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Burgess COMMENTARY |
Nine Lessons for Bridging the Gap between Cities and Citizens Recently, the lack of economic and social opportunities in many urban areas have triggered that the urban poor express a greater demand for a voice in local decision-making that affect their lives. An increasing number of city governments are realizing that open and responsive public institutions are imperative to achieving better and more sustained development results. Important questions however remain: What is the impact of open government approaches to improving public services to poor communities? What are some examples of where the emerging Open Government approach has made a difference in the lives of the urban poor? These are some of the questions which were discussed during a high-level panel on Cities and Citizens: Game Changers for Inclusive Development hosted last week during the Annual Meetings. At the center of the discussion was how to move towards collaborative governance model that is based on a relationship of trust between citizens, civil society and local policy makers. Moving towards a citizen-centered model of government is critical for achieving better results. But what does this mean in praxis? What are some of the bottlenecks and pitfalls of such an approach? Here are nine lessons learned from our work on Open Government and Citizen Engagement programs around the world.
These are just some early lessons we have learned. Many questions remain open on how to foster collaborative governance models and how to promote inclusive institutions that can effectively respond to the needs of citizens What do you think? Tell us in the comments. Comments Soren thanks for posting this SUBMITTED BY TONY ROBERTS ON WED, 10/22/2014 - 06:28 Soren thanks for posting this sythesis of early lessons learnt. Overall takeaway = Technology nor Openness is in itself is not transformative and requires infomediaries to build citizens' capacity and intent to enable effective use of Open Gov Data. My interpretation = The missing ingedient for citizen-led transformational change is not data or tech but the critical capabilities of the urban poor, youth and minorities to identify their own interests plus the informational capabilities to make effective use of ICT in securing them. |
SUBMITTED BY SOREN GIGLER
ON FRI, 10/17/2014 |
The text being discussed is available at http://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/nine-lessons-bridging-gap-between-cities-and-citizens |
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