This is an experiment inspired by the OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP EUROPEAN LEADERS’ FORUM held in Milan on 5 FEBRUARY 2018.

For this experiment, we have leveraged the Forum’s YouTube videos from the morning Fishbowl Sessions facilitated by Brad Meyer.

With Interaction Technologies Ltd, we have been;

1.         creating a library of text-searchable videos from the Milan fishbowl sessions,

2.         searching the library for insights specifically relevant to the Georgia agenda and

3.         re-presenting these insights in a concise, source-acknowledged and linked context.

Please note: THIS IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS (version release date: 10 April 2018)

For feedback and queries regarding this experiment, PLEASE EMAIL: bradmeyer@collaboration.co.uk

 

Insights from Government Ministers, Civil Society Organisations and Other Stakeholders

Gleaned from the European Open Government Leaders’ Forum in Milan 5 February 2018

GENERAL OPEN GOVERNMENT ASPIRATIONS

TRANSPARENCY

Accountability

Responsiveness

THEMATIC TRACKS FOR TIBLISI SUMMIT IN JULY 17 – 19 2018

Civic Engagement

Anti-Corruption

Public Service Delivery

Open Track

TRANSPARENCY GOALS

TRANSPARENCY CHALLENGES

TRANSPARENCY BEST PRACTICES

Maurice from the Slovak Republic speaks about opening the policymaking process up to citizens. 

 

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Mari KIVINIEMI, OECD Deputy Secretary General speaks about how with rising fake news and disenchantment of voters with politics, increased transparency of government has potential to strengthen the credibility of politicians.

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about unlocking a wealth of knowledge from which to run other innovations by openning up to citizen responses through effective knowledge capture and sharing on policy issues.

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An audience member speaks about the meaning of participation and that we need something to make information really useful, and to make administrations comparable.

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An audience member speaks about the meaning of participation and that we need a concrete tool to make the information syntactic, like an index.

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Maurice from the Slovak Republic speaks about opening the policymaking process up to citizens. 

 

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Mari KIVINIEMI, OECD Deputy Secretary General speaks about how with rising fake news and disenchantment of voters with politics, increased transparency of government has potential to strengthen the credibility of politicians.

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about unlocking a wealth of knowledge from which to run other innovations by openning up to citizen responses through effective knowledge capture and sharing on policy issues.

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An audience member speaks about the meaning of participation and that we need something to make information really useful, and to make administrations comparable.

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An audience member speaks about the meaning of participation and that we need a concrete tool to make the information syntactic, like an index.

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Anthony ZACHARZEWSKI, President of The Democratic Society speaks about the capacity of citizens to use information because transparency is pointless if it isn’t used.

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An audience member speaks about the meaning of participation and how not many people other than experts will spend lots of time reading information that politicians make available.

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Anthony ZACHARZEWSKI, President of The Democratic Society speaks about the capacity of citizens to use information because transparency is pointless if it isn’t used.

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An audience member speaks about the meaning of participation and how not many people other than experts will spend lots of time reading information that politicians make available.

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Francis from the UK speaks about the results of publishing how well government projects are going.

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Mari KIVINIEMI, OECD Deputy Secretary General speaks about how 89% of OECD countries have understood the link between transparency and trust.

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about enabling knowledge capture and sharing across a range of currently separate policy making departments.

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Mari KIVINIEMI, OECD Deputy Secretary General speaks about adoption of the first internationally recognised legal instrument in participation by the OECD.

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Mari KIVINIEMI, OECD Deputy Secretary General speaks about how for open government to work, it must be at the heart of every public policy.

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Andrea SERVIDA, Head of Unit, e-Government & Trust, European Commission speaks about how digital is the key to transparency in government.

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Francis from the UK speaks about the results of publishing how well government projects are going.

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Mari KIVINIEMI, OECD Deputy Secretary General speaks about how 89% of OECD countries have understood the link between transparency and trust.

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about enabling knowledge capture and sharing across a range of currently separate policy making departments.

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Mari KIVINIEMI, OECD Deputy Secretary General speaks about adoption of the first internationally recognised legal instrument in participation by the OECD.

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Mari KIVINIEMI, OECD Deputy Secretary General speaks about how for open government to work, it must be at the heart of every public policy.

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Andrea SERVIDA, Head of Unit, e-Government & Trust, European Commission speaks about how digital is the key to transparency in government.

