public officials! challenge citizens to real co-operation
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Why the people-public-private partnershis is so hard and how to overcome the problems. The short way. Please debate!TRANSCRIPT
Public servant:
Challenge citizens to real co-operation
Build democracy of doing, citizen-driven solutions and do your job easier
– with one easy solution.
Joukkoenkeli Osakeyhtiö 20.3.2014. Please copy and distribute freely!
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Background of MyWorldNeeds.us
A sincere want to build a functioning co-creation platform for the public sector.
Learning and development via trial and error.
Endless interviews with public servants, politicians and citizen activists.
The main focus of the solution: the needs of the public servant.
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Myworldneeds.us is developed by area branding specialists at www.both.fi
”Real experience is built with participation”
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Lesson 1:You can’t bypass the citizen
(any longer)Traditional instruments of citizens getting
heard cost money, are uninclusive and cause bad will.
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Stage B: The small team develops the best solution they can think of and give it to the citizens to be commented/used
ABlack boxsolution
Stage A: A public servant gets a commission of developing a new service or product for the citizens. The small team consists of experts.
LEssON 1: YOu CAN’T BYPAss ThE CiT izEN (ANY LONgER)
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ABlack box-
solution
Stage D: The decision makers back off, and even good projects are killed. All work is in vain. Everybody is unhappy.
Stage C: The citizens don’t care about the solution –or dislike it, a lot. it’s hard to know in advance. A citizen movement rises causing bad reputation.
LEssON 1: YOu CAN’T BYPAss ThE CiT izEN (ANY LONgER)
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A case with a cost 1: A retired expert of his/her field complains about zoning and keeps the construction
from being started – for months.
A case with a cost 2: People just don’t show up to be heard, but still take the liberty of complaining
about the results.Lessons learned from our interviews:
Traditional ways of citizen participation just don’t cut it any more.
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Existing ways to avoid the ’black box’ are either slow, unrepresentative or expensive:
Letters: Work for small groups Workshops: good, need facilitating
Regulated meetings with citizens: – unrepresen-tative partakers, ”participation from hell”
Facebook etc: ”Again a new publicity chore!” Working with traditional ngo’s: They are going
down, and are bureaucratic and slow. A note in the paper/city hall: Does not reach the
real target audience.
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Lesson 2: ”The barrel of hopes empties
only on the desk of the public servant”
Current models of citizen participation are too troublesome to the public servant.
it is a bottleneck to citizen-driven solutions.
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The barrel of hopes:Requirements and demands (initiatives)
Companis Legislation
Public servant
Politicians Citizens
LEssON 2: ThE BARREL OF hOPEs EMPTiEs ONLY ON ThE DEsk OF ThE PuBLiC sERvANT
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The barrel of hopes:Requirements and demands (initiatives)
Companies Legislation
Public servant
Politicians Citizens
ARisiNg LEvELOF DEMAND
A LACk OF
REsOuRCEs
LEssON 2: ThE BARREL OF hOPEs EMPTiEs ONLY ON ThE DEsk OF ThE PuBLiC sERvANT
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The challenge between the public and the people
1. The citizen’s role of taking part is even at its best to ideate – and ask the city public servant
for the execution.
2. The city does not have money nor the employees to make it all happen.
3. The demand of participation and citizen- driven solutions grow all the time.
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Lesson 3: ”The citizen participation
discourse is in wrong hands”For good co-operation you need at least two
willing partners
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grass-roots citizen participation rises – and confuses the legally responsible public officials. Case Rovaniemi, Finland: kids built a skating park of their own on city grounds. The city demolished it, since it was unauthorized, and the city would have been liable if so-meone had been hurt. This lead into bad publicity, bad feelings and a loss of money if the city now feels the urge to build an official skating park.
LEssON 3:ThE CiT izEN PARTiCiPATiON DisCOuRsE is iN WRONg hANDs
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”I vote, thereforeI can demand” ”I set the direction,
and therefore canbe an idealist” Responsibility +
”How do I payfor this all?” Responsibility +
”I don’t want to
make mistakes”The citizen
The politician
The deciding public servant
The executing public servant
How the demand
advances
LEssON 3:ThE CiT izEN PARTiCiPATiON DisCOuRsE is iN WRONg hANDs
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Responsibility +”I don’t want to
make mistakes”
The executing public servant
LEssON 3:ThE CiT izEN PARTiCiPATiON DisCOuRsE is iN WRONg hANDs
The needs of the executing public servant need to be addressed for functioning citizen participation.
The problem: Old ways don’t work
but new ones are scaring.
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The question of the day:how much of positive citizen activity
goes to waste?
What if the retired expert complaining about zoning could have been tied in the process in the
beginning, not the end?
What if the Rovaniemi local grocery store would have volunteered to have the skating park
on their lot and the city would have agreed to trasfer it over?
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The solution: Public official, grab the initiative to your own
hands. Reverse the barrel of hopes. Challenge citizens and companies to team with
you in developing common well-being.
19Public servant
The active citizen
volunteersto do a share
The companyshows corporate
responsibility.
Everybody wins trust
and respect unexpected resources
people, private public
partnership
sOLuTiON: REvERsE ThE BARREL OF hOPEs, BuiLD DEMOCRACY OF DOiNg.
Requirements and possibilities
Companiy Politician Citizen
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Publicservant
Politician
A co-createdcitizen-driven
solution
Citizen Citizen
Citizen
Companies
sOLuTiON: REPLACE ThE BLACk BOx WiTh iTERATivE DEsigN AND EARLY iNCLusiON OF CiT izENs AND COMPANiEs
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Case: hyvinkää CO2-challenge
The quest: To drop the city CO2- emissions 5% annually for the next 8 years. Only 10% of emissions are controlled by the city, 40% by households and 40% by companies. A succesfull project calls for strong co-operation of all.
