The Craft of Incentive Prize Design: Lessons from the Public Sector

In the last five years, incentive prizes have transformed from an exotic open innovation tool to a proven innovation strategy for the public, private and philanthropic sectors. This report offers practical lessons for public sector leaders and their counterparts in the philanthropic and private sectors to help understand what types of outcomes incentive prizes help to achieve, what design elements prize designers use to create these challenges and how to make smart design choices to achieve a particular outcome. It synthesizes insights from expert interviews and analysis of more than 400 prize

Good to Great: Taking the Governance Leap in India

This report by Dasra is thus a timely effort toward building greater awareness on a critical subject and suggesting action-oriented solutions to it. Governance in India is constantly put in to doubt, not only the government per se, but also citizens, businesses and media have an equal role to play in nation-building. The manner in which this report succinctly pulls together the various building blocks needed to establish a strong and effective governance framework for India is very informative and thought provoking.This report highlights the work of several such non-profit organizations that are positively contributing to strengthening governance in their respective focus areas. These span a diverse range of issues -- lack of accountability and capacities within the executive, poor citizen awareness and participation, lack of platforms for active public engagement, the need for an independent and inclusive media and several others

Knight News Challenge: Casting the Net Wide for Innovation

Reviews the evolution of the Knight News Challenge contest for experimental projects in digital delivery of news and information to local communities, profiles winning projects and explores the grants' impact, and considers issues of sustainability

Bringing Anglo-governmentality into public management scholarship : the case of evidence-based medicine in UK health care

The field of public administration and management exhibits a limited number of favored themes and theories, including influential New Public Management and Network Governance accounts of contemporary government. Can additional social science–based perspectives enrich its theoretical base, in particular, analyzing a long-term shift to indirect governance evident in the field? We suggest that a variant of Foucauldian analysis is helpful, namely “Anglo-governmentality.” Having reviewed the literatures, we apply this Anglo-governmentality perspective to two case studies of “post hierarchical” UK health care settings: first, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), responsible for producing evidence-based guidelines nationally, and the second, a local network tasked with enacting such guidelines into practice. Compared with the Network Governance narrative, the Anglo-governmentality perspective distinctively highlights (a) a power–knowledge nexus giving strong technical advice; (b) pervasive grey sciences, which produce such evidence-based guidelines; (c) the “subjectification” of local governing agents, herein analyzed using Foucauldian concepts of the “technology of the self” and “pastoral power”; and (d) the continuing indirect steering role of the advanced neoliberal health care State. We add to Anglo-governmentality literature by highlighting hybrid “grey sciences,” which include clinical elements and energetic self-directed clinical–managerial hybrids as local governing agents. These findings suggest that the State and segments of the medical profession form a loose ensemble and that professionals retain scope for colonizing these new arenas. We finally suggest that Anglo-governmentality theory warrants further exploration within knowledge-based public organizations

Unlocking Latino Civic Potential 2016 and Beyond

In August 2015, the Aspen Institute Latinos and Society Program and the Aspen Institute Citizenship and American Identity Program convened a diverse group of distinguished scholars, organizers, and other experts and leaders to discuss the challenges and causes of low Latino civic participation and to develop recommendations for unlocking Latino civic potential in the United States.This is a vital topic, as the U.S. Latino population is growing rapidly, is overwhelmingly young, and thus will see growing power and influence in American society and politics, if Latinos are able to more fully realize their civic potential. Increasing Latino civic and political participation rates today will pay dividends for generations to come; likewise, missing the opportunity to do so will have consequences to the health of our democracy for generations to come.This report identifies four priority areas and tactics for unleashing the civic potential of Latinos in the United States. Focusing on immigrant integration and naturalization, voter engagement, civic education, and leadership development; the report offers a comprehensive vision for how to engage the nation's fastest growing demographic, beyond election cycles, to participate more fully in our democracy

Information technology: gateway to direct democracy in China and the world

The world watches as China moves towards greater democracy. The question in everyone's minds, including Chinese themselves, is “what model will China arrive at, at the journey's end?” There are many lessons to be learnt from other countries, some positive (Tanzania) and some negative (Laos). The United States has no doubts about the “goodness” of its own model but their unthinking belief in the superiority of their model should not be accepted at face value. The Chinese government and people will understandably be considering various different models very carefully, so that they can choose the best possible model for their country, and their own context. In this paper we will consider why current Western models of constitution should be viewed with caution by China as it attempts to move towards an improved socialist democracy. The paper considers the electronic voting system used in the US presidential elections, and draws attention to the opportunities for vote rigging that this type of electronic voting facilitates. It also looks at models of democracy used in the ancient world, and compares these with modern systems. Finally, it presents a secure and anonymous mechanism for electronic voting on issues of concern to the population. We conclude by sounding a note of caution about the dangers of plebiscites being used as rubber stamps by dictators if there are inadequate controls over who puts issues to the vote

Viewpoints on inclusion in tourism – From accessible tourism to accessible hospitality

In this review article, inclusion in tourism is referred to in terms of accessible tourism, tourism for all and finally accessible hospitality. According to previous research, accessibility has many different dimensions: economic, cultural, social and communicational, for instance. New market segments will emerge, which makes it important to further examine the terms, concepts and implications of accessible tourism. Hospitality and accessibility have until now been seen as different discussions, but in this review article they are closely linked to each other. Hospitality refers not only to the industry we operate in, but an attitude towards others, may they be our friends, relatives, acquaintances or strangers. A particular attitude called accessible hospitality, would serve as a basis where all other aspects of accessibility are integrated. This article approaches accessible hospitality by discussing the different viewpoints on inclusion and present insights to possible customer groups that would benefit from more considerate service. The groups that are presented in the article are, senior travellers, ethnic groups and LGBTIQ tourists (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, Intersex, and Questioning)/rainbow tourists. The article contributes to discussions concerning social responsibility in tourism, and accessible tourism, in particular, by offering a new viewpoint of accessibility and hospitality as an inseparable whole.In this review article, inclusion in tourism is referred to in terms of accessible tourism, tourism for all and finally accessible hospitality. According to previous research, accessibility has many different dimensions: economic, cultural, social and communicational, for instance. New market segments will emerge, which makes it important to further examine the terms, concepts and implications of accessible tourism. Hospitality and accessibility have until now been seen as different discussions, but in this review article they are closely linked to each other. Hospitality refers not only to the industry we operate in, but an attitude towards others, may they be our friends, relatives, acquaintances or strangers. A particular attitude called accessible hospitality, would serve as a basis where all other aspects of accessibility are integrated. This article approaches accessible hospitality by discussing the different viewpoints on inclusion and present insights to possible customer groups that would benefit from more considerate service. The groups that are presented in the article are, senior travellers, ethnic groups and LGBTIQ tourists (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, Intersex, and Questioning)/rainbow tourists. The article contributes to discussions concerning social responsibility in tourism, and accessible tourism, in particular, by offering a new viewpoint of accessibility and hospitality as an inseparable whole

The Green Investment Report: The Ways and Means to Unlock Private Finance for Green Growth

This report is a first step by the Green Growth Action Alliance to deliver on the G20 Leaders' request. It aims to provide a common point of reference to guide policy-makers, financial institutions and investors as they seek to better understand, and address, the global gap in green investment. This report documents and synthesizes the best available green investment data, research and case studies from a number of leading organizations, including Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the Climate Policy Initiative, the International Energy Agency, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank Group and the World Resources Institute, and provides important messages for different groups of stakeholders. New analysis is also presented on clean-energy asset finance flows, the findings of which can be used to guide investment decisions and priorities in other sectors