Open policy making process
Thanks @Alberto!! This story and comments are REALLY interesting, also as a starting point for our challenge and the discussion that we would like to share here. Starting from Ginette/@Yannick perspective that identify these 2 main forms of Care: 1. Care that cames from love and friendship: 2. All other forms need to be done by the Government.
So the problem of scalability. We are seeing in our City and in Edgeryders, a lot of interesting care projects, community driven, but the idea is that the role for Government is to guarantee the scalability.
What is the scalability?
In my opinion the scalability could be possible only if these new solutions, new approaches became part of an open policy making process.
So, in our case, the Local Administration has to became an observator, a facilitator of these initiatives, helping them to evaluate their own effectiveness and impact.
In our experiences we’re observing many interesting care projects that are developed by communities, using new approaches to care, involving new actors (makers, hackers…)
These experiences are helping us to change also our services directly, to manage our services in new ways, trying to recompose the fragmented network of Care.
I think that Government could be not an obstacle, or a part of the problem, risk that @winnieponcelet reported, but (hopefully!!) a part of the solution: if tha PA can change its perspective and tries not to be THE actor, the only care provider really allowed to do something, but one of the actors.
Also, maybe, to guarantee not to fall to a neoliberalism way to solve problems…
But in which role?
We’are thinking to develop this idea: became an enabling platform that can facilitate the dissemination of some solutions, and create the conditions to replicate in a large scale what has been evaluated effective.
But it’s not simple, and of course we’re talking in general.
We want to open a challenge about this topic because we would like to stimulate a debate and also find concrete examples about the role that in each project could/should be done by a Public Administration (in particular Municipalities).
We‘ll share also some stories of our administration that in our opinion are going in this direction, to rethink traditional services in the new context of Care.
This conversation could maybe became also a way to create a path for discussing how civil servants could continue to believe to do a “real work” and not just a prescribed, traditional work, @PhilippeDrouillon.
What do you think?