Democracy is broken and to fix it we need to change the culture. We have to make democracy innovative, open and co-creative. This means transforming government to value partnership and innovation and empowering citizens to become active citizens.

1. Institutionalizing Innovation,
Socialising Engagement &
Networking Change
Urban Living Labs, Politecnico di Milan, Nov 2014
Dr Andy Williamson
andy@democrati.se
@andy_williamson

3. The Democratic Landscape
 How evidence shapes policy.
 The [il]legtimacy of ideas.
 The abandonment of ideology.
 The colonisation of language.
 Civic dislocation.

4. The Need for Change
 People haven’t lost in interest in doing,
they’ve lost interest in systems that don’t
represent them.
 Sustained engagement requires cultural
transformation and education.
 Digitising a broken process creates a
broken digital process.

5. The four principles of active
democracies
 Control is over-rated.
 Power used to create personal advantage
will always fail.
 Crowds are better at creating the future.
 Self-reflection helps us understand the
impact of our actions.