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Program Overview |
Central European Summer Time (CEST), UTC +2 – local Serbian Time
Friday, May 26, 2023 9:00 - 10:30
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ReSPA – NAPA panel |
Building public sector resiliency through strategic foresight and innovation – the Western Balkans context |
Room |
1.8 (1st Floor ) |
Related to |
ReSPA – NAPA panel Building public sector resiliency |
Chair: |
Gentian Xhaxhiu, ReSPA (Regional School of Public Administration), Danilovgrad, Montenegro |
Chair: |
Kristina Pekec, National Academy for Public Administration, Belgrade, Serbia |
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Introduction
The Regional School of Public Administration (ReSPA) and the National Academy for Public Administration of Serbia (NAPA) will co-organize and moderate a discussion panel, which is organised in the frame of the 31st Annual Conference of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration of Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee). The panel will tackle the following topics: innovative public services, strategic foresight in the public sector, management of innovation in public administration and innovative capacity of civil servants, capacity development on innovation & foresight, management of public policy and innovation, etc.
A bit of context
The pandemic, the new war, energy, fuel and prices’ crisis and other events demonstrate the systemic nature of risk and highlight the need for resilient and anticipatory governance. It means being capable of preparing for future uncertainties—rather than only responding to what has already happened. Strategic foresight can be used to advance anticipatory governance to achieve overall economic and societal development. For this, governments must be anticipatory by nature. Anticipatory governance, which applies foresight, covers all institutional processes in decision-making, planning, and implementation of policies. For the resilience of the public sector, the essential is moving beyond the silos: working together to make faster, inclusive, and holistic decisions.
Therefore, governments must be able to break away from a siloed approach to work as the complex and systemic nature of the work we are currently involved in requires this. Especially the structures within the centers of Governments must fully embrace their integrator role, both externally with partner organizations and internally within the government’s current structures, and build an infrastructure of shared ownership and sustained long-term collaboration.
The main actors of the session
This panel will strive to address building resilient government, organizations and society to address crisis through strengthening strategic foresight and innovation. Participants would be representatives of various administrations from the Western Balkans, representatives from EU Member State (Estonia) which made progress in building a resilient government and representative of the EC Competence Center on Foresight (tbc).
Indicative scenario
The session will be moderated by Gentian Xhaxhiu, ReSPA and Kristina Pekec, NAPA.
1. Moderators to kick off the session and set the scene (context) – 5 minutes
2. Moderators to pass the floor to Ms. Anni Lehari, Public Sector Innovation, Strategy Unit, Government Office of Estonia – to provide a comprehensive presentation on how Estonia deals with public sector innovation and strategic foresight. 20 minutes. In the end of the presentation, the audience may have questions for Ms. Lehari.
3. Moderators to pass the floor to Thomas Hemmelgarn, Head of Unit at the Joint Research Centre, EC, to provide a presentation on the importance of the strategic, future-oriented and anticipatory culture in policymaking process, its status in the EU policy-making, the role of the JRC, etc. Foresight is important also in view of other megatrends such as green transition, maybe you also bring some of those in this discussion. 20 minutes. In the end of the presentation, the audience may have questions for the speaker.
4. Panel discussion (50 minutes). Designated representatives from ReSPA member administrations will present their experience gained from recent crisis and actions undertaken by their administrations in building resilient governments so far, their plans to strengthen resilient governments, resilient organizations and society, the obstacles faced, and what kind of support they need on their way to build resilient organizations.
Question for representative from Albania (Elisa Stamo, Head of Unit, National Authority of Electronic Certification and Cyber Security): As of May 2022, Albania shifted all the public services online, and this was a clear sign of innovation. However, the cyberattacks which happened in the summer last year put the whole system in danger and some physical counters were back. This leads us to the question: Can Governments deliver services without interruption during a crisis and in a dynamic context? Do they have the required infrastructure? Tell us more on the measures that Albania is undertaking to make this happen…
Question for representative from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sabahudin Suljevic, Expert advisor for information technologies and Service Delivery, PAR Coordinator Office):
As strategic foresight often entails looking into the new trends and anticipate the impact of their use and application are there preconditions in the PA of BiH to ensure the application of new trends (emerging technologies) and in which ways it could contribute to the resilient systems of digital services?
How the strengthened interoperability can contribute to more resilient public administration?
Question for representative from Montenegro (Vesna Simonovic, Head of Division for Digitalization and eGovernment, Ministry of Public Administration):
In the summer of last year, Montenegro also experienced a strong cyberattack on IT infrastructure. Can you give us more insights on lessons learned after this attack and how you plan to build a more resilient government?
Question for representative from North Macedonia (Kalinka Gaber, State Advisor, Cabinet for Policy and Strategic Development and Coordination):
In the first half of 2022 MISA evaluated its PAR Strategy and the Action Plan (AP) for the period 2018-2021. This evaluation served as an input for the development of the new PAR Strategy for 2023-2030 and AP. The Strategy was also sent to the EC for the opinion. Were there any innovative ways of Strategy development that differ from the development of the previous one and if so, what are they? How will this Strategy and its AP contribute to building resilient institutions in PA of North Macedonia?
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