New governance models | Knowledge for policy

Strategic Foresight

Collective intelligence could support policymakers in re-designing the way they work to take better decisions and prevent policy mistakes.
Collective processes do not succeed automatically but require precise design, training and development of skills.
Better information about citizens’ emotions and greater emotional literacy could improve policymaking.
Public institutions could integrate different elements of citizen engagement into the policy process more systematically.
Citizen engagement and informed public deliberation could contribute to policymaking in different forms and modalities and can help grasp better what citizens are thinking.
Citizen engagement exercises could be used to co-create and co-develop solutions and not only react and give opinions.
New governance mechanisms and participatory, bottom-up approaches could foster deliberative processes in policymaking.
Futures literacy could help policymakers to recognise uncertainties and complexities, and develop anticipatory thinking.
Public services should be designed to be modular and adaptable to circumstances in which we live. Citizens could be involved with the help of technology.
Representative democracy could be consolidated when re-establishing trustful relationships between citizens and governments.
Organisations and individuals acting as knowledge brokers could enhance the trustworthiness of science and government, and build knowledge communities around policy problems.
Policymakers and scientists could co-create and work together from the very beginning.

Originally Published \| Last Updated	31 Mar 2020 \| 29 Apr 2020
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