The Netherlands Knows How to Innovate

November 27, 2010 By Aminda

November 29 kicks off the third and largest Open Innovation Festival bringing together Dutch communities. According to the event’s website, the festival aims to innovate the public domain in order to showcase how governmental organizations, the profit sector and knowledge institutions can cooperate. Furthermore, it aims at showing that by working together we will create a more effective, more efficient and better government. The central theme of OIF2010 is working in communities.

More than 20 municipalities will participate in hosting a week-long program for civil workers who will attend workshops given by local entrepreneurs, experts, and others from both outside and inside government, all of them volunteers. These workshops share the latest developments in themes like web2.0, gov2.0, connected working styles, public service innovation and open government data. At high speed civil servants get a chance to see and hear the latest things, as well as explore how this might be useful in their day to day work, and where and how to start. Open government data is on the program in a number of these local programs.

The November 2010 Festival was organized after smaller versions were successful in the cities of Amsterdam and Enschede. This is yet just another great example of how governments have embraced open innovation. Check out some more great case studies from Canada, Ireland, and South Africa.


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