Co-production 2 articles

113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Is Co-production the key to Public Services 2.0?

last updated over 2 years ago, 2 Comments

I was having an interesting discussion last night with colleagues and thought I would share it here. As you may have guessed, we were talking about "co-production". I think what is attractive about this idea is the promise it holds out of radical change - instead of public service being done to us by them (the government), public services would be done jointly. Instead of being subjects (or passive objects) we would be partners. In fact, it is already quite interesting that we feel this way a...

posted in Co-production Public_Services2.0

113_1356_medium Paul Johnston

Crowdsourcing in Chicago

last updated over 2 years ago, 0 Comments

I am a great fan of the Goldcorp story (how a Canadian gold company was going broke in 1999, posted all its most confidential mine info on net, challenged people to come up with new mining strategies, and got lots of great answers that helped it recover), so always interested in see the same kind of logic applied in the public sector. I recently saw this great story from Chicago where the Chamber of Commerce offered a $5000 reward for ideas on how to increase ridership on their bus system wil...

posted in crowdsourcing Co-production Chicago