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New Teachers' Guide Available

A new teachers’ guide has been posted under the “Teachers’ Corner” section of the site.

This guide accompanies the case study on the Canadian federal government’s homelessness partnering strategy. It facilitates the exploration of several topics found in the case, such as leveraging the collective power and cooperation.

Watch for future additions to Teachers’ Corner!

Comments Function Launched – Come Join the Conversation!

The Comments section

Nsworld.org aspires to be the platform for practitioners to exchange on what they and others are doing to help prepare government for the challenges of the 21st century. In support of this objective, comments functionality has now been added to the Findings and eBulletin sections of the site.

Take note that in order to leave a comment or share an example, you must be logged into your account. If you have not yet registered for an account, we encourage you to do so. It simply requires you to provide a valid email address and select a username.

Come join the conversation and contribute to the next exciting chapter of discovery at nsworld.org!

Get Connected to NS World!

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It is now easy for websites to link to nsworld.org. The new share button on the front page (see picture inset) links to NS banners of various dimensions and sizes. Simply choose the banner you like best and copy and paste the code for that banner to your website.

Want to include a short text to accompany that banner? No problem. A short description of the NS Project is also available for you to draw from as needed.

Check it out here and get connected!

Three New Case Studies Added

Three new case studies have been added to the Case Studies section of the website:

  • Australia's Co-Operative Federal Financial Agreement on the topics of community building, resilience, and shared accountability;
  • Collaborative Federalism: How Labour Mobility and Foreign Qualification Recognition are Changing Canada’s Intergovernmental Landscape, on the topics of co-production and working across boundaries; and
  • Organizing Government Around Problems: The Dutch Program Ministries for Youth and Family and for Housing, on the subjects of communities and integration, and working across boundaries.


    • We encourage you to review the free one-page summary available for each of the 14 cases on the site.

    Findings 7, The New Synthesis: An Enabling Framework, is Now Available

    The NS World team is pleased to announce that Findings 7 is now available.

    It recognizes that an adaptive, dynamic and co-evolving system of governance is needed to tackle the many complex challenges of the 21st century.

    Enriched with images, a video and quotes from practitioners, it highlights how this objective is supported by the NS enabling framework and the narrative of hope it provides.

    To learn more click here.

    Two New Teachers’ Guides Posted

    Teachers' guide

    Two new teachers’ guides have been posted under the “Teachers’ Corner” section of the site.

    The first guide accompanies the case study on the Bolsa Família Program. It facilitates the exploration of several topics found in the case, such as societal results, civic results and co-production.

    The second guide accompanies the case on Public Safety Centres in the Netherlands. It explores topics such as co-operation and working across boundaries.

    Both guides are available for purchase and download.

    8 New Case Studies are Available

    Eight new case studies have been added to the “Case Studies” section of the site.

    Written by partners in Singapore, Brazil, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia and the UK, the cases help reveal how governments in various parts of the world are adapting to the challenges they face.

    Findings 4, 5 and 6 Now Available

    Under the “Findings” section of the site, you will now find:

  • Findings 4: Government Fit for the Future
  • Findings 5: Building New Capacities: Emergence
  • Findings 6: Building New Capacities: Resilience

    • Collectively, these findings explore what changes would make the public sector more hospitable to new ideas and new ways of do­ing things, what can be done to improve its capacity to serve beyond the predictable, and how it can help to build a society with high adaptive capacity.

    Australia eBulletin Available

    A new eBulletin has been produced from Jocelyne Bourgon’s recent presentation, entitled “Governing in the 21st Century”.

    Delivered at the Australia and New Zealand Public Sector Summit in Torquay, Australia (February 22nd to 24th, 2012), the eBulletin pulls together three threads for advancing resilience: public policies for resilience, resilient policies, and resilient societies.

    To view this video and explore highlights from other lectures and events, simply continue to the eBulletins section of the site.

    NS World Message Expands to Australia

    The NS World message expanded to the Australia and New Zealand Public Sector Summit in Torquay, Australia (February 22 to 24, 2012).

    The event, organized by CISCO and the Centre for Social Impact (CSI), focused on ways to engage citizens and address the complex challenges and intractable problems faced by governments in the 21st Century.

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