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Patricia Rogers (BetterEvaluation/ ANZSOG)

The changing nature of programs and policies and the context in which they are implemented, and the rise of different focuses for evaluation, create a need and opportunity for innovation.  Innovation can be in the form of new technology (such as using social media data or machine learning for analysis),  a bricolage, or a patchwork, of previous ideas and techniques brought together more coherently and used  more systematically, or borrowing ideas and methods from other disciplines and professions. However it is not so easy to choose which of these new approaches might be appropriate to use, or to develop the skills and infrastructure to use them.  This session will present a small number of innovations in evaluation and focus on a discussion around what is needed for participants to be able to use them - in terms of what can be done by individuals, agencies, the AES and other organisations.