Introduction

We all want good public services. When we get them we can say thank you. When we’re disappointed we should say “wouldn’t it be better if...?”

So together with thinkpublic Ideal Government invites everyone to help design better public services in a new competition called “Mind the Gap”. It’s open to anyone who wants to express their desire for better public services.

“Mind the Gap” is a collaboration between thinkpublic’s ‘Real work experience’ programme for design graduates and Ideal Government’s “Wibbipedia” philosophy of collecting ideas about how public services could be better.

Who can enter?

This is for anyone who uses public services and feels they can express how they could be better. All you have to do is describe a public service exactly as it is, and then describe just how good it could be.
This can be with words or illustration - whatever medium works best. Kable and thinkpublic people can enter but can’t win prizes.

How do I enter?

1. Describe plainly and accurately a positive or negative experience you have had with a public service. It could be when you visited the doctor, used public transport or the local library, got taxed, waited in a call-centre queue, got arrested or applied for asylum for example. Share this experience in some way, using a photograph, words, illustration or whatever medium best conveys it.

2. Say “Wouldn’t it be better if…” Then design, draw, make, write or film how you think this service should be.

3. Send it in!

Mail mindthegap[at]therealworkexperience.com
or post it to
The Real Work Experience ”Ideal Government” competition
c/o thinkpublic
5 Calvert Ave
London, E2 7JP
Entries will appear on TheRealworkExperience and IdealGovernment
Judges from thinkpublic and Ideal Government will select a monthly winner. We’ll work out some goodies for prizes as we go along. All winning and commended ideas will be collected and credited in a “Wibbipedia” collection of ideas for service improvements in the public sector. The aim of the Wibbipedia is to illustrate the potential of better design thinking for improving public services.

Wrap up...

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