IDEO’s work with the Partnership for Public Service is included in “The Federal Coach” Washington Post column. Tom Fox, director of the Center for Government Leadership at the The Partnership for Public Service, describes how government agencies and offices can spur innovation and deliver better results. He links to the report the Partnership for Public Service co-authored with IDEO titled, “Innovation in Government.” Download the report here.

IDEO’s Tim Brown spoke on The Daily Beast’s roundtable with Paul Saffo and John Kao about what might drive innovation in the coming 10 years. Tim talked about the impact synthetic biology and biotechnology will have on the way we think and network, and the shift that’s occurring from a physics-based way of thinking to a biology-based approach.
Read the full roundtable coverage here.

IDEO has partnered with General Assembly, a new community and education space built around tech and design, to offer courses for early-stage companies. Read more about General Assembly and IDEO’s involvement in the new concept on New York Times Bits Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Nathan Waterhouse spoke about the open innovation platform at CompostModern, an AIGA event that explores “fertile ground for designing a sustainable future. Treehugger, CNET, and Core77 wrote about their takes on the session.

The most widely read Spanish newspaper takes a look at IDEO’s methods and people. Read the full article, in Spanish, here.

Challenge Magazine, a publication written for Singapore’s public sector employees, profiles design thinking and talks about IDEO’s work. The feature is followed up by an interview with Tim Brown that covers designing for the less fortunate and the Singapore Ministry of Manpower’s move to embrace design thinking: Tim talks about the process: “I hope what Singapore does is to treat [design thinking] as an investment in the future and in innovation and have that similar commitment to adaptation and learning as the journey unfolds.”

After wrapping up a challenge that asked, “What global challenge do you think innovation leaders should work to solve right now?” on OpenIDEO, an open innovation platform, IDEO’s Nathan Waterhouse presented the findings to the i20, a group of global innovation leaders convened at the White House. The findings from the challenge helped to identify priorities and directions at the event that serves as a forum for discussion of innovation on a global scale.

Editor Peter Rowan writes about a newly created Google Doc that crowdsources tools for tech startups. It’s bucketed out by strategy and pricing, user experience, brand, recruiting, and funding. Read the post here and add your own resources in the editable Google doc here.

In his Designing Media blog, Bill Moggridge considers why we consume media with Neil Stevenson. Bill, the director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, has launched a blog around the release of his latest book Designing Media. Read the post here.

InformationWeek’s J. Nicholas Hoover talks with Social Security CIO Frank Baitman about the agency’s IT operations and his plans to push their infrastructure into the 21st century. Baitman says, “We asked IDEO to help think through what we needed to do to make the online experience something that people would choose for retirement.”

Read the full article here.