Global dialogues event
This multi-dimension program features a range of experiences and diverse ways that people and organisations can take part, contribute and gain new insights.
Government After Shock is a new approach, a participatory experiment among leading international institutions, government organisations, research centres, civil society and private sector groups, and many other with a view to collective dialogue, insight and problem-solving for public value.
DAY ONE
Networked dialogues that will be grassroots oriented, and focus on insights from the frontline
The Global Dialogues Assembly will be a network of local dialogue events, hosted in cities around the world on 17 November 2020.
A format for open contribution
Each local event will be a day of open, participatory discussion in short sessions with topics nominated by participants, framed with brief, scene-setting ‘lightning’ presentations and multi-point video link-ups.
A dialogue ‘relay’
The discussion in each location will be captured using social tools, with events connecting across time-zones to ‘pass the dialogue baton’ to the next event. Local co-hosts of each event will also contribute to the Global Insights Assembly event on the following day, 18 November.
DAY TWO
An open forum bringing together contributions from leaders & practitioners around the world.
The Global Insights Assembly on Wednesday 18 Nov 2020 will aggregate the dialogue from Day One together with leadership contributions.
Linking local experience for global insights
The Global Insights Assembly events will draw together the threads and themes of the dialogue events the previous day. The Assembly will bring in insights from leaders, commentators and participants from the city events, and build on them to coalesce a global picture of “Government After Shock”.
Collective perspective
The OECD team will lead the development of a portfolio of collective insights, curating the two-day Government After Shock networked event in November, as well as other gatherings held during 2020. These insights will be assembled into a series of artefacts, which will be shared with participants as well as strategic affiliate organisations.
A ‘dialogue relay’ following the sun across two days
Not just a ‘live’ synchronised webinar, the main Government After Shock events program on 17 + 18 November 2020 is being designed as a rolling series of local events around the world – a kind of global ‘dialogue relay’.
Several times throughout their day event, each participating local space (including virtual-only local meetups) will be linked by live video hook-ups specific to their world region. It is anticipated there will be 6-8 of these cross-timezone video feeds patched into each place’s in-room discussions.
This will be repeated throughout the second day. #GovAfterShock may be over 72 hours of rolling dialogues – from Tuesday morning 17 November at 9am in New Zealand to Wednesday afternoon 18 November at 4pm in Hawaii.
ONE BIG IDEA…
…for convening many important ideas
This massive gathering, while ambitious, will be built upon the real-world experience of a core team while drawing on the expertise and local perspectives of a multi-national network of co-organisers.
Significantly, it will be designed and implemented in a ‘ground-up’ way by bringing together diverse expertise and talent among event convenors and facilitators, academics and subject matter experts, digital tech and logistics teams, social commentators and media platforms, as well as much more.
This global event initiative is also ambitious in a much more important sense: it aims to be a genuinely open and collaborative platform for other leading institutions, government bodies and policy organisations.
The OECD and European Commission welcome other international organisations joining them to co-convene a ‘mass dialogue’ that will be enabled by collaborative leadership as well as the mass collaboration of participants.
Making it happen
The OECD OPSI team are the drivers for this program and have formed a collaboration with the Cofluence group who have experience in designing and delivering networked events across multiple time-zones. They bring experience in co-governance models for affiliate organisations, conceptual development of the global/local format and creative programming, logistics models for coordinating collaborative input and the worldwide ‘social reporting’, and briefing a community of leading local facilitators.
In the countdown to November, the #GovAfterShock team will actively work with national and city organisers as well as institutional and corporate collaborators to ensure that this global pop-up network of Government After Shock affiliates are supported and also to facilitate maximum mutual value from participating.
Part of the early planning includes putting place key communication elements such as teams and tools that will capture, harvest and curate input from diverse locations and perspectives to be available to leaders, policy makers and practitioners everywhere to ensure a practical post-event legacy for all participants.
Making it work for your stakeholders & community
Government After Shock is being co-designed as an initiative that will demonstrate open collaboration – across sectors, jurisdictions and organisations. It will be shaped by all those who join in – whether by participating, organising or leading.
Your organisation can use Government After Shock as a platform for extra ways of serving or supporting your members, stakeholders or community. We would like to hear from you.
Making it work for you and your work
This networked event is being co-designed to be low barrier-to-entry for any organisation, department or group of individuals who want to use it to learn, contribute and discover new ways forward for your public purpose work. All participation levels will have modular and flexible options so you can shape it to be what you need.
So you may be part of asking:
What will government look like, what can it be, after this period of shock?
…while also for you and your peers:
What do I need now? Where is my work heading? How can I help shape the future of government and its impact on my communities?
Your discovery platform for ‘government after shock’ is almost ready – it just needs you.
Summary documents
For more information, download the Gov After Shock summary documents
