Canadian government policy innovation labs: An experimental turn in policy work?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Evans ◽  
Siu Mee Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Canadian Government ◽  
Policy Work

scholarly journals Strategic Innovation, Knowledge Sharing and Policy Innovation Factors In E-Government in Developing Countries: The Case of Tanzania

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-123
Author(s):  
Lupilya Emmanuel Constantine ◽  
Park J Hun
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
National Level ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Strategic Innovation ◽  
Research Alliance ◽  
Innovation Knowledge

The existing gap from strategic innovation in e-government knowledge creation has affected the effort to timely develop e-government policy in Tanzania. This paper is an attempt to describe multiple innovations outside the Tanzania that involve developing country collaboration, institutional innovation and resources and their linkages to national e-government-think tank. The central argument of this paper is to find factors for enhancing the development of national e-government policy innovation outside Tanzania. We developed national e-government policy framework to orchestrate local innovation and forge ahead of the e-government policy innovation. To do so, we developed and administered a set of the questionnaire from government and private institutions, entrepreneurship and social network group. Data collections were conducted from July 15 to September 20, 2015. The exploratory factor analysis using SPSS version 22 was employed to analyze data for strategic innovation, knowledge sharing, and e-government policy innovation. Four critical factors were identified as the key driver to the success of national e-government policy innovation: Coordinate knowledge sharing on e-government policies in the nation and international institutions; empower and coordinate e-government-think tank forum locally and nationally; create a technoculture society at local and national level; and Support e-government research alliance & engagement respectively. In additional, three developing countries were used as a reference model to support these findings. Our conclusion shows how national e-government-think tank and research alliance can become a strategic innovation in e-government towards coordinating knowledge sharing within private and government institutions. This can represent as "valuable and intellectual assets" for government institutions' stability and change towards national e-government policy innovation process.

J. Maybin, Producing health policy: knowledge and knowing in government policy work

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-249
Author(s):  
James Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Work

The Canadian Experience

1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-79
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Canadian Government ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Canadian Experience ◽  
Multicultural Program ◽  
National Film Board

Multiculturalism is a part of Canadian government policy and as such has been incorporated into the program of the National Film Board of Canada. Extracted here Is a research report by Carolyn Dartnell, 1979 graduate of the Australian Film and Television School, on the multicultural program of the NFB. Also, Dan lannuzzi writes about Toronto's new multilingual TV service.

scholarly journals Understanding policy workers’ policy innovation capacity: An exploratory and qualitative mixed methods evaluation study of a policy hackathon program in Prince Edward Island, Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bobby Thomas Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Policy Theory ◽  
Policy Capacity ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
Policy Work

Executive Summary: Background: In 2018, the Government of PEI, Veterans Affairs Canada, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the Start-Up Zone brought together 49 individuals from the public and private sector to participate in a Policy Hackathon Program. A series of learning sessions were delivered while participants moved through a public policy case competition. This paper evaluates and studies this program and makes design recommendations for future policy hackathon programs. In the process, the paper draws attention to not only the relevance, performance and impact of the Program, but also larger discussions related to the unique attributes of the islandness of public policy, policy innovation, and austerity on an island. Methods: The evaluation study adopted a social-constructivist worldview, whereby the perceptions of participants and the interpretation of the researcher were used to understand the Program. A qualitative mixed methods design was employed which involved generating qualitative and quantitative data through a pre-program survey (N=48), post-program survey (N=38), interviews with a random sample of participants (N=6), and interviews with a purposive sample of key informants (N=2). Bason’s (2014) design for policy theory and the OECD’s (2017) core skills for public sector innovation framework were operationalized to understand the results in relation to theory and best practice. Quantitative and qualitative results were interpreted by the researcher to understand the Program and also to connect the results to public policy theory and constructs. Results: Relevance The Program responded to a need in PEI’s policy environment. There was clear indication that participants believed that PEI needs new micro-and meso-level policy tools to develop public policy. Participants indicated that having opportunities to learn about policy innovation was important to them. The Program’s emphasis on mentorship was relevant, given that participants believed that such multidisciplinary connections were important for policy development. Performance The Program performed well in terms of increasing participants’ individual policy capacity as well as that of the entire group, meeting participants’ expectations to receive valuable learning, and allowing participants to meaningfully connect with a broad range of individuals. The Program performed less optimally in the areas of providing participants with new policy tools, mentorship, and connecting with citizens. Impact Participants perceived the Program to have had a positive impact on their skill development in a wide range of areas and in increasing their comfort level with on-the-spot decision-making. Participants indicated that they would seek to integrate similar learning opportunities into their professional development plans in the future. Participants also reported that they believed the Program had a positive impact on the group’s policy capacity and capacity to undertake innovative policy work. Policy Innovation The policy workers involved in the Program (i.e., participants) have cognitively established the positive connection between mentorship and innovation. Participants reported an increase in their confidence to apply human-centered design concepts. In terms of Bason’s (2014) theory and the OECD’s (2017) framework, the Program exposed participants to important policy innovation concepts. Given that participants indicated they thought that individuals who participated in the Program were better prepared to conduct innovative policy work in the future, it is assumed that the Program had a positive impact, to some degree, on increasing the policy innovation capacity of policy workers. Conclusion The study concludes by reiterating that the value of a policy hackathon program is as much related to process as new policies. In other words, in order for policy hackathon programs to be successful, they do PEI Policy Hackathon Program not necessarily need to result in the development of a new policy. Rather, as shown in this study, there can be positive impacts to participants’ policy innovation capacity which can occur during the program. Policy hackathon programs therefore should not be judged entirely on the intervention’s outputs. The study also concludes with a discussion in relation to the islandness of public policy, policy innovation, policy hackathons, and evaluation heuristics. Finally, the paper offers some thoughts on findings which pointed to the existence of austerity and the need for greater citizen-focus in public policy.

