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TICTeC 2019: Paris 2019 Schedule Tuesday 19th March 08:30 · Level 0 Foyer (Conference Centre) Conference registration & refreshments 09:45 · Room CC9, Level -1 (Conference Centre) Welcome to TICTeC 2019 Mark Cridge (mySociety, UK) 10:00 · Room CC9, Level -1 (Conference Centre) Welcome from the OECD Anthony Gooch (OECD, France) The OECD is kindly hosting TICTeC 2019 at their conference centre. A few words from their Director of Public Aairs and Communications, Anthony Gooch, on why hosting TICTeC is so important. 10:15 · Room CC9, Level -1 (Conference Centre) The Third Age of Civic Tech Dr. Rebecca Rumbul (mySociety, UK) 10:30 · Room CC9, Level -1 (Conference Centre) Fostering democractic societies to fight platform populists: the Brazilian experience Alessandra Orofino (Nossas, Brazil) Recent years have seen the rise of platform populists gaining control of governments across the world. They campaign on an authoritarian agenda and with little care for democratic values, yet ironically, these tyrants are elected by citizens through democratic processes. Alessandra suggests that the best way to fight this tendency is to focus on fostering democratic societies rather than simply democratic institutions. In Brazil, the grassroots organisation that she founded, NOSSAS, has a strong background in cultivating citizen-led activism and direct engagement in political decision-making processes, while also supporting the growth of solidarity networks. NOSSAS gives people the tools to create resilient structures that can guarantee access to basic services to the most vulnerable people in society, even when they are having their rights threatened and services are being dismantled by the state itself. 11:15 · Foyer Level -1 (Conference Centre) Refreshment break Please note that the Chateau rooms are a five minute walk away from Room CC9. Sessions will begin promptly so please allow enough time to move between locations. 11:45 · Room CC9, Level -1 11:45 · Roger Ockrent Room 11:45 · Room D (Chateau) (Conference Centre) (Chateau) Urban outfitting: Civic Evaluating the impacts of Can parliaments harness Tech for the city context voter information collective intelligence? Developing an urban campaigns Aleksandra Berditchevskaia barometer David Alzate (J-Pal Global, US), (Nesta, UK) & Theo Bass (Nesta, Eliza Keller (J-PAL Global, US), UK) Antonio Cañamas (OECD, France) (OECD Statistics Jonathan Weigel (London School The past decade has seen a proliferation & Fabrice Murtin of Economics) & Yusuf Neggers in Civic Tech for crowdsourcing, including Directorate, France) (University of Michigan) a vast array of ideation and online The OECD presents work on the deliberation tools. development of an urban barometer As the line between fact and fiction in across several suburbs of Paris. politics becomes increasingly blurred, But amid a flourishing tech landscape, the need for eective strategies to we’ve seen far fewer high-level national This project engaged with citizens to convey facts to voters and hold elected institutions that are willing to use or provide evidence on subjective aspects leaders accountable is more pressing integrate such tools into formal political of wellbeing that can guide policy than ever before. processes. makers to best address their needs. It aims to help fill the current data gap by Researchers and J-PAL sta will present Based on Nesta’s current research within collecting data on subjective well-being case studies of information campaigns the UK Parliament, and through a and service satisfaction at a very and evaluation approaches, as well as number of structured exercises, granular level. insights from multiple randomised attendees of this workshop have the evaluations testing similar approaches. chance to examine what is necessary to bring crowdsourcing into parliamentary The Open Government decision-making, and increase the Partnership Multi-Donor opportunities for civic engagement. Trust Fund: Research on the Impact of Open Government and Participatory Democracy Claire Davanne (World Bank, US) & Stephen Davenport (World Bank Group, US) As the open government agenda gains steam, relatively little systematic research has been done to examine the ways dierent types and sequences of reforms have played out in various contexts, and with what impact. To address these knowledge gaps, and to sharpen our ways of thinking about the dierence that open government processes can make, the OGP and several Development Partners (DFID, AFD, GAC) have established a funding mechanism, the OGP MDTF, to expand research activities in the areas of Open Government, public participation, and Civic Tech. 13:00 · Roger Ockrent & George Marshall Rooms (Chateau) Lunch If you have any special dietary requirements, please ask the waiters/waitresses for your meal. 14:00 · Outside Chateau on lawn Group photo We will try and get a group photo outside the Chateau on the lawn - join us to say cheese! 