This manual includes information about Open Policy Making as well as the tools and techniques policymakers can use to create more open and user-led policy.
This manual includes information about Open Policy Making as well as the tools and techniques policymakers can use to create more open and user-led policy.
Contents
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An introduction to Open Policy Making and design: This section introduces design, digital, data and Open Policy Making and tells you when to use this toolkit.
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1. Diagnosis: finding the policy problem: This section includes tools to help you understand a policy problem or policy area and the challenge facing you.
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2. Discovery: understanding user needs: This section helps you to understand users and their needs and begin to diagnose the policy problems and challenges that you need to fix.
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3. Development: generating ideas: This section shows how to translate user needs into policy and services and how you to work collaboratively with users and specialists.
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4. Delivery: prototyping and improving ideas: This section includes tools to help you move from low fidelity ideas to policies and services that can be delivered to users.
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Low cost tools: These cheap tools can help make policy more open.
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What to do if you only have 24 hours: This section is a step by step guide for running a workshop in 24 hours. It includes the tools and techniques needed to run through diagnosis, discovery and idea generation.
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Sensitive policy tools: Tools for sensitive or unannounced policy areas.
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A-Z and glossary: List of all the tools and techniques in the toolkit.