INITIATIVES

GAP initiatives are underpinned by a process we call the ‘Second Track’. It streamlines previously ad-hoc mechanisms for stakeholder engagement in government consultation and decision making.

GAP’s Second Track process brings together creative thinkers from relevant sectors (government, business, academia, non-government organisations and consumer groups) with a likeminded approach to resolving the issues positively and driving practical outcomes. Working collaboratively, these groups identify problems, initiate discussions, prepare white papers, develop solutions and oversee their implementation.

GAP has pioneered and effectively used the Second Track process in areas of knowledge capital, philanthropy and social investment, critical thinking education, participative democracy, strata reforms, urban water pricing, telecommunications regulation, telehealth, pharmacogenomics, low carbon economy, space industry, international relations and more. An overview of GAP’s select Secont Track projects and their outcomes is available here.

The success of GAP initiatives demonstrates that these new ways of interaction between government, business and the community can be further developed, tested and refined for the public benefit, without putting at risk the core, fundamental machinery of government.

If you would like to discuss a particular project, please contact us on +61 2 8303 2420 or by email.

More information:

• Twenty years on the Second Track: GAP case studies – Catherine Fritz-Kalish, Journal of Behavioural Economics and Social Systems (BESS), vol. 1, no. 1, August 2019