Centre for Public Innovation has been active in the international level, promoting innovation in the public sector. Below you will read some of the international events CPI has been contributing.
South Africa - The 2nd Annual CPSI Public Sector Innovation Conference – November 2008
Mark Napier, CPI’s Managing Director, is invited to attend the 2nd Annual CPSI Public Sector Innovation Conference which is going to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 27-28 November 2008. The CPSI was launched in 2002 for the Public Service and Administration with a mandate to promote, nurture and award innovation in the public sector. The theme chosen for this year's conference is "People-Centred Innovation". Mark will make a presentation concerning innovation in public sector, under the theme of 'Citizen Convenience' on the first day.
You may click here to see Mark Napier's presentation in this conference.
For more information about the conference, please click here.
New York - Innovation for Better Outcomes (TIE) – January/ February 2009
This is the sixth year the Centre for Public Innovation has been organizing a Transatlantic Innovation Event (TIE). CPI has been running TIE events since January 2003 every year (with the exception of last year) which have been always popular with fantastic feedback from participants every time. Each event is strictly limited to 25 places to ensure a high standard of training and plenty of time for one-to-one support and tuition.
This course will give a chance to the delegates to understand the principles of innovation and outcome management as powerful, practical tools. To further ground the learning in practical experience, the delegates will hear how the USA public sector is innovating and what successes they have achieved.
This yea, the TIE event will take place on 29 January – 2 February 2009, in New York. In order to read more about the event, agenda, course fee and booking procedure, please click here.
Holland - Prison Health Study Tour - March 2005
CPI took a group of prison health professionals on a study tour to Holland, funded jointly by the Nuffield Trust and the Prison Health taskforce. The study tour was hosted by the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands with an intense itinerary featuring visits to several prisons and presentations from many experts and specialists in the fields of criminal justice and health. The site visits included: Areas of study for the group included harm minimisation, through care and aftercare, co-morbidity, diversity, recidivism and methadone prescribing. For more information, see here.
Barcelona – “Brains not Brawn” - January 2005
CPI ran a workshop to bring together European police units to co-operate better on the trafficking and misuse of drugs in the union. This event was part of a series of workshops called ‘Policing drugs on the streets of Europe’ to combat drug crime at street level. Over 200 specialist officers attended these workshops to work towards meeting and sharing ideas and information.
Peter Mason ran the workshop for CPI encouraging police forces to become more creative and businesslike in their approach. Peter urged that as drug dealers become bolder and more entrepreneurial, the challenge is for criminal justice agencies to do so too.
To read more, please click here.
US – Prison Health Study Tour - January 2004
In partnership with the Department of Health, the Centre for Public Innovation, took a group of health professionals from the UK on a study tour of correctional facilities in New York City and State. The aim of this study tour was to learn good practice in the US on topics such as telemedicine, caring from the terminally ill and elderly prisoners, mother and baby units suicide prevention schemes, etc. To read more about this study tour, see here.
