Achieving Zero Bureaucracy – Is It Possible?

The UAE’s ‘zero bureaucracy’ initiative is sharply focused on transforming the experience of bureaucracy to improve opportunities for all. The country is exploring the simplest, fastest, easiest, and most efficient procedures with the aim of delivering impact for citizens and businesses. This also has the potential to create a positive feedback loop, as achieving this would improve the perception of public administrators, who are then seen less as controllers thwarting potential and rather as enablers who open out possibilities. This perception shift in turn enhances their lives.

Here we compare this approach to other initiatives such as Canada’s Policy Horizons work and the Accelerate Estonia initiative, which have similar missions as they too address wicked problems, to explore how new bureaucratic cultures are being developed across the word. How do you balance the risk/reward ratio of stepping into new horizons? Join this discussion to find out.