Global challenge, local response?
Channel: States of Change
Date: 2020-05-21

Local Government responses to COVID

​“Should ‘local’ be our focus for innovation and structural change? Are central government responses helping or hindering local efforts? Where are governments building trust, and where are they eroding it?”

These questions tap into a long debate predating covid-19; one of decentralisation on the one hand and holding (or hoarding!) all power at the centre on the other. When to lose control, and when to grasp it. When a global challenge dwarfs any single government, whether local, regional, national or international how do we best respond?

Three inspiring humans with a diverse set of hands-on experience in driving innovation in and with local government join us: Dominic Campbell, CEO of FutureGov, Stephanie Wade, Government innovation Lead at Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Stephane Vincent, Director of La 27e Region.​

Notes to the call: 
http://docs.google.com/document/d/1vKrBR8lhMg3_SGGRqxfrnHlQsWB8N0leKsR94u6pGo8/edit?usp=sharing