Doha: The Civil Services and Government Development Bureau of Qatar (CGB) announced today a partnership with the Global Innovation Management Institute (GIMI) to hold Qatar’s first government services hackathon, at the Qatar Research, Development and Innovation (QRDI) Council, from March 19-21, exclusively targeting government sector employees, with the aim of developing innovative upgrades and solutions for government services.

CGB President Abdulaziz bin Nasser bin Mubarak Al Khalifa said that organizing this first Hackathon with the objective of developing government services, comes within the framework of Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation Strategy 2030 (QRDI 2030), adding that this hackathon is an outstanding step towards upgrading governmental services and encouraging innovation upon the public sector and its employees.

For his part, GIMI Managing Director Dr. Hitendra Patel expressed his enthusiasm for this collaboration by remarking that visionary leaders and governments are the first to imagine a better future and create it, with the government of Qatar being a case in point, as it does not wait for the future to come to it, instead it leads proactively to better its services for the well-being of its citizens, residents and guests through innovation.

In this context, CGB and GIMI organized two preparatory workshops for 60 participants, on innovation in governmental services, targeting five government bodies, with the aim of enabling employees to be part of the service development process, training them on using various techniques and programs to set and track government services’ workings, identify challenges, and produce best solutions.

1. Share the latest news from GIMI

• • Four new members in the CTP network: GIMI officially welcomed Grupo Edutec from Ecuador, SNBX from El Salvador, TDM Internacional from Mexico and Triangle Equity Partners from Australia. These CTPs were represented by Lucia Acurio, Tony Carbonero, David Fernandez and Kent Matla, respectively. 
  • 3 New Intellectual Property developed during the last year
    • GIMI Impact: GIMI’s social innovation program that aims to inspire young people to use innovation to solve social challenges in their communities.
    • Leadership program: After successfully training 1500 leaders in Brazil, IXL and GIMI have standardized a world-class program that uses new learning styles and a proven methodology to drive leaders to become the best version of themselves
    • Innovation Potential Assessment: GIMI created the Innovation Potential Framework to assess individuals and help companies leverage their potential to build high-performing teams and identify their training needs

• • GIMI Futuristic Network: GIMI has launched its Futuristic Network with Netstairs, Dii Desert Energy, and NICA as a powerful force to drive insights from different centers of excellence around the world into actions that build the future
  • Innova Latam 2022 will have its fourth edition in November and will bring +1.000 people to share best practices, tools, and knowledge around corporate innovation in Cartagena, Colombia. Some of our central themes will be, innovative leadership for the future, Innovation DNA, and Innovation ecosystems, among others.

2. Recognize the efforts of CTPs to increase certified people in their regions

At this point GIMI spotlights the three main CTPs with the largest number of certificates: IXL Boston with 8127, IXL Colombia with 2200 and Sia Partners Arab Emirates with 1900, and the three other partners such as SWRL with 600, Clarus Consulting with 328, and KACE with 230 and mentioned that they had the highest growth in 2022.

CTPs shared how to mitigate challenges in each region coming from lack of awareness around innovation, political instability, shortage of training budgets etc. 

3.       Exchange best practices and discuss challenges with each other

CTPs shared their best practices and strategies how to win the market of a) Governments, b) Corporates, c) Universities and d) SMEs

GIMI appreciates the presence of all partners and will continue to ensure that together we can democratize innovation in the world, and we will!