The Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2020

Open Government is a set of principles and cultural techniques to modernise and strengthen co-creation and trust in the relationship between governments and civil society. It’s driven by two main objectives: 1) ensuring interaction with society and trust in its “operating system”, the state institutions, and 2) monitoring the balancing…

For eight years, Christian Bason ran MindLab, the Danish government’s innovation agency. In an interview, the CEO of the Danish Design Centre tells us about his “opportunity to kick ass” as a public sector innovator, the power of design and human-centricity to transform government, and about storytelling as a way to…

We need clarity as to how research is communicated and how it is translated into widely understood policy that public administrators can describe to the widest audiences – the citizens. Only then will we build trust. Professionals take short cuts in explaining themselves and often they communicate in jargon –…

Die Komplexität des Informationsaustausches zwischen Polizei und Justiz ist gewaltig. Föderale Zusammenarbeit, unterschiedliche Geschwindigkeiten und Gewaltenteilung sind nur ein paar der Faktoren, die beim Informationsaustausch und der Kooperation von Polizei und Justiz mitgedacht werden müssen. Das Potential ist auch gewaltig, bedarf aber einer langsamen und kontrollierten Annäherung und ein mitnehmen…

In South Africa, the Presidential Employment Stimulus was launched in response to rising unemployment during the pandemic. In its largest programme, over 300,000 young people were employed as school assistants in over 22,000 schools. This has created jobs in every corner of the country. Teachers Assistants provide support in the…

How can small places be a window to the future cities? How to connect people to places and nature? How to increase participation through places? This session gives an insight on the creative thinking and methodology needed to create real change in an urban setting through public spaces. Inspiring and…

Art has often been overlooked as fuel for development. Considered as either decoration or a collectible luxury, art has been narrowly understood as a product of culture rather than as the dynamic process of making. If culture means only a legacy of shared sites and beliefs that bond communities, the…

Around the world cities have been experimenting with innovative governance instruments to support a better cooperation between governments and active citizens in addressing urban challenges collaboratively. From support mechanisms for civic initiatives, to participatory budgeting and direct democracy, European cities have been on the forefront of promoting co-creation between a…

In Zusammenarbeit mit der Webplattform „FragDenStaat – Portal für Informationsfreiheit“ haben wir bei Fraunhofer FOKUS das interaktive Werkzeug „Frag den Staat Analytics“ entwickelt, mit dem Statistiken über die vielen Anfragen der Bürgerinnen und Bürger nach Informationen des Staates einfach recherchiert und visualisiert werden können. Das Tool gibt unter anderem Antworten…