The mission: To get everybody involved.
The solution: The mayor of the city challen-ged citizens, all employees of the city and companies to ideate and execute solutions via MyWorldNeeds.us
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it’s as easy as ABC!set up your own challenge
in a matter of minutes.
Create your own challenge here
www.MyWorldNeeds.us
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1Set a clear
mission: what do you need
help with?
2Ideate and let others
ideate 3Take best ideas
under construction or let others
execute them
4Keep solutions
in order with our unique open
board
5Share your
challenge with email, social media or by
embedding it to your traditional site.
YOuR DEsk kEEPs YOuR ChALLENgE iN ORDER
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Tule mukaan Hyvinkään ilmastotalkoisiin!
Onko sinulla hyvä idea siitä, miten me Hyvinkäällä voisimme säästää energiaa?
Olisitko valmis jakamaan omaa osaamistasi, jotta jonkun toisen idea voisi toteutua?
Olisitko valmis perustamaan oman kimppakyytiringin, tavaranvaihtotapahtuman,
tuulivoimahankkeen tai muun energiansäästöprojektin, johon muut voisivat liittyä?
☞ Jaa oma energiansäästöideasi netissä☞ Auta muiden ideat lentoon omalla osaamisellasi☞ Käynnistä oma projektisi ja nappaa naapurit mukaan
☞ Lisätietoa ja osallistuminen: www.hyvinkaa.fiTämän haasteen tavoitteena on laskea Hyvinkään energian kulutusta ja hiilijalanjälkeä sekä kaupungin omissa toiminnoissa, yrityksissä että kotitalouksissa. Haaste on osoitettu kaupungin koko henkilöstölle, kaikille
kaupunkilaisille ja yrityksille. Vs. kaupunginjohtaja Jyr ki
Mattila haastaa eri alojen osaajat yhteisiin talkoisiin tässä
tärkeässä hankkeessa.Voit osallistua talkoisiin vaikka omalta kotisohvaltasi.
Pienimmillään voit peukuttaa suosikkihankettasi ja jakaa
sen eteenpäin omia kanaviasi pitkin. Voit myös neuvoa
eteenpäin jo käynnissä olevia kaupungin energiansäästö-
projekteja, tai perustaa oman hankkeen. Esimerkiksi nyt
jo yksittäiset hyvinkääläiset kimppaostavat maalämpöä,
jolla säästetään ympäristöä ja rahaa.
Hanke on kaikille avoin, ja se houkuttelee jo yrityksiä-kin mukaan. Jos hyvä tuuri käy, sinunkin ideaasi auttaa
eteenpäin esimerkiksi Rejlers Oy:n energiakonsultti.Kaupungin energiansäästötyöryhmä luovuttaa suosikki-
hankkeensa kehittäjille Vuoden energiakansalainen-ar-
vonimen, joka julkistetaan syksyllä 2014 energiansäästö-
viikon päätösseminaarissa.Ilmastotalkoiden tavoitteena on laskea yhteisiä hiilidiok-
sidipäästöjä viiden prosentin vuosivauhdilla seuraavien
kahdeksan vuoden aikana. Kaupungin omat toiminnot
aiheuttavat kaupungin yhteisistä hiilidioksidipäästöistä
alle 10 prosenttia, kotitaloudet yli 50 prosenttia ja yritykset noin 40 prosenttia.
Lisätietoja: www.hyvinkaa.fi tai viesintäpäällikkö Sari-Leena Lund, [email protected]
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What you get:1. Challenge citizens and companies
to build shared well-being.
2. Communicate respect, real participation and democracy of doing.
3. Design services with their users –without leaving your desktop.
4. You control what you execute.
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Do you value the initiatives of your citizens?
A city valuing proactive citizen action can invest in a collection of challenges tying related chal-
lenges together under your city brand. A collection activates all citizens and employees of the city to ideate and solve challeges together
– without boundaries.
inquiries:[email protected]
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1The branded
main challenge of the city
2Anybody
can ideate what your city needs
3Co-created challenges
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As a public servant, what does this require from me?
1. Real openness and sincere trust in the citizen’s willingness and skills to help me with
my job (from the very beginning). 2. An understanding that i myself can
help others out. 3. self-confidence and boldness to
be in the forefront of new people-private-public partnerships.
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As a local decision maker, what does this require from me?
1. A genuine will to empower your voters to build shared well being
2. A genuine will to find new ways of democracy 3. A genuine will to tell your public officials:
go ahead and try new things out!
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steps to success:
1) Define a precise citizen challgenge – in the very beginning of your project.
What is it about, when and how to you want your citizens to participate?
2) visualize and verbalize in a tempting way. Test your challenge with your target audience.
3) spread to relevant channels + media. Challenge your co-workers, citizens and companies.
Tell them what they get from parcitipating. Do a press release.
4) Cheer on the participants.Thank and cheer participation.
superiors – make sure you subordinates have your 100% support.
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What does it cost? You can start your own challenge for free
(for the time being). All challenges founded for free will remain free.
Please ask our quote for the collection.
MyWorldNeeds.us will help you through the whole process if needed.
Further inquiries:[email protected]
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The MyWorldNeeds.us challenge to your city:
is it possible to challenge the citizens to not just ask, but to do?
is it possible to create citizen-driven solutions and teams with joy and energy?
Would it be worth a talk?
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Thank you! Timo Berry
MyWorldNeeds.us / Joukkoenkeli Osakeyhtiö Annankatu 16 B 44–47 00120 helsinki, Finland tel: +358 41 532 4345
skype: timoberry [email protected]
www.myworldneeds.uswww.joukkoenkeli.fi
”I can’t think of any risks”