As presented by Andrew Do at the Civic Tech Toronto hacknight on Sep 15, 2015.

1. Policy Innovation Platform

2. NOTE
Please be aware that the
content in this presentation
are still in draft and are
intended for discussion
purposes only.

3. Imagine that
you are a…

8. …Looking to contribute to the public good with
innovative ideas that can achieve desirable policy
outcomes.

9. Recognition that governments must be more agile and innovative
in light of immense pressures to deliver more with less.
They are looking to collaborate externally with partners to
achieve desirable policy outcomes.

10. What can
this look
like
@Ryerson?

11. •Ryerson works with
governments to find a
policy challenge to
address.
Problem
Finding
•Ryerson’s Policy
Innovation Platform
curates a process for
participants to solve
the designated policy
challenge and
generate ideas.
Ideation
•Select ideas are chosen
to be incubated to be
developed and receive
support through Zone
Learning to develop the
idea
Incubation
•Developed ideas are
taken back to the
government and
evaluated to be
considered for
implementation.
Implementation

12. Multi-
disciplinary
teams
We can
own the
risk
We can be
neutral
conveners
We have
the assets
to take
ideas far

13. Diversity
Institute
DMZ
Privacy
and
Big Data
Transmedia
Zone
Fashion
Zone
Design
Fabrication
Zone
Social
Ventures
Zone
POLICY INNOVATION
PLATFORM
City Building
Institute
Cloud & Context
Aware Computing
Urban Water
Biomedical
Engineering,
Science & Tech
Brookfield
Institute for Innovation
and Entrepreneurship
Global Health
and Health Equity
Launch Zone
iBoost
Biomedical
Zone
Centre
For Urban
Energy
Legal
Innovation
Zone
Ryerson Assets

14. Zone Learning
CEDZ100
Year round
experiential
and work
integrated
course offering
Pioneering approach
to entrepreneurial
education that
enables
multidisciplinary
student-led teams to
take and develop
their ideas into
tangible
products/services

15. Best PracticesNumber of
governments
collaborating
with post-
secondary
institutions to
tackle policy
challenges

16. Where are we at?
Partnering with
the Ontario Public
Service to use the
Policy Innovation
Platform at
Ryerson to solve
provincial policy
challenges
In discussions with
the City of Toronto
to use the Policy
Innovation
Platform at
Ryerson to solve
urban policy
challenges

17. “How can we accelerate dialogue on accessibility
with the goal of helping to shift attitudes and
change behavior?”
1st Challenge

18. The Asks
Facilitator
Role
Participant
Role
Key Dates
October 23
October 26
November 2
November 5/6
Mentorship
Role

20. Contact
Andrew Do
Policy Advisor
Andrew.do@Ryerson.ca
Annalise Huynh
Policy Assistant
Annalise.huynh@Ryerson.ca
Parvinder Sachdeva
Research and Projects Officer
Parvinder.sachdeva@Ryerson.ca

21. Credits
• Joseph Wilson from Noun Project
• Colour Block from Noun Project