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OPEN GOVERNMENT ASPIRATIONS

Transparency

ACCOUNTABILITY

Responsiveness

THEMATIC TRACKS FOR TIBLISI SUMMIT IN JULY 17 – 19 2018

Civic Engagement

Anti-Corruption

Public Service Delivery

Open Track

ACCOUNTABILITY GOALS

ACCOUNTABILITY CHALLENGES

ACCOUNTABILITY BEST PRACTICES

    

    

Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about helping citizens with accountability through effective knowledge capture and sharing with regards to policy issues.

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Ardalan SHEKARABI, Minister for Public Administration, Sweden speaks about how direct access of public documents and information is the only way to keep governments and politicians accountable.

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Andrea SERVIDA, Head of Unit, e-Government & Trust, European Commission speaks about how digital is the key to accountability in government.

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Mari KIVINIEMI, OECD Deputy Secretary General speaks about how some countries are moving towards an open state.

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OPEN GOVERNMENT ASPIRATIONS

Transparency

Accountability

RESPONSIVENESS

THEMATIC TRACKS FOR TIBLISI SUMMIT IN JULY 17 – 19 2018

Civic Engagement

Anti-Corruption

Public Service Delivery

Open Track

RESPONSIVENESS GOALS

RESPONSIVENESS CHALLENGES

RESPONSIVENESS BEST PRACTICES

Sanjay PRADHAN, CEO of Open Government Partnership speaks about being more inclusive through participation

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Pauline from the UK speaks about building participation into civil servants’ DNA (not just training them on requirements)

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Tim HUGHES, Director of Involve speaks about the Irish Citizens Assembly and Brexit with regards to re-connecting members of the public with each other

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Patrick O’DONOVAN TD, Minister of State for Public Procurement, Open Government and eGovernment, Ireland  speaks about how when people feel things are going well in government, they’re less inclined to get involved but that this is actually when their involvement is needed.

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Sanjay PRADHAN, CEO of Open Government Partnership speaks about the Rahvakogu platform in Estonia for citizens to amend political party laws.

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Tiago ANTUNES, Secretary of State of the Council of Ministers, Portugal speaks about the world’s first national participatory budget

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An audience member speaks about how building new tools/projects to get people to participate is not necessary as the infrastructure is already in place.

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An audience member speaks about the importance of educating citizens in building participation.

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Teyla from Estonia speaks about going beyond the fine tuning of representative democracy to focus on common goals such as transparency and accountability.

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Ana from Romania speaks about how we need to join forces to achieve a more successful outcome with participation .

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about how we can stream meetings but we need to then actually access, query and add this information to a body of knowledge already on open government.

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Sanjay PRADHAN, CEO of Open Government Partnership speaks about Germany’s migrant integration.

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OPEN GOVERNMENT ASPIRATIONS

Transparency

Accountability

Responsiveness

THEMATIC TRACKS FOR TIBLISI SUMMIT IN JULY 17 – 19 2018

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Anti-Corruption

Public Service Delivery

Open Track

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT GOALS

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT CHALLENGES

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES

Francesco from Italy speaks about the role of intermediate bodies in civil society in connecting citizens to government.

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Mounir MAHJOUBI, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, France speaks about how we are trying to achieve autonomy, empowerment and access to knowledge for citizens through participation.

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Stephan from Austria speaks about showing that you can be trusted rather than demanding trust from citizens.

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Anthony ZACHARZEWSKI, President of The Democratic Society speaks about the future of participation being built through motivation, opportunity and capacity on the part of both government and citizens.

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An audience member speaks about the meaning of participation and that participation is a tool, not a goal.

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Anthony ZACHARZEWSKI, President of The Democratic Society speaks about how the purpose of participation is to broaden the number of voices that government hears from.

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Anthony ZACHARZEWSKI, President of The Democratic Society speaks about the need for a cultural change; a change in behaviour.

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Daniel FREUND, Transparency International EU speaks about how bad participation leads to more distrust, disenchantment and frustration on the part of citizens.

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An attaché from Bulgaria speaks about how attacking CSOs for making critical comments is unhelpful and missing the value embedded within those comments

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Ola from Sweden speaks about inclusion of all people in participation and why digitalising government is not the solution.

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Mounir MAHJOUBI, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, France speaks about how 20% of people in France don’t know how to participate digitally and that by not tackling the issue of inclusion, you are missing 1 in 5 of your citizens.