14:30 · Room CC9, Level -1 (Conference Centre) Welcome from Google Civics Claire Foulquier-Gazagnes (Google) Civic Tech activist and Open Data advocate for the French government turned Partnership Manager for Civics at Google, Claire Foulquier- Gazagnes will share words of welcome to TICTeC participants, on behalf of Google Civics. She will introduce the Civic Googlers present of the conference and will kick o conversations on how to have positive social impact at scale. Google has been supporting TICTeC since its inception and partners with government and civil society civic organizations in areas related to its civic products and features. 14:55 Walk to breakout rooms Please note that the Chateau rooms are a five minute walk away from Room CC9. Sessions will begin promptly so please allow enough time to move between locations. 15:00 · Room CC9, 15:00 · Roger Ockrent 15:00 · Room D 15:00 · George Marshall Level -1 (Conference Room (Chateau) (Chateau) Room (Chateau) Centre) Challenges and Social, political Engaging citizens Funding, scaling opportunities for and public on well-being: and sustainable women in Civic engagement what does it take? growth Tech Holly Richards (OECD, This session focuses on the Learning from France), Nuria Villanova setbacks: Funding impactful experiences of those who (OECD), Vincent Finat- identify as women; however, Civocracy and Civic Tech in Latin Duclos (OECD) & America all TICTeC delegates are citizen welcome to come and listen, consultations Virginie Carvalhosa Lucia Abelenda learn and participate Martins (OECD) (Fundación Benjamin Snow Casalet thoughtfully. Women are For years, the OECD has been Avina, Mexico) encouraged to share their (Civocracy, Germany) examining and promoting own experience and insights ALTEC is one of the most Civocracy is a Civic Tech wellbeing as a cornerstone of on the challenges and significant funders of Civic platform that enables local policy-making, to get us opportunities in Civic Tech, Tech in Latin America, governments to run more beyond the use of GDP as a within small discussion supporting several eective and eicient citizen sole measure. groups and with anonymity prominent projects in the consultations. However, at assured. 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They and impact of Civic Tech conducted to help build the in which Civocracy adapted developed the Better Life projects, to derive useful Open Heroines Guide. their technology and Index, an online tool to lessons and make business model in response engage with citizens and recommendations for similar to this setback.The results learn what matters most for initiatives. have been transformative. their quality of life in an eort to complement oicial Scaling Civic Tech Being unsocial on statistics. impact through social media: the This workshop explores ways the Open implications for to connect the public, policy Government civic and political and politics to deliver on this Partnership engagement mission. Helen Turek (Open Marko Skoric (City Government Partnership, University of Hong Kong, Germany) China) Scaling is one of the key Although early research challenges facing Civic Tech supported an optimistic view initiatives. In the seven years that social media can since its founding, members reinvigorate our social, civic of the Open Government and political lives, we are Partnership have accrued a now less optimistic about wealth of experience from their impact — the discussion literally thousands of of echo chambers and projects and reforms. Helen political polarisation seems presents key learnings from to dominate our daily OGP’s experience in discourse. replicating and scaling Why did social media projects across borders. platforms suddenly become the villains in the story of What holds technology and democracy, government back and what has the social from helping Civic impact been? Tech projects scale? Breandán Knowlton (Government Digital Service, UK) Many Civic Tech and government initiatives struggle to achieve self- sustainability when moving from pilot to full-scale deployment. The UK government’s GovTech Catalyst innovation fund has been experimenting with new ways to support innovative local technology- enabled projects — and some interesting