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In his speech at the Government Economics Network conference alongside Government Statistician Liz Macpherson, Andrew Kibblewhite, Head of the Policy Profession, said that policy practitioners needed to understand the value and application of data and methods like behavioural insights and design thinking so that New Zealand could be “world-leading in the evidence and advice that supports government decision making”
The Policy Project collaborated with GEN to facilitate workshops on Day 2 of the conference where participants engaged with methods and experts in behavioural insights, design thinking and data analytics using a real example taken from the Ministry of Justice’s investment approach. The conversation tracker below is a record of those workshops.