Open Policy Making toolkit

This manual includes information about Open Policy Making as well as the tools and techniques policy makers can use to create more open and user led policy.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• Low cost tools

  These cheap tools can help make policy more open.

• 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.

• Sensitive policy tools

  Tools for sensitive or unannounced policy areas.

• A-Z and glossary

  List of all the tools and techniques in the toolkit.