Rome Reports: Forum PA 2010
Rome: 20 May 2010
FORUM PA (A Centro Dell’ Innovazione) held a series of meetings over three days which closed on Thursday, 20 May 2010 – an annual event.
- Participation was at a record level and up by 15%
- View photos
- View streaming of presentations
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Ernesto Belisario on his blog has published commentary about the 2010 FORUM PA (approximate English Translation) (Italian text online):
“We have just concluded the 2010 edition of Forum PA, one of the most intense and participatory memories (congratulations to the organizers!). In the coming days, more calmly, surely we’ll return to some of the topics discussed during several meetings and the stimuli collected from old and new friends (since we mark the rich and those of posts by Gigi Nicola Mattina and Michele Vianello).
The participation and interest of the people present leads me to make two brief remarks: the theme of innovation in the public sector is much more heartfelt than you might think, and important increases the number of those who want to change things and they are going to do so immediately, without waiting for solutions to be lowered from above.
In this regard, the meeting was started out with an interesting talk "Innovation Without Permission" held on the morning of May 18, David Osimo gave a keynote very rich in ideas, talking about government 2.0 critically, highlighting the strengths but - also outside of the rhetoric - even exposing the weaknesses that this model has met in our country (find the interesting presentation here).
During my speech, I tried to answer the question "in Italy, you can make innovation without permission?" (The bottom of the post insert slides with the audio of the report) Well, my answer is positive but cautious: The past teaches us that in our country, the easy enthusiasm ads are not followed by concrete needed results, and now we can not allow yet another failure. That's why I think of innovation in the public sector as a race (we can not waste any time) obstacles (the route has, in fact, some indisputable difficulty): the times seem ripe for a real public innovation as long to learn from mistakes made in the past.
But I want to clarify that, in my view, talk about obstacles will not be a disincentive: anything, for that matter, as Thomas Fuller said, "Everything is difficult before it is easy.
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