March 2011 Blog Posts (6)

The Cardiff Co-production Roadshow was also a great day, buzzing with the sense of a growing movement.

Philip Colligan, Executive Director of NESTA's Public Service Lab, talked about why co-production is part of the answer to the challenges that public services are facing and identified the challenges that need to be addressed to overcome the incumbency bias across public services and bring co-production closer to the mainstream - different approaches to commissioning, a culture shift…

We had a great day out north of the border in Edinburgh for the Scottish co-production roadshow event. There was a big crowd (even with people from the reserve list queuing at the door!), which has got to be a first for co-production, and a great sign for its future in Scotland.

David Boyle, a nef fellow did a brilliant keynote introducing the idea of co-production, and talked about its emergence as a concept in the United States, and the more recent work nef has…

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Have finally managed to track down some videos from the Public Services Inside Out launch event.

If you go to Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/) and sign up/log in, and search for 'Public Services Inside Out' there are a number of videos of practitioners talking about co-production, with some really interesting insights.

Working on getting them uploaded to this site too -

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How brilliant is this 'graffiti?' Poses interesting questions about the public space, freedom, and individual expression within a co-production debate.I see it as a metaphor for how volunteering in all its forms will move from the double yellow lines paradigm of formality to become an expression of both our individual and collective…

It's a psychological truth that 'what you see is what you get' from others.

If your starting point is to see a person/group as having something of value to offer and that there is a dialogue and negotiation to work through then the end result is much more likely to be fruitful.

If, on the other hand, the psychology is manipulative or based on applying pre set ideas onto people the value is doomed!

The basic building block in co production, I think, is how we perceive…