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Building state capacity in the digital age
13 June 2024, 2:00 pm–3:15 pm
Join UCL IIPP for this IIPP Forum 2024's plenary sessions on 'Building state capacity in the digital age: an infrastructure-based approach to the digital transition', taking place on Thursday 13 June at 14:00 - 15:15 BST.
This event is free.
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Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
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UCL IIPP
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Wellcome Collection183 Euston RoadLondonNW1 2BEUnited Kingdom
IIPP 2024 Forum
As part of the IIPP Forum 2024, UCL IIPP is hosting five plenary sessions. These sessions are an opportunity to rethink existing policy systems and explore what transformative ‘market shaping’ policy approaches look like in practice.
About the session
The digital era has brought about significant changes in how societies operate, and the expectations placed upon governments to deliver services, policies, and goods effectively and at scale. Paper-based, siloed government infrastructure and associated practices are no longer effective in the 21st century. Moving towards digital-era government implies rethinking how governments operate and what public infrastructure means.
In this session, we explored a new way of thinking about digital transformation: an infrastructural approach. By leveraging IIPP's practice-oriented research on digital public infrastructure (DPI), we discussed:
- What an infrastructural approach looks like and how to develop the state capacity required to build it at scale;
- How to build and govern DPI to maximise public value creation;
- How a DPI approach can support a just green transition;
- A common good approach to digital transformation.
Meet the panel
Our expert panel of scholars and policy makers included Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director and Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), David Eaves, Co-Deputy Director and Associate Professor in Digital Government at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), Beatriz Vasconcellos, Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), Henrique Dolabella, Director of the Rural Environmental Registry at the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services in Brazil, and Mansi Kedia, Senior Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on Interational Economic Relations (ICRIER).
Key information
- When: Thursday 13 June at 14:00 - 15:15 BST
- Where: Henry Wellcome Auditorium at the Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd., London NW1 2BE
About the Speakers
Mariana Mazzucato
Founding Director and Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
Professor Mazzucato is the author of four highly-acclaimed books: The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy (2018), Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism (2021) and The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies (2023).
She advises policymakers around the world on innovation-led, inclusive and sustainable growth. Her current roles include being Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Co-Chair on the Council on Urban Initiatives, and a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council.
More about Mariana MazzucatoDavid Eaves
Co-Deputy Director and Associate Professor in Digital Government at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
Previously a lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School where he taught and wrote on digital era public administration, digital transformation and the governance of digital public infrastructure, David has co-founded Teaching Public Service in a Digital Age, which has sought to bring together faculty from around the world to co-design and share an open licensed curriculum to teach the minimum needed digital competences for future public leaders. These materials are now used by dozens of faculty members in over 20 universities around the world David has partnered with Public Digital to co-hosts an annual convening of digital government leaders from around the world. He has also taught policy analysis in the MPP core curriculum and ran a highly successful Executive Education program on Digital Transformation.
In addition to his work at HKS David co-founded and served as CEO of a civictech start up that successfully grew to serve over 400 governments across North America. He’s advised on governance and collaboration strategies for open source communities such as OpenMRS, Drupal and Mozilla and provided training to almost every cohort of Code for America fellows, White House Presidential Innovation Fellows and Code for Canada fellows.
David is also proud of his work as a negotiation adviser to numerous tech organizations, governments and environmental groups. He served as negotiation advisor to a coalition of Canadian environmental government organizations during two years of negotiations with the Forestry Products Association of Canada (FPAC) which helped cement the ground-breaking Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement. More about David Eaves
Beatriz Vasconcellos
Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
At IIPP, she leads a research group on State Capacity in the Digital Era and works with Professor David Eaves on research related to digital public infrastructures. Her areas of expertise are public governance, international development, digital transformation, and long-term state capacities.
Prior to joining IIPP, Beatriz worked with the private and public sectors at the local and national levels to co-develop and implement innovative governance approaches. She has accumulated experience in the design and facilitation of long-term capacity-building programs and policy design and delivery.
Beatriz holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration and International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she won the Raymond Vernon Award for Outstanding Commitment to International Development. She is a Lemann Foundation and a Person of The Year fellow.
Outside of work, Beatriz likes to write fiction stories and letters to friends, go on long hikes, meet friends for beers, and spend time with her family. She is very proud of her hometown Rio de Janeiro and loves touring her friends around. More about Beatriz Vasconcellos
Dr. Mansi Kedia
Senior Fellow at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
Henrique Dolabella
Director of the Rural Environmental Registry at Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services in Brazil
