GOV.UK
Networking and broadening the debate with thought leaders in the UK and abroad
Publishing Civil Service Quarterly
Testing and incubating new innovative approaches and sharing these with the policy community
Establishing UK Policy Lab and testing concept across 12 months
Developing a digital policy makers toolkit
Running a Contestable Policy Fund