Every year, the WA Public Sector Innovation Action Plan Working Group hold an event, and the topic this year is ‘Collaborative Partnerships in Action.’ It is a full day workshop that showcases current public sector innovation projects, and encourages everyone who attends to gain ideas and insights from one another regarding the public sector, local government, not for profit and private sectors.

Public Sector Innovation Workshop

This annual event is one of five key initiatives being progressed by the WA Public Sector Innovation Action Plan Working Group.

The focus this year will be on the external relationships forged by and with the WA Public Sector to achieve common goals. This year’s topic is “Collaborative Partnerships in Action” and focuses on creating an enabling environment to achieve citizen centric outcomes.

This theme is consistent with the Government’s Putting the Public First and Reducing the Red Tape Taskforce Reports which identify a need for collaborative partnerships to achieve citizen centric outcomes.

This full day workshop will showcase current public sector innovation projects and encourage participants to gain ideas, insights and know-how on creating innovative citizen centric collaborations between the public sector, local government, the not-for-profit and the private sectors. Ideas around how and where these important sectors can collaborate will be further pursued as part of a workshop.

Topics Include

• The role of government in creating an innovation environment and its importance.
• The opportunities of the National Broadband Network roll out in WA.
• Crowd sourcing as a tool to transform government data to relevant services for people.
• Social innovation and how its transforming the lives of families in South Australia.
• How we can co-create and co-design solutions in WA.
• Tools to make us and our organisations more innovative.

Hear From

Hon. David Bartlett 
Director
Explore Consulting Pty Ltd

Brodie McCulloch
Managing Director
Social innovation in Western Australia (SiiWA)

Dr Terry Cutler

David Shi
Project Manager / Research Analyst Transport Management Centre
NSW Department of Transport
Kaggle Competition for the Predictive Travel Time for the M4 Motorway: Positive Outcomes and Lessons Learnt

Carolyn Curtis
Family by Family – Designed with and delivered by families

Alex Roberts
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
Intertwined Innovation: How innovation both enables and requires new ways of working together

Who Should Attend?

Anyone in the public, private or not-for-profit sectors, as well as Higher Education Institutions, interested in identifying and exploring common collaborative opportunities with public agencies and authorities in WA.

Why?

• Hear about current examples and gain an understanding of what collaborative innovation can look like.
• Share your ideas for the role and direction of innovation and collaboration within and with the WA public sector.
• Use the opportunity to share the key innovation priorities relevant to your organisation and your ideas for collaborative innovation.
• Identify possible joint projects and relevant contributors and partners.

Results of the workshop will be documented and provided in a report to all director generals and chief executive officers for consideration in relation to their own department’s business.  The report will also be made publicly available online.  This information will also be used to feed into the review of the Action Plan.

Date & Time - 24 November 2011 - 8:30am – 4:00pm

Venue - Burswood on Swan – 1 Camfield Drive Burswood

Cost - $95.00

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A range courses are coming to Perth between May 16th and June 1st focused on measuring social impact and using the Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology to conduct social impact measurement. Read the full story

Tickets are limited for Perth Masterclass so book yours here (special rates for NFP’s and Social Entrepreneurs)

Government and the public sector are key players in shaping and providing social services and decision making on behalf of citizens. But how can we make a public sector that is innovative and responsive to the needs of its citizens?

Christian Bason, leading international thinker on public sector innovation and Director of MindLab, a cross-ministerial innovation unit in Denmark, argues that the mode of creating new solutions in government should shift from an internally-driven, closed, linear and often random process, to a more open, iterative and systematic approach.

Christian will be presenting a range of masterclasses and free public forums across Australia to lead a dialogue on the possibilities for co-creating an innovative public sector system.

Masterclass: How can we build a public sector innovation system?

Whether you’re inside or outside of the public sector, if you’re interested in how to develop innovative, collaborative public sector practice then this masterclass is for you.

Characterised by four dimensions (the four C’s): Consciousness, Capacity, Co-creation and Courage; Christian will lead this masterclass  to explore, in a case-based and highly interactive format, what these four elements imply in practice for how masterclass participants run their organisations and innovation projects:

1. What is innovation in the public sector, and how do we create a common language about it?
2. What does it mean to build the capacity for future innovation, across political context, strategy, organisation, digitisation and culture?
3. How can we orchestrate the individual elements of a co-creation process, including rich citizen involvement and collaboration across the silos of government?
4. What are the four key leadership roles in driving innovation in government?

Masterclasses will be held in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra & Sydney. Register in your nearest city through the links below.

Perth Masterclass

Date – Monday, November 15, 2010

Time – 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Location – TBA

Tickets are limited for Perth Masterclass so book yours here (special rates for NFP’s and Social Entrepreneurs)

More information on Social Innovation Dialogues can be found here.

About Christian Bason:

Christian Bason is the Director of MindLab, a cross-ministerial innovation unit in Denmark. He was formerly responsible for the public organisation and management practice of Ramboll, an international consultancy. As an experienced presenter and facilitator, he has served as advisor to numerous public institutions around the world. He is also a university lecturer and is the author of four books on citizen involvement, leadership and innovation in the public sector. His latest book, “Leading public sector innovation: Co-creating for a better society” (Policy Press) is out in October 2010.