Hacking the Bureaucracy

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Innovation Ideas
Digital Transformation
The Australian Federal Government
have recently create the Digital
Transformation Office, which was
created to help Government change its
processes to deliver a better experience
for Australians. It was modelled off the
Government Digital Service (UK) with a
number of early staff coming over to set
up the Australian office.
Along with being charged to help
overhaul digital service across the
public sector, the Organisation brings
in individuals and teams from select
Government Departments to work on
specific projects. This occurs in in the
span of eight weeks. An ideal is building
capacity within the teams involved to
bring back to their own Departments and
continue the innovation process.
Code for Australia
The emergence of the not-for-profit
organisation, Code for Australia
(based on a model founded in the
United States), showcases how to work
with Government Departments to
build capacity to allow innovation
to take place.
Each year Government Departments
can apply to have a “fellow” join the
Organisation for a year, free of charge
to the Department, to work on a range
of projects, mainly technical in nature.
This allows Departments that would
otherwise be without the resources or
incentive to act upon opportunities to
have an internal technical resource at
their disposal. The intent is to build the
capacity within the public sector and
expose external developers and designers
to working within the sector.
build the capacity
within the public
sector