MIT has just released the latest edition of its journal innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, which features an article by Andrew Wolk and Colleen Gross Ebinger on "Government and Social Innovation".

Root Cause's latest thought piece on government and social innovation, this article begins creating a framework through which to analyze early stage efforts by governments and cross-sector partnerships trying to create systemic solutions to pressing problems. Interviews were conducted with government leaders at all levels from the White House to state and city government and with thought leaders across sectors. 

The article profiles several such initiatives, breaking them down into the following categories:

• Offices - including government and quasi-government
• Liasions - including foundation-government liaisons, state agency liaisons, and independent/issue-specific liaisons

The full MIT Innovations issue is a comemorative "New Orleans Five Years After Katrina" issue.  More information about the Tulane-Rockefeller 2010 Model City Conference can be found here.  The full Fall 2010 Innovations issue is here.