🎓 Meet the academic helping cities spend smarter. Professor Rebecca Riley from the University of Birmingham picked up top tips from a comedy legend at school and is now helping cities make better spending choices alongside the Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre (IPEC). Read more: https://lnkd.in/e-Sc_uuS #Cities #IPEC #PublicSector #SmarterSpending #Procurement #ProcurementInnovation
Great write up 👏👏 - never knew you went to school with Peter Rebecca Riley 🙌
Great write up! We’re working to shift local authority citizen engagement with MUNIvers, our unique GovernmentNet platform whixh was conceived in Canada/ANZ and is now been localised for the UK market in partnership with Birmingham City University/STEAMhouse - a real made in Birmingham story that will enhance the citizen experience with their authority. Exciting times!
And she is really good at it as well
Helping shift mindsets on public sector innovation, that balance between risk and progress feels especially relevant right now.