Building digital identity, payments, & data exchange as infrastructure to scale solutions in agriculture, health, poverty, climate, & other sectors promises to be a compelling public intervention of this decade.

Read IIPP Deputy Director David Eaves on #DPI : medium.com/iipp-blog/what…

I'm still looking for a couple more participants. Please share with your networks 💖

It was great to see @Stormzy back in Cambridge last week! 🤩

The musician was at Jesus College to meet the students he, and HSBC UK, support through the Stormzy Scholarships.

He also met with Vice-Chancellor Prof Deborah Prentice and the College’s Master, Sonita Alleyne.

Agreeing on ambitious, societally relevant goals is essential, but not sufficient for successful mission-directed government. Read my latest piece Project Syndicate w/ Rainer Kattel on how missions require a fundamental rethink of policymaking tools + processes ⬇️ project-syndicate.org/commentary/mis…

Join us in June for UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose's annual Forum, this year's theme on driving transformative #publicpolicy in the era of #climate emergency.

sWe'll be doing some bit and bobs of applied learning co-creation around and about the days as well, so thoughts welcome ✨

Embarrassing & astonishing! How could Nesta,Reform & IPPR risk their prestige not citing the author that everyone knows initiated the mission economy idea? But great that everybody wants mission-led government. Big success for Mariana Mazzucato

It is very curious to see already a third report on mission-driven government (Nesta, Reform, now IPPR) without a single reference to the original source of these ideas, Mariana Mazzucato. It is an embarrassing and sycophantic look.

Top of our reading list this month has been Decisionscape by former BIT employee, Elspeth Kirkman (now Nesta’s Chief Programmes Officer) exploring what drives our decision-making and how we can use these forces for good ⚖️ Learn more on the blog👇
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June 12th - UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose Forum 2024 - Rethinking the State. Sign up for in person or online...
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

A potential change in UK government in 2024 could trigger a radical shift in the government’s structure, vision + ambition.

Join me, Georgia Gould + Helen MacNamara for the launch of #MissionCritical , our report on operationalising mission-oriented policy in the UK, building…

I will be speaking at #G4I2024 in Madrid! Looking forward to seeing a number of colleagues who I see are in town for it as well! invt.io/1txb3cocuup

Don't forget - to vote in a polling station at the city council and PCC elections this Thursday (2 May), you'll need to bring photo ID such as passport, driver's licence, blue badge, PASS card... Check out our website to see all the forms of ID accepted cambridge.gov.uk/voter-id-in-po…

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Time to apply if you haven’t already! Come and work with us at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose Rainer Kattel David Eaves

Your regular reminder that we don’t know exactly when Shakespeare’s birthday was but we quite like to think it’s the 23rd (partly because he died on the 23rd and it’s too much symmetry to pass up). Anyway, enjoy this chart 🥳

Daniel Kahneman was one of the keenest chroniclers of humans as we actually are. And he knew better than anyone his own shortcomings & blind spots. To remember both his greatness & humanity, we collected memories & lessons from some of those closest to him.behavioralscientist.org/remembering-da…

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IIPP is looking for an Applied Learning & Stakeholder Manager (Maternity Cover) to lead the delivery of our suite of applied learning projects with local, national, and international partners.

Deadline: 28 April ‘24

More details here ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Come and work with us, building applied learning at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Really exciting opportunity to help build programmes with practitioners around the world from the ground up. Pls share!

We have an excellent developing applied learning programme, and this is a great opportunity to help shape it!

A reminder that #ActNowFilm is looking for young climate leaders from across the world to contribute to this year's film, which will premiere at COP29! Apply now: forms.office.com/e/FivJ1rUgna

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #YoungClimateLeader #COP29Azerbaijan