Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
We bring multidisciplinary expertise to help teams understand the present, imagine the future and design ways to achieve the policy impact they intend. We were set up in 2014 as part of the Civil Service Reform plan to make policy making more open and continue to work in support of government reform to create A Modern Civil Service. Our methods are grounded in evidence, participation and experimentation. They draw on diverse perspectives, tackle complexity and build consensus. Our support is best suited to tackling intractable, complex, systemic policy problems that require fresh thinking and can lead to potentially transformative solutions.
CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York State, and across the United States.
Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) is a refugee-founded and led organisation, which began in 2016 as community-based initiative in Rhino Camp refugee settlement West Nile region of Uganda
The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.
The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.
