Latest CSI News

  Good general websites

• Institute for Government

• The New Economics Foundation

• Danny Finkelstein on Comment Central in The Times

• Conservative manifesto on Transparency

• Social Exclusion Taskforce (very good but old)

  Twitter feeds

• New Economics Foundation
  

• Sunlight Foundation
  

• Tim Montgomerie

• FutureGov
  

• SICamp
  

• GovLoop
  

• Participle

• and Jonty @jontyoc
  

  On behaviour 

• The best read on behaviour overall and a good start:
  
  • Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Collins, 2008.

• About choice architecture: setting defaults and the way people opt in and out
  
  • Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, Yale University Press, 2008.
    

• The best book on social networks and peer effects:
  
  • Nicholas A. Christakis, Connected: The Surprising Power fo Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
    

• What government can and cannot do to influence our behaviour:
  
  • Royal Society of the Arts Report, Changing the Subject.
    

• On reciprocal altruism:
  
  • David Willetts, The Ideas that are Changing Politics, the 2008 Oakeshott Lecture
    

• From Tony Blair's adviser:
  
  • The Telegraph, interviews with Matthew Taylor, 2007

• Madeleine Bunting, In control? Think again. Our ideas of brain and human nature are myths, The Guardian, Aug 23, 2009.

• and David Halpern's forthcoming work on mindspace for the UK Cabinet Office 2010.

  On collaboration

• Good 20 minute video based on Clay Shirky's book Here comes everybody about online collaboration. Look for the part on flash mobs:
  
  • Royal Society of the Arts, Clay Shirky video

• On open source government:
  
  • Royal Society of the Arts, speech by Osborne on Open Source Government. Osborne is the Conservative shadow finance minister.
  • Olsen Memorial Lecture, speech by Osborne entitled 'Politics and the Media in the Internet Age'.

• A good book to read:
  
  • Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Portfolio Hardcover, 2006.
    

• District of Columbia getting citizen input into problems that can be solved with technology:
  
  • APPS for Democracy

• Dell's ideas site:
  
  • Ideastorm best illustrated in this video on Youtube
    

• NZ Government's use of a wiki to draft legislation:
  
  • BBC article on Wiki NZ police act

• About the wiki for the US intelligence services:
  
  • Intellipedia (the wiki for the US intelligence services)

• A sort of Facebook for collaboration which is taking off in the UK
  
  • Huddle.net

• The Whitehouse collaboratively drafting:
  
  • Mixedink and mixedink.com/opengov
    

• Patient input into the NHS:
  
  • Patientopinion.org.uk

• Check out the blogs at:
  
  • FutureGov
  • PBAge

  On data

• The CSI supported first Australian Social Innovation Camp
  • based on the UK Social Innovation Camp, SICamp.org

• The Power of Information review, Cabinet Office UK, 2007, Ed Mayo and Tom Steinberg.

• mySociety and derivatives:
  • FixMyStreet
  • WhatDoTheyKnow

• Heart Surgery in the UK
  

• USAspending.gov

• Show Us a Better Way
  

• Access City
  

• Sunlight Foundation

• UK Government opening up data for reuse:
  
  • Data.gov.uk

  On social design

• NESTA, Co-Production report sets out some of the broader framework.
  

• Social Innovation Lab, Just Coping Report is a brilliant example of the technique.
  

• The Innovation Unit is a spin out of the Department for Education focussing on how best to innovate in government.

• Parker and Parker, Demos report, Journey to the Interface, 2006 is probably the best introduction. Chapter 1 is fantastic.
  

• Participle, Beveridge 4.0 report put the overall case compellingly. Their work in Swindon and Southwark is widely cited in the UK.
  

• RED program at the Design Council. An early attempt to promote social design thinking.
  

• The 5 Million Lives Campaign, Institute for Health Care Improvement, and McKinsey article on the scheme.
  

• The Productive Ward series, NHS shows the power of this technique with big improvement in efficiency.

• Examples of companies working in the area:
  • Live/Work
  • Engine Service Design
    
  • Ideo
  • Think Public

  On Social Return on Investment

• Geoff Mulgan, The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good, Oxford University Press, 2008.
  

• David Halpern, The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Polity Press, 2009.

• Steve Hilton and Giles Gibbons, Good Business: Your World Needs You, Texere Publishing, 2002.

• Policy Exchange, Give and Let Give report

• Policy Exchange, Building Bridges report

• The Young Foundation, Social Impact Bonds website. This is the key place to go.
  

• Venturesome are UK leaders in social finance.

• The Shaftesbury Partnership

• Charities Ark making huge impacts by focussing on SROI.

  On Progressive Conservatism

• Demos, Progressive Conservatism Project
  

• Demos report, Leading from the Front
  

• Radio National, Geraldine Doogue's interview with Jonty Olliff-Cooper, 2009
  

• Jonty Olliff-Cooper, Progressive Conservatism in Contemporary Britain podcast
  

• Centre for Social Justice, Breakdown Britain
  

• Centre for Social Justice, Breakthrough Britain
  

• Centre for Social Justice, Dynamic Benefits: Towards Welfare that Works
  

• About intergenerational unfairness:
  • David Willetts' new book Pinch
    

• David Cameron, The Big Society speech, The Hugo Young Lecture 2009. This is one of the key texts.
  

• On a new form of GDP:
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Mismeasuring our lives: why GDP doesn't add up, New Pressorporation, 2010
    

• Olds model, Nurse-Family Partnership
  

• Guide Neighbourhood network leading bottom up work on regeneration.
  

• Conservative Party Green Paper on Education, Raising the Bar, Closing the Gap describing the free model of school reform.

• The Guardian, articles by Jenni Russell
  

• The case for why we need to take innovation seriously:
  • NESTA report, The Innovation Imperative

• Experimental funds for social innovation:
  • The NESTA lab

• Institute for Government report on Canada's recovery from recession.

• Speech by Oliver Letwin on the post-bureaucratic age.

• Compass, Is the Future Conservative?, interview with Oliver Letwin can be found on page 71.