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Jari PARTANEN, State Secretary of the Government of Finland speaks about participation and the need to be a shift from consultation to a broader civic dialogue.

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Jari PARTANEN, State Secretary of the Government of Finland speaks about how if we use language  that is not clear or about government functions in complicated ways, we cannot expect people to participate.

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Jari PARTANEN, State Secretary of the Government of Finland speaks about how wicked problems do not respect boundaries and that finding solutions requires global participation.

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Patrick O’DONOVAN TD, Minister of State for Public Procurement, Open Government and eGovernment, Ireland speaks about the legitimacy of actors in participation.

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Klaus VITT, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, Germany  speaks about managing the expectations of citizens.

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Helen DARBISHIRE, Access Info Europe  speaks about how we don’t have the information we need to participate in a timely fashion.

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Ana BIRCHALL, Vice Prime Minister for Romania’s Strategic Partnerships’ Implementation, Romania speaks about the need to regain the trust of citizens on several levels.

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Helen DARBISHIRE, Access Info Europe  speaks about populist culture and the fear of bad participation.

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Sanjay PRADHAN, CEO of Open Government Partnership speaks about technological advancement and changing expectations.

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Tiago ANTUNES, Secretary of State of the Council of Ministers, Portugal speaks about the world’s first national participatory budget.

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Daniel FREUND, Transparency International EU speaks about EU participation practices.

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Daniel FREUND, Transparency International EU speaks about what constitutes strong participation.

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Francesco of Italy speaks about thinking of participation as an investment, rather than a charitable act.

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Pauline from the UK speaks about tech being a main entry point for many but not for all people.

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Mounir MAHJOUBI, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, France speaks about cultivating a sharing attitude at all levels including public servants

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Sam VAN DER STAAK, IDEA speaks about how both the formal and informal forms of participation are widening and deepening.

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Sam VAN DER STAAK, IDEA speaks about the role of digital technology in participation and lessons learned from its implementation.

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Angela CONSTANCE, Cabinet Secretary for communities, social security and   equalities, Scotland, UK speaks about a renewed appetite for citizen engagement in Scotland.

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Angela CONSTANCE, Cabinet Secretary for communities, social security and equalities, Scotland, UK speaks about how 5 million invested in participatory budgeting.

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Angela CONSTANCE, Cabinet Secretary for communities, social security and  equalities, Scotland, UK speaks about how nearly 2,500 were recruited for an experience panel to help shape policy.

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Mounir MAHJOUBI, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, France speaks about how 3 citizen consultations opened in France with clear laws on mobility, food regulation, transformation of public action.

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Sanjay PRADHAN, CEO of Open Government Partnership speaks about three frontiers of participation.

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Sanjay PRADHAN, CEO of Open Government Partnership speaks about the need to involve marginalised youth to mitigate the risk of radicalisation.

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Sanjay PRADHAN, CEO of Open Government Partnership speaks about deliberative participation; e.g. Canada’s open dialogue.

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OPEN GOVERNMENT ASPIRATIONS

Transparency

Accountability

Responsiveness

THEMATIC TRACKS FOR TIBLISI SUMMIT IN JULY 17 – 19 2018

Civic Engagement

ANTI-CORRUPTION

Public Service Delivery

Open Track

ANTI-CORRUPTION GOALS

ANTI-CORRUPTION CHALLENGES

ANTI-CORRUPTION BEST PRACTICES

Francesco from Italy speaks about participation within the context of preventing corruption

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Daniel from Germany speaks about the legislative process becoming a business for professionals

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Patrick O’DONOVAN TD, Minister of State for Public Procurement, Open Government and eGovernment, Ireland speaks about the legitimacy of actors in participation.

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Klaus VITT, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, Germany  speaks about an online platform for participation requires a high level of security.

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OPEN GOVERNMENT ASPIRATIONS

Transparency

Accountability

Responsiveness

THEMATIC TRACKS FOR TIBLISI SUMMIT IN JULY 17 – 19 2018

Civic Engagement

Anti-Corruption

PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY

Open Track

PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY GOALS

PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY CHALLENGES

PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY BEST PRACTICES

Sanjay of OGP speaks about being more inclusive through participation

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Pauline from the UK speaks about building participation into civil servants’ DNA (not just training them on requirements)

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Zuzana WIENK, Fair Play Alliance and OGP SC member speaks about how people need to feel not only involved but respected and valued for their contributions.

