Dr Anne Marie Thake, Head of Public Policy, FEMA, attended the final EU event entitled 'The Future of Government 2030+ - A Citizen Centric Perspective on New Government Models.' This was organised last month by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Brussels.
The objective was to explore the emerging societal challenges, analyse trends in a rapidly changing digital world and launch an EU-wide debate on the possible future government models. The project’s approach was to combine citizen engagement, foresight and design while being rooted in recent literature from the field of digital politics and media. The future perspective looked at possible societal, technological and economic changes to identify enablers for new forms of governments from 2030+ onwards. Four scenarios were created and are to be used as tools for reflection, to explore new possibilities and challenges preconceived ideas about government today. The project shows the need for traditional roles of government and public administration to adjust to emerging and future needs of societies.
The objective was to explore the emerging societal challenges, analyse trends in a rapidly changing digital world and launch an EU-wide debate on the possible future government models. The project’s approach was to combine citizen engagement, foresight and design while being rooted in recent literature from the field of digital politics and media. The future perspective looked at possible societal, technological and economic changes to identify enablers for new forms of governments from 2030+ onwards. Four scenarios were created and are to be used as tools for reflection, to explore new possibilities and challenges preconceived ideas about government today. The project shows the need for traditional roles of government and public administration to adjust to emerging and future needs of societies.
150 EU citizens, including Civil Society organisation, think tanks, public sector and business representatives participated in the creation of future scenarios and concepts. 6 EU States namely Malta, Poland, Stockholm, Austria, Spain and Ireland participated in this project