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Equality & Equity Technology & Data Organisational Culture & Governance Digital | In Person English Mainstage
Thu | Jun 02, 2022 | 11.00 AM - 11.50 AM Europe/Berlin Time

The Bold Bureaucracy: Changing the System

Giulio Quaggiotto, Anir Chowdhury, Lisa Witter, Johannes Nuutinen

Talk 1: Can Global Bureaucracies Be Reinvented?

“We reflect patterns in the systems, and they reflect patterns in us” – Amahra Spence. Now more than ever, global bureaucracies seem to be under strain from overlapping crises. Is it even conceivable that they will find the will to renew themselves? And if so, where should one start?

This talk will draw on the experience of working with governments around the world and introduce some possible line of inquiries around institutional renewal. Ultimately, it will focus on the personal responsibility of practicing and modelling change.

Speaker: Giulio Quaggiotto, UNDP

 

Talk 2: Delivering Digital Opportunities For All

Bangladesh’s dreams of becoming a prosperous, developed, poverty-free and equitable nation are captured by its bold ‘Vision 2041’ – an aspirational strategic plan to transform the economy to reach High-Income Country (HIC) status by 2041 and achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals along the way.

Vision 2041 builds on Bangladesh’s remarkable journey towards mass digitization over the past 13 years, guided by its Digital Bangladesh. At the heart of this development journey lies a simple yet powerful idea: that creating shared prosperity isn’t possible unless administrative, financial, and political power is decentralised at the grassroots level. That is, unless all citizens are truly empowered.

The Aspire to Innovation (a2i), a special programme of the government’s Digital Bangladesh agenda supported by the UNDP, focuses on doing precisely this by improving quality, widening access and decentralising the delivery of public services. Anir Chowdhury, policy advisor of the a2i programme, joins us from Bangladesh to tell us more.

Speaker: Anir Chowdhury, a2i Program, Government of Bangladesh

 

Talk 3: What If We Loved Politicians?

Strong democracies need an effective civil service, quality politicians and a participatory population. Revitalizing governance so that it serves people and the planet will require strengthening all three parts of this “democracy flywheel”. The Apolitical Foundation has been asking, “what if we loved politicians?”, “what would that look like?”, and “what would it take?”.

In this talk, Apolitical Foundation CEO Lisa Witter explores links between politicians and bureaucracies and the future of their intertwined relationship. She draws on her 25 years in political training and experience as co-founder of public-servant learning platform Apolitical.co for an evidence-driven and thought-provoking presentation that will leave you believing that politics can be different.

Apolitical.co serves 160,000 public servants from more than 170 countries and was named one of the Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company in 2018. Lisa and her co-founder, Robyn Scott, received the Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award in 2020.

Speaker: Lisa Witter, Apolitical Foundation

 

Talk 4: Unlocking the Change For the Future We Want: New Economic Thinking

Our contemporary economic systems are creating crises rather than solving them. In order to effectively address huge issues such as climate change and growing inequality, economic systems need to be changed. Luckily there are multiple signs of change: with widespread calls for reform of international financial institutions and governments taking new roles in steering their economies through pandemics and geopolitical shocks, the window of economic system change is open. Further, there is a growing movement of actors spanning Europe building new economic policies and challenging mainstream economic views.

In this talk, Johannes Nuutinen will make a case for a broad economic transformation and showcase some of the organisations and individuals working to shift economic systems in Europe. He will highlight the key role governments and civil servants can take in ushering in new economic systems.

Speaker: Johannes Nuutinen, Demos Helsinki

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Giulio Quaggiotto

Head, Strategic Innovation / undp

Giulio Quaggiotto is the Head, Strategic Innovation, Regional Innovation Center, United Nations Development Programme. As Head of UNDP’s Regional Innovation Center for the Asia Pacific, he works with governments across the region to develop renewal capabilities and accelerate impact on complex development challenges. He is an MIT Research Associate with a focus on lead user innovation.

Prior to joining UNDP, he was the Director of Community at Climate KIC and an Innovation Advisor for the Prime Minister’s Office in the UAE. Giulio’s career includes stints at Nesta, WWF and the World Bank. He was also the manager of the Jakarta Lab of the UN Global Pulse, a flagship innovation initiative of the United Nations Secretary-General on big data for public policy.

His interests include portfolio approaches to innovation and incorporating grassroots innovations into national innovation systems. He is a regular speaker at international conferences on the intersection of social innovation, technology and international development.

Anir Chowdhury

a2i Programme / Policy Advisor

Anir Chowdhury is the Policy Advisor of the a2i Programmme of the ICT Division and the Cabinet Division of the Government of Bangladesh supported by the UNDP. In this capacity, he leads the formation of a whole-of-society innovation ecosystem in Bangladesh through massive technology deployment, extensive capacity development, integrated policy formulation, whole-of-government institutional reform, and an Innovation Fund. His work on innovation in public service has developed interesting and replicable models of service delivery decentralization, public-private partnerships, and transformation of a traditional bureaucracy into a forward-looking, citizen-centric service provider. He is a regular speaker in international conferences on public service innovation and reform, digital financial inclusion, data-driven policymaking, civil registration and digital identity management, SDGs, youth and community empowerment, educational transformation, public-private partnerships, and South-South Cooperation. He regularly writes in reputed national and international blogs, journals and publications.

Lisa Witter

CEO and Co-Founder/ Apolitical Foundation

Lisa Witter is co-founder of Apolitical, a global learning network for government, named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in the world. She co-founder CEO of the Apolitical Foundation, a not-for-profit founded by Apolitical to advance the revitalization of democracy by building better politics. The foundation’s keystone project, Apolitical Academy Global, helps prepare a new generation of transformational political leaders via a network of non-partisan political training academies. She’s a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, co-chairs the Forum’s Council on Agile Governance. She is a former public servant with deep experience in gender and behavioral science and has founded numerous political training academies over the last 25 years. She was awarded the 2020 Creative Bureaucracy Award and named a BMW Foundation Futurity Fellow in 2022. She loves wearing dresses, her childhood nickname was ‘Animal’ from the sports fields, and dreams of being a stand-up comedian (but might not be funny enough.)

Johannes Nuutinen

Lead/ Demos Helsinki

Johannes Nuutinen works at Demos Helsinki. He is accountable for the Untitled, an unlikely alliance of actors pushing for a comprehensive societal transformation.

Previously Johannes has led Demos Helsinki’s international portfolio, and he has been responsible for dozens of large scale transformation projects together with both private companies and progressive governments. Johannes is a seasoned speaker on economic change, and is a trusted advisor for foundations, corporations and governments throughout Europe.

Johannes’ expertise lies in new economic thought and ways of building progressive economic policy. He believes that a comprehensive economic shift requires coordinated action across countries, and through boardrooms and streets. His work is committed to making that happen.

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