Sharing Power: Moving Beyond Tokenism to Collaborative Empowerment
Directly involving citizens from all walks of life in public decision-making and more open government is a mantra of our times. Yet so often this rhetoric falls far from reflecting reality.
What does it take to make the journey to empowered participation with citizens that actually works? How can we revitalise participation, moving from big gestures to the kind of scale that will really make a difference? What are the institutional barriers to adopting this in government? Why are we so far from seeing good methods deployed widely, even 40 years after we established what good looks like?
Berlin, 10243 Germany
Sascha Haselmayer
Senior Leader, Ashoka - Innovators for the Public
Marco Steinberg
CEO, Founder / Snowcone & Haystack
Katja Urbatsch
Founder & CEO / ArbeiterKind.de
Lene Krogh Jeppesen
Senior Consultant, Danish National Centre for Public-Private Sector Innovation