Optimal versus Unregulated Industry Behavior in a Beverton–Holt Multicohort Fishery Model

1984 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Stollery
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Mesh Size ◽  
Catch Rate ◽  
Canadian Government ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Maximum Economic Yield ◽  
Fishery Model

Canadian government policy toward fisheries in recent years has shifted emphasis from maximizing the sustainable catch level toward maximizing economic yield taking account of fishing costs and revenues. I have provided a model for the determination of the optimal catch rate and mesh size for maximum economic yield in a Beverton–Holt model employing many age cohorts. The optimal effort and mesh size are compared with those predicted for an unregulated fishery. While the analysis is mainly limited to steady state, an attempt is also made to determine the optimal disequilibrium response to environmentally caused exogenous changes in recruitment.

scholarly journals Understanding policy workers’ policy innovation capacity: An exploratory and qualitative mixed methods evaluation study of a policy hackathon program in Prince Edward Island, Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bobby Thomas Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Policy Theory ◽  
Policy Capacity ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
Policy Work

Executive Summary: Background: In 2018, the Government of PEI, Veterans Affairs Canada, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the Start-Up Zone brought together 49 individuals from the public and private sector to participate in a Policy Hackathon Program. A series of learning sessions were delivered while participants moved through a public policy case competition. This paper evaluates and studies this program and makes design recommendations for future policy hackathon programs. In the process, the paper draws attention to not only the relevance, performance and impact of the Program, but also larger discussions related to the unique attributes of the islandness of public policy, policy innovation, and austerity on an island. Methods: The evaluation study adopted a social-constructivist worldview, whereby the perceptions of participants and the interpretation of the researcher were used to understand the Program. A qualitative mixed methods design was employed which involved generating qualitative and quantitative data through a pre-program survey (N=48), post-program survey (N=38), interviews with a random sample of participants (N=6), and interviews with a purposive sample of key informants (N=2). Bason’s (2014) design for policy theory and the OECD’s (2017) core skills for public sector innovation framework were operationalized to understand the results in relation to theory and best practice. Quantitative and qualitative results were interpreted by the researcher to understand the Program and also to connect the results to public policy theory and constructs. Results: Relevance The Program responded to a need in PEI’s policy environment. There was clear indication that participants believed that PEI needs new micro-and meso-level policy tools to develop public policy. Participants indicated that having opportunities to learn about policy innovation was important to them. The Program’s emphasis on mentorship was relevant, given that participants believed that such multidisciplinary connections were important for policy development. Performance The Program performed well in terms of increasing participants’ individual policy capacity as well as that of the entire group, meeting participants’ expectations to receive valuable learning, and allowing participants to meaningfully connect with a broad range of individuals. The Program performed less optimally in the areas of providing participants with new policy tools, mentorship, and connecting with citizens. Impact Participants perceived the Program to have had a positive impact on their skill development in a wide range of areas and in increasing their comfort level with on-the-spot decision-making. Participants indicated that they would seek to integrate similar learning opportunities into their professional development plans in the future. Participants also reported that they believed the Program had a positive impact on the group’s policy capacity and capacity to undertake innovative policy work. Policy Innovation The policy workers involved in the Program (i.e., participants) have cognitively established the positive connection between mentorship and innovation. Participants reported an increase in their confidence to apply human-centered design concepts. In terms of Bason’s (2014) theory and the OECD’s (2017) framework, the Program exposed participants to important policy innovation concepts. Given that participants indicated they thought that individuals who participated in the Program were better prepared to conduct innovative policy work in the future, it is assumed that the Program had a positive impact, to some degree, on increasing the policy innovation capacity of policy workers. Conclusion The study concludes by reiterating that the value of a policy hackathon program is as much related to process as new policies. In other words, in order for policy hackathon programs to be successful, they do PEI Policy Hackathon Program not necessarily need to result in the development of a new policy. Rather, as shown in this study, there can be positive impacts to participants’ policy innovation capacity which can occur during the program. Policy hackathon programs therefore should not be judged entirely on the intervention’s outputs. The study also concludes with a discussion in relation to the islandness of public policy, policy innovation, policy hackathons, and evaluation heuristics. Finally, the paper offers some thoughts on findings which pointed to the existence of austerity and the need for greater citizen-focus in public policy.

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