A post from Centre for Public Impact (CPI) & New America, Planetary Politics. The most recent United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP28, concluded with high stakes and high drama against a backdrop of extreme climate events and the … Read more
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Unlocking authentic community power: Rethinking public service engagement for real impact
The current state of community engagement in public service The bedrock of good governance in government rests upon the trust of the public. However, in many communities around the world public trust in government is fractured. In too many places,… Read more
Listening as a tool to reimagine governance: Madina and Padma’s story
The art of listening “You know, Padma,” Madina began, “Over the past five or six years, my dependence on NREGA has increased.” (In 2005, India enacted the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), guaranteeing rural households 100… Read more
Seven tips for running your next impact challenge
Identify a problem you want to solve, agree on the prize for its solution, and then spread the word to get the best ideas. When proposals come in, review them against the assessment criteria you’ve laid out, identify the best,… Read more
The information barriers holding back climate action and how to break them
Information systems in government – the structures through which we collect, analyze, and share information to guide our decisions and activities – are incomplete pictures of the human experience. As a result, local government leaders struggle to make bold, disruptive climate… Read more
What does the British Post Office scandal tell us about stories and government?
It’s one of the biggest news stories in the UK right now: how hundreds of Post Office staff were wrongly accused of theft and fraud due to the failures of the Horizon computer system. There are heartbreaking tales of… Read more
Move with intention: A Systems Innovation approach to zero emissions transit in King County, Washington
This is the first blog in a multi-part series on the Centre for Public Impact’s (CPI) partnership with King County Metro (Washington State’s public transit agency serving Seattle and King County) as they bring a systems innovation approach to their… Read more
Reimagining Government Special: Five things we recently learned about government failure
Five things we recently learned about government failure In season two episode four of our Reimagining Government podcast, co-hosts Adrian Brown and Athena Hughes discuss failure in government. They highlight: What government failure actually means What causes failure in… Read more
What on earth is a paradigm anyway?
Paradigm is one of those words that many of us pretend to understand. It feels like smart, radical talk. Or, dare we say it… a little bit like jargon. We’ve often tried to think of a better, more accessible word. Read more
Three ways 7GenCities is fostering transformative thinking
Jayne Engle is a Mission co-holder at Dark Matter Labs and Co-Lead of 7GenCities – a new collaborative focused on transformative thinking and action for future cities, community building, and Earth stewardship. With decades of experience working… Read more