- 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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