Cross-government collaboration by civil servants, for civil servants. Tips and tricks from collaborators that will help you turn visions into reality

One of the key reasons behind failed attempts at cross-department coordination is that government bureaucracies lack the supporting architecture needed for joined-up-working. Thea Snow examines the success stories and sincere attempts of cross-government collaboration around the world.

A few weeks ago, I turned to Twitter to crowdsource some of the content for this article. This is what I tweeted:

Doing research for an article which I’ll be writing on grass-roots/bottom-up initiatives to support cross-agency collaboration in Govt. E.g. @OneTeamGov. What other initiatives exist out there that I should know about?

Within 24 hours, my tweet had received more than 30 likes, 13 retweets and more than 50 comments.

The twitter thread made clear that there are passionate public servants all over the world experimenting with grassroots approaches to driving cross-agency collaboration.