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Maurice from Slovak Republic speaks about the EU missing targets that were not developed through participation

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Tim HUGHES, Director of Involve speaks about the Irish Citizens Assembly and Brexit with regards to re-connecting members of the public with each other

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Tiago ANTUNES, Secretary of State of the Council of Ministers, Portugal speaks about legitimising citizens’ projects

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Sanjay PRADHAN, CEO of Open Government Partnership speaks about the Rahvakogu platform in Estonia for citizens to amend political party laws

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Angela CONSTANCE, Cabinet Secretary for communities, social security and equalities, Scotland, UK speaks about the importance of connecting communities with each other

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Angela CONSTANCE, Cabinet Secretary for communities, social security and equalities, Scotland, UK speaks about small scale projects

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Rumyana BACHVAROVA, Chief of Cabinet, Council of Ministers, Bulgaria speaks about young people, skills in new technologies, and their importance in helping the government make the right proposals.

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Rumyana BACHVAROVA, Chief of Cabinet, Council of Ministers, Bulgaria speaks about the importance of investing in young people.

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Sandra from Grecia speaks about how citizens can help with Implementing policy.

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Ana BIRCHALL, Vice Prime Minister for Romania’s Strategic Partnerships’ Implementation, Romania speaks about equal opportunity law, personal insolvency law, and the Istanbul convention.

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about how we can stream meetings but can we actually access, query and add this information to a body of knowledge already on open government?

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about knowledge sharing on sensitive topics for the Ireland Citizen Assembly.

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OPEN GOVERNMENT ASPIRATIONS

Transparency

Accountability

Responsiveness

THEMATIC TRACKS FOR TIBLISI SUMMIT IN JULY 17 – 19 2018

Civic Engagement

Anti-Corruption

Public Service Delivery

OPEN TRACK

OPEN TRACK GOALS

OPEN TRACK CHALLENGES

OPEN TRACK BEST PRACTICES

Teyla from Estonia speaks about dropping the distinctions between government and civil society to pursue the common goal.

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about mapping out the range of opinion and complexity on the issue by creating an open body of public knowledge on policy issues.

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Thea TSULUKIANI, Minister of Justice, Georgia and Chair of OGP speaks about welcoming more active engagement from European leaders.

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Klaus VITT, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, Germany  speaks about how scientific algorithms for participation will become more objective.

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about losing the knowledge shared during consultations.

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Ardalan SHEKARABI, Minister for Public Administration, Sweden speaks about how trust in government is challenged by trolls as news travels like the speed of light and is trapped or created in social media bubbles.

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Ardalan SHEKARABI, Minister for Public Administration, Sweden speaks about how speaking through to power is sometimes not possible without direct access to reliable sources of public information.

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Ardalan SHEKARABI, Minister for Public Administration, Sweden speaks about how for trust in government, we must continue consolidating the  digital freedom of information.

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Zuzana WIENK of Fair Play Alliance and OGP SC speaks about the ultimate challenge with participation being the declining trust and the associated risk of radicalisation.

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Zuzana WIENK, Fair Play Alliance and OGP SC member speaks about how participation is not a popularity contest and shouldn’t end up as a marketing tool.

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Sanjay PRADHAN, CEO of Open Government Partnership speaks about arising distrust in countries with traditional consultation mechanisms, which can be captured by special interests.

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Sanjay PRADHAN, CEO of Open Government Partnership speaks about anti-establishment movements.

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about the wealth of knowledge to capture and use for other innovations 

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Vanessa LISTON, CiviQ speaks about ways of transcribing meetings to add to a body of knowledge that the public can query

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Thea TSULUKIANI, Minister of Justice, Georgia and Chair of OGP speaks about Co-chair Mukalami Dimba generating innovation in public service delivery.

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Rumyana BACHVAROVA, Chief of Cabinet, Council of Ministers, Bulgaria speaks about how in the Bulgarian presidency, there’s a large focus on the future skills needed by young people, to keep up with the pace of technological change.

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Zuzana WIENK, Fair Play Alliance and OGP SC member speaks about an important year for OGP because 76 national and subnational action plans will be delivered.

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A member of the audience speaks about how making good qualitative decisions is not always the same as establishing a democratic decision process.

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Thea TSULUKIANI, Minister of Justice, Georgia and Chair of OGP speaks about co creation and peer learning in Georgia.

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