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Many societies, one virtual space
The European Union and national governments should provide citizens with a safe and democratic digital space in collaboration with civil society actors.
- Host: Milena Lazarević
- Guests: Gregor Virant
- Published: 23/09/2020
En route to a better public administration: Why bottom-up pressure is necessary
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Welcome to the first episode of the WeBER podcast series of European Talks podcast, a new communication tool in the regional WeBER initiative context. Each podcast episode will be devised around a relevant public administration reform and civil society related topic in the region. With this series, we mainly target civil society, experts, government officials and external interested audience (rather than public). Highly conversational in nature, it is available in video format on WeBER portal – www.par-monitor.org.
In the first episode, our guest is Gregor Virant, Head of SIGMA (Support for Improvement in Governance and Management, a joint initiative of the OECD and the EU, principally financed by the EU), and former Minister of Public Administration of Slovenia. Milena Lazarević, an expert on this topic, of the European Policy Centre – CEP Programme Director and WeBER initiative Team Leader, talked with him about the SIGMA principles of public administration, the WeBER initiative and why civil society must monitor and involve in the public administration reform process.
Useful links:
www.sigmaweb.org
www.par-monitor.org
www.europeanpolicy.org
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