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The Hague Innovation Programme Delivery workshop

In November 2022, 23 organisations from 13 countries gathered in The Hague for a full day workshop on Innovation Programme Delivery. The attendees were government, academic and not-for-profit teams focussed on delivering complex innovation programmes in the public sector. For our GGA members, this was an opportunity to have refresher as to how our different programmes operate and explore the enablers and barriers to success. For our guests, it was an introduction to the GovTech Global Alliance and an opportunity to share best practice.

The day was a lively one as we worked through thorny issues around culture, compliance, promotion and impact. We broke out into groups to discuss the different topics and then fed back to the whole group with a summary of the findings. The GovTech Global Alliance has a family-feel to it, and given our international spread, it always feels great whenever we get together in person! You can read Rocio Suanzes post here.

Purpose

  • To meet up in person and run through the operations of the different GovTech Alliance members’ and guests’ programmes

  • To welcome relevant stakeholders to give them an understanding of the barriers/enablers to the successful running of the programmes

Outcomes

  • Greater understanding of different challenge programme methodologies and their operations.

  • Opportunity to build relationships and connections between the programmes

Outputs

  • We will publish in March 2023 our findings and documentation assembled as part of the workshop.

  • Operational snapshot of all our programmes

Morning breakout sessions:

1. Challenge Creation (how to recruit public sector clients, identify challenges, and build a meaningful call to action)

2. Marketing, Publicity, and Social Media (how to make your programme attractive to public sector organisations (challenge partners), potential company participants and other key stakeholders - in sales terminology, how to 'convert' the relevant stakeholders to participate, as well as looking how to promote the success of the programme)

3. Legal, compliance and contracting models (regulatory frameworks, procurement, aid, licensing/ IPR)

4. Innovation Programme Funding Models (securing operational funding to run the programme, securing procurement funding for the development of the solutions, and public sector investment funds to assist with scaling the solutions)

5. GovTech Global Alliance 2-Year Action Plan (setting strategic goals for the Alliance, articulating priorities, convening principles, and producing a North Star document with key events and milestones)

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Afternoon breakout sessions

1. Impact and Evaluation (maximizing the benefit of solutions developed and measuring tangible outcomes)

2. Programme Management (how to run the overall programme: managing key stakeholders parent organisation, public sector partners, participating companies, ensuring a smooth experience for everyone)

3. Business Case Development (building narratives to amplify success, learn from failures, connect with stakeholders, and demonstrate programme value)

4. Picking Winners (tales from the trenches// recruiting and selecting effective businesses, entrepreneurs, and innovators and what makes a great/or not so great public sector client)

Participating Organisations

Accelerate Estonia (Estonia); BrazilLAB (Brazil); Civic Software Foundation (USA/Europe); Connected Places Catapult (UK); CORVERS (Belgium); Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Norway); DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark); Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Germany); GIZ (The Netherlands); Gobe Studio (Spain); Government Office of Estonia (Estonia); GovTech Lab (at Innovation agency of Lithuania; GovTech NL (Netherlands); GRNET (Greece); ICTU (NL); Innovate UK (UK); PUBLIC (UK/Europe); Scottish Government (Scotland); StartOff (Norway); The Lisbon Council (Belgium); The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (Norway); TOKVIL (Belgium); UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (UK); Ease of Doing Business, Ministry of Economy (Nigeria).