I am flattered to be invited to give a Lectio Magistralis at Forum PA on May 19th, the main Italian event on public innovation.
I am actually slightly ashamed, because of the other people invited to give the “Lectio” are Amartya Sen (yes, you read well) and Irene Tinagli, an Italian scholar who collaborated with Richard Florida.
Because it’s important, I would like to prepare it well and make sure that I meet the expectations of the people who will be there. So I thought: let’s co-design it! I will write my line of thinking, and I ask you to provide feedback and comments (whether you will actually be there or not).
At the moment, the things I would like to talk about are:
- gov20 is part of a wider change, related to ex-post world: complex/liquid society, serendipity, design thinking
- there are excessive expectations about participation: we have always assume people don’t want to participate. Gov20 is very important and impactful but not because we crowdsource government – we augment it
- what are concrete actions that we can do: working on skills; the example of prizes such as INCA, other inspiring examples from Obama administration
- what concrete actions government should avoid: using robot.txt, regulating public internet access…
What else should I focus on?
That is such a COOOL idea!!
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I will do my best to give you some good feedback until tomorrow
Good point Maria, didnt put a deadline. This is an open process, that will accompany the preparation from today to May 19th.
I will also add some other tools along the way.
Also, forgot to say: the speech will be 2-hours long! Quite a challenge not to be boring. I have to add examples, quotes, real stories, metaphors.
David, I recently took part in a focus group with some of the Italians most deeply involved in the topic. Tito asked the following question: none of this is new, we all agree on most of it. So why does it not happen?
So, I would like you to address the question of why it’s not happening; and is there any point in suggesting things to do that look very reasonable but don’t seem to be able to get outside little sandboxes.
You once said that web2 does not require cultural change, it creates it. And I agree. But I think we need to look deeper into what the conditions are for the propagation of cultural change.
Great stuff Alberto. I agree. I would refer in part to Lessig article on limits to trasnparency; in part to obvious stuff on civic culture – and how to create it.
Fits perfectly with my perception on the normative approach: it’s we the policy wonk talking to ourselves and complaining that the world is not like us. We should assume the facts and step ahead of this.
Other thoughts: introducing the game dimension into civic participation. Generating civic culture through social dynamics.
Grazie!
Is transparency like privacy? Everybody talks about it but nobody cares about it in practice? A friend of mine is a professor at CMU and conducted a project in which he demonstrate that privacy is often valued less than 2$..
David, my post on “Policy by gaming” is online:
http://www.cottica.net/2010/04/19/policy-by-gaming-evoke-e-altre-storieand-other-stories-verbose/