The largest festival for administrative innovation comes to an end
The largest Festival for administrative innovation comes to an end after five days with new records: 18,000 visitors from 94 countries, 150 sessions, 400 speakers. Next festival will take place from 30 May to 3 June, 2022.
Berlin, 20 September, 2021. The fourth Creative Bureaucracy Festival comes to an end with new records: 18,000 creative minds and administrative visionaries from 94 countries participated in this year's Festival. The comprehensive Festival programme included 150 digital sessions and over 400 international speakers.
"The Creative Bureaucracy Festival is not only a forum for the best ideas for bureaucracy, but has also become an engine for making those ideas a reality," says Festival President Charles Landry. "After a year of pressure and new challenges, the festival was again the place where bureaucracy innovators could share ideas and get the recognition they deserve."
Leading by example in administrative innovation were the three Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award winners: the Finnish government and Demos Helsinki received the award for the Steering 2020 initiative and its Humble Government approach, which bases innovation processes on continuous review and ongoing testing. Also honored was Hamdan Abdul Majeed, executive director of the nonprofit Think City, which reversed the decline of Malaysia's George Town. Tiaji Sio, founder of the diversity network Diplomats of Color received the award for being the driving force behind the anti-racism discourse in the German Foreign Service.
Festival participants discussed the challenges and perspectives for the public sector in some 150 English- and German-language digital contributions featuring some 400 speakers. Topics ranged from fundamental questions about the aspirations and strength of the state (e.g., "humble government" or social sustainability) to the administration's ability to act in extraordinary situations (e.g., crisis resilience) to concrete aspects of current work in policy implementation (e.g., procurement or cybersecurity). All sessions are available in the media library on the Festival website: creativebureaucracy.org/en/library.
The next Creative Bureaucracy Festival will take place from 30 May to 3 June, 2022.
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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
