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Building Resilience Against COVID-19 and Other Risks SEPTEMBER 2020 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS CONFERENCE INNOVATING GOVERNANCE: 6th Building Resilience against COVID-19 and Other Risks SEPTEMBER 2020 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS CONFERENCE Philippine Institute for Development Studies Surian sa mga Pag-aaral Pangkaunlaran ng Pilipinas Innovating Governance: Building Resilience against COVID-19 and Other Risks Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Public Policy Conference 2020 Innovating Governance: Building Resilience against COVID-19 and Other Risks Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Public Policy Conference 2020 Philippine Institute for Development Studies Surian sa mga Pag-aaral Pangkaunlaran ng Pilipinas Copyright 2021 Published by Philippine Institute for Development Studies Printed in the Philippines. Some rights reserved. The views expressed in these proceedings are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of any individual or organization. Please address all inquiries to: Philippine Institute for Development Studies 18th Floor, Three Cyberpod Centris - North Tower EDSA corner Quezon Avenue, 1100 Quezon City Telephone: (63-2) 88774000 Fax: (63-2) 88774099 E-mail: [email protected] Website: https://www.pids.gov.ph This volume is published annually and is under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License. It shall not be used for commercial purposes. Anyone can use, reuse, distribute, and build upon this material as long as proper attribution is made. ISSN 2546-1761 RP 04-21-600 Editorial and production team: Sheila Siar (editor), Gizelle Manuel (assistant copyeditor), Maryam Tubio (layout artist), and Jocelyn Almeda (coordinator) Table of Contents List of Images and Figures ....................................................................................................................................................... ix Foreword ....................................................................................................................................................................................... xi Preface .......................................................................................................................................................................................... xiii Acknowledgment .......................................................................................................................................................................xv List of Acronyms ..................................................................................................................................................................... xvii About the Conference ............................................................................................................................................................ xxi OPENING PROGRAM Welcome Remarks ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Celia Reyes Keynote Message ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Karl Kendrick Chua APPC WEBINAR 1: Innovation in Public Sector Governance for Resilience: Theory and Practice Session Opener .........................................................................................................................................................................10 Coco Alcuaz 1 | It’s Not a Matter of What Your Government Can Do for You ......................................................................11 James Brumby Don’t look back ..................................................................................................................................................................11 Co-ordination and control; the government command center .............................................................................12 Service delivery and payment; socially distanced delivery .......................................................................................13 Financially bigger but likely weaker states ....................................................................................................................15 Spillovers from reset geopolitics ....................................................................................................................................16 Government information to be challenged ................................................................................................................17 Conclusion – a profound reshaping and shifting ......................................................................................................18 References ...........................................................................................................................................................................18 2 | Taking a Whole-of-society Approach to Building a Just Future .................................................................19 Panthea Lee The power of community response .............................................................................................................................19 The limitations of institutional response .....................................................................................................................20 Learning from communities ...........................................................................................................................................21 Implications for the future .............................................................................................................................................21 Policy follows culture .......................................................................................................................................................22 vi Reaction 1 ....................................................................................................................................................................................23 Maria Teresa Magno-Garcia The rise of Smart Governance ......................................................................................................................................23 Envisioning a digital Philippines ...................................................................................................................................23 ICT as a catalyst to recovery ..........................................................................................................................................24 Leveraging technology and data in the new normal ..............................................................................................25 Reaction 2 ....................................................................................................................................................................................27 Gerardo Sicat Open Forum ............................................................................................................................................................................. 29 APPC WEBINAR 2: INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATIONS AND REFORMS UNDER THE NEW NORMAL Session Opener .........................................................................................................................................................................36 Charlotte Justine Sicat 1 | High Touch High Tech: Transforming Education after COVID-19 .........................................................37 Ju-Ho Lee In teaching the next generation .......................................................................................................................................37 Teachers as designers of learning environment ..........................................................................................................38 Evidence of High Touch High Tech education ........................................................................................................38 K-Edu: new developments in Korea’s education system ........................................................................................40 Progress in the area ...........................................................................................................................................................41 2 | Building a Digital Public: Public Interest Technology, Data, and Trust ..................................................43 Sean McDonald Learning from the Ebola crisis .......................................................................................................................................43 Trusting the technology ...................................................................................................................................................44 Contact tracing as fundamentally political .................................................................................................................45 Experimentation and innovation ..................................................................................................................................46 Data Trust .........................................................................................................................................................................46 Reaction 1 ...................................................................................................................................................................................49 Raymund Liboro Public health versus data ..................................................................................................................................................49
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