Invitation: Three Levers to Promote Digital Democracy: Legal Way, People Way, Hacker Way – Amélie Banzet in Finland on 26.11.

Dear recipient interested in the future of democracy,
Amélie Banzet, head of Etalab in the French PMO will visit Finland on 26.11. as part of the  BIBU (Tackling Biases and Bubbles of Participation) research program’s Democracy Accelerator. Etalab is part of the French Prime Minister’s Office where it carries out radically innovative projects to improve public policy thanks to digital culture, tools and data. Banzet has worked on government transformation for several years, and in particular on the use of civic tech and digital resources to improve transparency and citizen participation in public action.

In Finland Banzet will be presenting Etalab’s work and talking about e.g the digital republic law which includes open data by default and accountability of algorithm (“legal way”); how they work with their ecosystem (“people way”) and how tools can lead to changes (“hacker way”). BIBU’s Democracy Accelerator, a platform and community for democracy innovators in Finland will also be presented and discussed in the event. Please sign up to the event from the link below.

Program

14.45 Coffee and afternoon snack are served

15.00 Welcome!

Amélie Banzet’s keynote: Three Levers to Promote Digital Democracy: Legal way, People Way, Hacker way.

16.00 Discussion

16.30 Democracy Accelerator: Platform and community for democracy developers – how can it serve me, how can I be part of it?

17.00 Event ends

 

Event: Three levers to promote digital democracy : legal way, people way, hacker way– Amélie Banzet in Finland on 26.11.

Date and time: Monday 26.11. at 15–17

Venue: Porthania Lehtisali, Yliopistonkatu 3, 2nd floor

Sign-up: https://goo.gl/forms/DP6syFGlQynS1pQo2

For more information, please contact Democracy Accelerator’s coordinator, Demos Helsinki’s Julia Jousilahti, julia.jousilahti@demoshelsinki.fi, 0407224931