What’s New
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Volume 29, Issue 3, 2024
Open Issue
Peer-Reviewed Papers:
- Exploring Innovation in the Public Sector: Study of direct and indirect effects of psychological safety, learning behaviour, transformational leadership and learning attitudes on innovation climate, Marit Oppen, Inland University of Applied Sciences, Rena, Norway.
- Innovative Approaches to Public Services Delivery through the Prism of the Industry 5.0 Paradigm, by Baurzhan Bokayev, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA; Aigerim Amirova, Center for Analytical Research and Evaluation, Supreme Audit Chamber; Abilzhan Galy, Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Anar Yessengeldina, Center for Analytical Research and Evaluation, Supreme Audit Chamber; Kuralay Sadykova, Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; all four in Astana, Kazakhstan.
- Innovative Differences among Canadian Federal and Provincial Governments, by Eleanor D. Glor, Fellow, Public Administration and Management, McLaughlin College, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Book Reviews:
- Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It), by Elizabeth Anderson, with an Introduction and Comments by Others, reviewed by Donald R. Officer.
News:
- Wanda Dalla Costa, University of Alberta alumna, Department of Sociology and the Faculty of Native Studies, is Canada’s first female First Nations architect. Dalla Costa seeks to innovate contemporary architecture by integrating the rich history of Native culture.
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The Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation is taking applications for the 2025 year! Please see the attached flier and help us spread the word with your friends and colleagues. Applications are due January 22, 2025.
The Touch of Genius Prize was developed to inspire entrepreneurs, educators, or inventors to continue the promotion of braille and tactile literacy for blind and deafblind people worldwide. This prize can be granted for innovative and accessible computer software applications, tactile hardware, or curriculum that promotes braille and/or tactile literacy. NBP encourages all applicants to think outside the box for what can be used to help improve the lives of blind people. Even if you have applied in previous years, we encourage you to apply again! The winner of this prize will receive up to $10,000, which will help them to continue to innovate in the fields of technology and education for the blind community. The Touch of Genius Prize for Innovation is provided by the support of Susan Olivo and the Lavelle Fund for the Blind.
Full application details and more information can be found at www.touchofgeniusprize.org.
All questions can be directed to geniusprize@nbp.org.
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CALJ Innovation Award
Journal Editors,
We are pleased to announce that the application process for the 2024 CALJ Innovation Award is now open.
This award recognizes innovation implemented or first measured in 2023 by a Canadian scholarly journal and which is focused on enhancing readership and/or other forms of engagement with journal content.
This is our opportunity to showcase the innovation that’s happening in Canada with our scholarly journals!
Prize: The winner will receive a certificate honouring their achievements as well as a free annual membership to CALJ, and an announcement will be posted on CALJ websites. The winner will be announced at the CALJ Annual Meeting in June.
Applying: To learn more about eligibility criteria and the application process, please visit the application form and guidelines.
Deadline for applications: Midnight PST, June 3, 2024
Prior winners of the Award:
- Canadian Public Policy
- Canadian Literature for its CanLit Guide
- The Toronto Journal of Theology for its video introductions
- FACETS – for its innovative multidisciplinary publishing format
- Encounters in Theory and History of Education for its Digital Media and Methods Section
Canadian Association of Learned Journals – https://www.calj-acrs.ca/news
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- Data-Smart City Solutions. Newsletter published by: Harvard Kennedy School, 79 J. F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA. Link: https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/ and https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/artificial-intelligence/
- John Hannaford, Privy Council Clerk of the Government of Canada, sets up public service teams to think about future problems, by Policy Options. Originally published in Policy Options December 7, 2023. Link: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2023/dms-future-pu
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Published August 30, 2024