Giving Compass' Take:

• At The Aspen Institute, experts discuss how we can encourage governments to take risks and use them as opportunities to learn from their mistakes.

• Why is the coronavirus the time to take risks in your giving? How can we illuminate the benefits of learning from failure for local governments?

• Learn more about why you should take risks in your response efforts, too, during the coronavirus.

Local governments everywhere are showing resilience, speed, and innovative spirit in the face of an unprecedented crisis. They are taking risks, failing, and learning as they go. But this spirit of experimentation and learning from failure is all too rare in local government.  This expert panel of city leaders, technologists, and innovators discuss why it is usually so hard to learn from failure in government and what governments and their allies can do about it.

This panel coincides with the new release of How to Fail (Forward): A Framework for Fostering Innovation in the Public Sector, a report from the Centre for Public Impact and the Aspen Institute Center for Urban Innovation.

Watch the full video about why governments should take risks and learn from their failures at The Aspen Institute.