Jonatan Beun, Argentina’s General Coordinator of Public Innovation at the Undersecretary of Public Innovation and Open Government, on the impact of offering virtual innovation classes to fellow public servants.
Public administration universities, where budding civil servants learn the fundamentals of policymaking, law and leadership, are common.
But Argentina may be the only country with a government-run school devoted to teaching public servants how to innovate.
In just the three years to mid-2018, 15,000 government employees had taken classes at the Buenos Aires-based Design Academy, funded by the Government Lab of Argentina (LABGobAr).
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