I am spending today and tomorrow at Perth GovJam .  This is a part of the Global GovJam taking place across the in over 20 countries around the world. We have “48 hours to rock the public sector” … About 60 of us are rapid prototyping solutions for the government sector, doing not talking, accepting uncertainty and failure as part of the process.

I am also on Tweeting duty from the official  account for the Perth event, @perthgovjam . I only used the hashtag #pggovjam last night, but if you want to see what is happening globally, look to #ggovjam .

Last night we worked on sharing what “gov” means to us, thought about the theme, suggested some ideas and worked out what we would like our solutions to feel like. This involved a lot of postit notes, Sharpies, movement, laughter, yelling, drawing, thinking, categorising and moving.

We are formed into groups who are roughly working on ideas … all subject to change during the rest of the two days.

The Theme was revealed as “HC SVNT DRACONES” … I’ll leave it to you to work out what it involves.

I have brought in some of my kids’ toy cars and a large set of Wedgits so I can move them around as I think about the group that I have chosen, working on the idea: ” Make Perth’s transport and housing accessible to everyone. Make Movement Easier”. Many solutions involved crowd-sourcing and better organising government information … I stayed WAAAAY away from those projects as I want to work on something outside my expertise and interests .. and I didn’t want to be the voice saying “well, actually this project tried that and this is what happened, and have you considered x, y, z “… because I am not sure how useful it would be 🙂

(I *may* even go back and rotate the images in this post if I get time)