Hanse Passage Final Conference

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Hanse Passage Final Conference
Cluster ANew Forms of Governance

• Gesa Wessolowski
• The Senator for Finances, Bremen
• Tim Everette_at_SY connects, Yorkshire

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Agenda

• Goals and aims
• Strategy
• Subthemes and projects
• Progress
• Best practice(s)
• What did we learn?

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Goals and aims

• to stimulate inter-regional co-operation with
  regard to issues related to new and innovative
  forms of governance and more efficient public
  administration at the regional and the local
  level

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Strategy
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Subthemes and Projects
from 14 regions in 6 countries
Participation and Transparency
48 in-stitutions
Youth Participation(Prov. Groningen)
WaterframeworkDirective (OOWV, LWK Weserems)
E-Participation(Sheffield City Council)
ParliamentariansProject (Prov.Flevoland)
Mobility Health (BFER Bremen)
E-Gov Hanse(Bremen online services)
Hanse Mirror(Prov. Groningen)
Enhance capabilitiesfor governments
Improve public services
1.62 mill.
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Selected best practices
Stakeholder mapping in watershed management
(Lower Saxony) Debate Institute (Overijssel)
Citizens Jury in spacial planning (Flevoland)
Drenthe Europe Network RegNet E-Government
Bremen-Lower Saxony (Bremen) Fryslan House
(Fryslan) - Youth, region and parliaments
(Pomorskie) Social economic councils (Haute
Normandie) Enterprising Parliament (Groningen)
The citizens motion (Bremen) IBON (Bremen) -
Emergency Medical Information System (Haute
Normandie) Integrated spacial planning in
local public transport (Hannover) dial-a-bus
(Sheffield) e_at_sy connects (Yorkshire) Voting
in the 21st Century (Hanse Passage) Trend Team,
Youth Poll (Groningen) Future Games (Drenthe)
Safety on the bus (Flevoland) Frisian Youth
Parliament (Fryslan) Junior Association (Haute
Normandie) Youth Advisory Council ( Bremen)
NeXt Party (Lower Saxony) Digifarm
(Overijssel) Academy Zlota9 (Lublin) Helpline
(Riga)
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Progress

• more than 150 best practices discussed
• more than 10 best practices successfully
  transferred
• Intense knowledge transfer
• Sustainable networks
• Most synergies in E-Government and
  E-Participation

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Best practice example e.Participation e_at_SY
Connects UK Tim Rivett (Chair e_at_SY Connects)
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Evidence of Impact

• a) Not just saying sharing but already
  implemented in the UK and Europe

b) Location and players involved South
Yorkshire
b) Location and players involved South
Yorkshire other UK towns/cities Flevoland
(Holland) City of Riga (Latvia) City of
Yangquan/Beijing
c) was in existence but limited functionality,
up-take and impact Inclusive, innovative
(multiple channel) Petitioning
d) Scale (e.g. geographical extent, categories of
beneficiaries targeted, number of
beneficiaries targeted) 1.4 Million in
South Yorkshire alone, across all groups
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Sharing of Good Practice

• 1. Openness
• Process and change in process/deadlines published
• Access via any channel
• 2. Transparency Accountability
• Whole active petition process reviewed by all
• Responsible officers and respondents
  identified/contactable
• 3. Participation
• Total and intuitive
• (a) Generic, multi-lingual solution implemented
  outside UK

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Understanding of Multiple Channel Aspects
Innovation Management Efficiency

• Three Key Efficiency Effectiveness Gains
• 1. Reduction in administration burden Shared
  Service
• 2. Value added customer satisfaction -
• Not simply one way information flow or two
  way consultations
• creates a partnership between civil society
  elected
• representatives and/or government officers
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  A Community of Practice
• 3. Public Service Inclusion larger number of
  participants, better decisions through use of
  Multiple Channels

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Why is this different?

• 1. Dynamic Impact
• 2. Exemplar of Sharing on all levels
• 3. Unsurpassed Multiple Channel Strategy
  Implementation
• 4. Innovative with Inherent Efficient
  Effectiveness Gains

No citizen, or business needs to be left
behind, theyre empowered and can assist and
particpate to make better informed decisions
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What did we learn?

• Interregional knowledge transfer and networking
  are most important for improving governance
  arrangements
• Citizen participation and improving public
  service delivery are most called for on the local
  and regional level
• E - is an instrument to support and enhance the
  efficiency and innovation of input and output
  side of local and regional governance
  (E-Government)
• Innovative public sector serves as a light house,
  attracting new and innovative businesses to the
  region

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The faces behind
Thank you!