Creative Bureaucracy Festival awards six creative administrative ideas

Berlin, 01.04.2022. Marriage via video identification, agile working in the ministry and innovation diplomacy for the climate of the future - the audience of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival selected the best ideas in public administration at the digital Kick-Off Day on 24 March 2022. Around 1,500 festival guests from over 50 countries voted. The festival day was opened by Federal CIO Markus Richter. On 2 June 2022, the winning teams will present their ideas on the live stage in Berlin. Over 1,000 administrative innovators and international thought leaders are expected to attend. Ticket sales and more information on over 50 German and international sessions at creativebureaucracy.org/festival
 
The six best German-language and international programme contributions were selected at the Digital Kick-Off Day on 24 March 2022. "The winning teams show what an impressive spirit of experimentation there is in the offices," says Festival President Charles Landry.
 
The agile coaches at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs demonstrate how rethinking processes unleashes creativity. The Bundeswehr (Federal Defense Forces of Germany) in-house digital learning platform "Link and Learn" enables collaborative knowledge management and community building. And the Wiesbaden registry office has used the pandemic to take an innovative leap: couples can register for marriage with video identification and sign digitally.
 
The importance of innovative spirit and agile, project-oriented work was made clear by State Secretary and Federal CIO Markus Richter in a conversation with PD Executive Board member Peter-Roman Persch. The main festival partner PD presented in its sessions what opportunities GovTech holds, how public construction projects benefit from cooperation and how municipalities achieve digitisation successes together.
 
In the international programme, the audience was fascinated by the three winning sessions: a team from the Mexican state of Jalisco showed how digitalisation can make the process obtaining public permits transparent and fight corruption. Zero Waste Malaysia offers an accessible social initiative for a sustainable lifestyle with its guidebook for more sustainability in everyday life. The CivTech Alliance, consisting of Scotland, South Australia, Brazil, and Germany, demonstrates with its COP26 Global Scale-Up programme how governments can successfully promote climate technologies.
 
Over 30 sessions of the Digital Kick-Off Day can be viewed free of charge in the festival Media Library.
 
After two years of Covid pandemic, the festival will return to its original format as a presence event in Berlin on 2 June 2022. Tickets will be sold via the festival homepage creativebureaucracy.org/festival. The festival will be opened by the head of the Federal Chancellery, Wolfgang Schmidt. Together with the main festival partner PD and other institutions, more than 50 German and English-language keynotes, panel discussions, interactive workshops and performances will be presented. The main topics range from Big Data, empowerment and placemaking to innovative forms of collaboration and digital transformation. "The Digital Kick-Off Day was an impressive start. With the face-to-face event on 2 June in Berlin, the festival will live up to its international reputation of providing a stage for all creative minds who want to help shape a modern and future-oriented administration," says PD Managing Director Claus Wechselmann.
 
The event is supported by the main festival partners Falling Walls Foundation and PD - Consultants to the Public Sector, as well as numerous other organisations, including the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs, the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, the Hertie Foundation, the German Association for Project Management, the Federal Foreign Office and the Senate Chancellery Berlin.

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ABOUT THE CREATIVE BUREAUCRACY FESTIVAL
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival shines a spotlight on creative solutions to a wide variety of community issues within administration, bringing them center-stage and fostering a dialogue among the individuals and minds behind them. According to its president Charles Landry, the festival stands for a change from a "No, because" culture to a "Yes, if" culture that inspires people to try new things. The festival also aims to strengthen the reputation of the administration and appeal to imaginative young talents. creativebureaucracy.org 

ABOUT THE FALLING WALLS FOUNDATION
Since 2009, the non-profit Falling Walls Foundation has been bringing together the most renowned and influential thought leaders from around the world. Nobel Prize winners, start-ups, young scientific talents, research companies, culture, politics and the media discuss the question: "Which are the next walls to fall in science and society?". The Falling Walls Foundation's programmes build bridges be-tween science and society and convey enthusiasm for the work of scientists in all disciplines.​​​​​​​falling-walls.com

ABOUT PD – ADVISOR TO THE PUBLIC SECTOR
As a partner to the public sector, PD combines economic and strategic expertise with in-depth knowledge of the special processes and structures of public sector clients. On this basis, PD offers consulting and management services on all aspects of modern administration with a team of around 1,100 employees. Clients are exclusively federal, state and local authorities as well as other public bodies and institutions, as PD is itself 100 per cent publicly owned as an in-house consultancy​​​​​​​. pd-g.de