This report was prepared by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance (GOV) under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director. It was drafted by the GOV’s Innovative, Digital, and Open Government Division, under the direction of Carlos Santiso, Head of Division. The report was co-ordinated by Angela Hanson, with contributions from Daniel Bengtsson, Jack Orlik, Julia Staudt, Joaquin Collao, Rodrigo Dal Borgo, Gabriela Coddou, Naoko Kawaguchi, Trish Lavery, and review by Piret Tõnurist and Joshua Polchar.
The publication also benefitted from the invaluable partnership and support of the Strategic Foresight Unit in the Office of the Secretary-General and from inputs from the Government Foresight Community.
The publication has benefitted from valuable comments and contributions across the OECD Public Governance Directorate, notably by Gillian Dorner, Deborah Fernandez, Matthieu Cahen, and Andrea Uhrhammer.
The OECD is grateful to all public authorities in Lithuania, Italy, and Malta that supported the preparation of this report. In particular, representatives from the Government Strategic Analysis Centre, Office of the Government, and Committee for the Future in Lithuania, the National School of Administration in Italy, and the Office of the Prime Minister in Malta provided invaluable clarification, co-ordination and feedback as the report was developed. We are also grateful for the input of representatives from the International Transport Forum Innovation Hub, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Government of Finland, Government of Ireland, Government of Norway, Government of Wales (UK), Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, Finland Futures Research Centre, Timeout Foundation, Aretai Oy/Dialogue Academy, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Committee for the Future in the Finnish Parliament, HAUS Finnish Institute of Public Management Strategy, Lithuania State Progress Council, Lithuania Ministry of Transport and Communications, Italy Ministry of Environment and Energy Security, Italy Ministry of Economy and Finance, Malta Institute for the Public Services, Malta Ministry for Social Policy and Children’s Rights, Malta Ministry of for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation, School of International Futures, Flanders Chancellery and Foreign Office (Belgium), UK is the Head of Futures at HM Revenue and Customs, Vilnius University, University of Trento, University of Oxford, and King’s College London. The OECD is also grateful to Delegates of the Public Governance Committee and the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation National Contact Points for their review.
The OECD would like to thank the government officials in Italy, Lithuania, and Malta who responded to questionnaires, participated in interviews, and provided data and materials that provided evidence for this publication.
The project was funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, and implemented by the OECD, in co-operation with the European Commission.