Hi,
I’m writing to invite you to the conference launching the Network for the Post Bureaucratic Age.
It explores current trends in social, political and technological change, and what this means for a new government. We have an array of first-class speakers and panelists, including David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party, Martha Lane Fox, the government’s digital inclusion champion, together with entrepreneurs and innovators from business, media, public services, campaigning, and government.
This isn’t just a showcase of new thinking, but includes active drafting of an innovations agenda and benchmarks for the next government (be it Labour or Conservative). It will seek to make progress towards a Freedom of Data Act. It launches a Network – conceived as a post-bureaucratic think tank working online and through events – to take these ideas forward. There will be a pre-conference briefing paper for participants from myself and Janan Ganesh (of The Economist).
If you would like to attend, please respond to RSVPtoPBA@yahoo.com
Spaces are strictly limited to please respond early.
Hope to get your involvement! All the best, Stephan
Event: Network for the Post-Bureaucratic Age
Date & Time: 9am to 6pm, Monday 22nd February 2010
Purpose: To set the agenda and benchmarks for a Post-Bureaucratic Government
Schedule:
9:00-10.00 Registration
10:00-10.15 Welcome and Introduction (Stephan Shakespeare, YouGov)
10.15-10:45 Keynote Address by The Rt Hon David Cameron MP
10-45-11:15 Coffee & Networking
11:15-12:45 Session 1: will focus on the themes of social, political and technological change, and what this means for a new government
Chair, Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman & Creative Director, Ogilvy Group)
Speakers: Bill Eggers (author of “If We Can Put A Man On The Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government”; “Government 2.0: Using Technology to Improve Education, Cut Red Tape, Reduce Gridlock, and Enhance Democracy”; “Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector”; Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Global Research Director, Deloitte)
Martha Lane Fox (Government Champion for Digital Inclusion, Co-founder lastminute.com and Antigone, a charitable fund)
Edward Wray (Chairman and Co-Founder, Betfair)
Kristian Segerstrale (CEO and Co-Founder, Playfish, Co-Founder Glu Mobile)
Sarah Beeny (Founder and CEO, MySingleFriend.com & Tepilo.com)
Eric Baker (Founder and CEO Viagogo)
Peter Bazalgette (TV Producer, Digital Investor, Chairman Sony Music TV)
William Heath (Founder MyDex, Ctrl-Shift, IdealGov blog)
12.45-1.45 Lunch & Networking
1.45-3:15 Session 2: Post-Bureaucratic Government and the ‘More-For-Less’ agenda: how we drive innovation through the public sector
Chair, Neil O’Brien (Director, PolicyExchange)
Speakers: Skip Stitt (former Senior Deputy Mayor and Chief Operating Officer for the City of Indianapolis; COO of ACS Inc, Washington DC)
Liam Maxwell (Cabinet Member for Performance, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Leading the Transparency Initiative and street-level Participatory Budget process)
Professor Mark McGurk (Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital Trust)
Toby Young (author of “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People”, now creating a new type of ‘free’ school where access to a good education is not based on income)
Jonathan Kestenbaum (CEO, NESTA)
Adrian Ringrose, (Chief Executive of Interserve Plc, Chairman of the CBI’s Public Services Strategy Board)
Martin Brookes (Chief Executive, New Philanthropy Capital)
3.15-3.45 Coffee & Networking
3.45-5:15 Session 3: Setting the Agenda and Benchmarks for a Post-Bureaucratic Government; towards a Freedom of Data Act
Chair, Stephan Shakespeare (YouGov)
Speakers: Heather Brooke (author and freedom-of-information activist who led the movement for the full disclosure of MP expenses)
Tom Steinberg (Founder of MySociety, TheyWorkForYou, FixMyStreet, WhatDoTheyKnow)
Matthew Elliot (founder, TaxPayer’s Alliance)
Peter Kellner (President, YouGov)
Peter Hoskin (Spectator Magazine)
Richard Allan (Director of Policy EU, Facebook; former LibDem MP)
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A conference like this should probably include the Metagovernment project, shouldn’t it? Or at least some of its member projects: http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Main_Page
Certainly – whom do you have in mind?
Ali
I do not see a location for the conference, but I take it is in the UK? Metagovernment has some members from there, but more active members nearby are in Portugal and Germany. Perhaps Dr. Speroni? http://publications.pietrosperoni.it/
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