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The concept has been taken up initially by academics, think tanks and NGOs, and later by a number of public sector organisations in the United Kingdom.
In 2004 it was used by the BBC as the cornerstone of its manifesto for the renewal of its charter.
In 2006 Accenture launched the Institute for Public Service Value, to explore how public value is created in government organizations.
In 2006, the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) in partnership with SAP AG, conducted research on the topic of public value in the context of governments’ investments in Information Technology (IT). The results of this research found that governments’ ability to realize the full value of IT investments is not completely measurable in terms of financial results. More specifically, the five U.S. and international governments studied, looked for the full value of government IT investments in both the internal value to government operations and the broader political and social returns to the public at large.
From this point of view, there are two sources of public value: 1. Value that results from improving the government itself as an asset to society and 2. value that results from the delivery of specific benefits directly to persons or groups.
In October 2008 UK-based The Work Foundation published "Public Value: The Next Steps in Public Service Reform" .
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