The OECD Secretariat wishes to express its gratitude and acknowledge all the institutions and individuals that have contributed to this publication. This policy paper was prepared by the OECD Innovative Digital and Open Governance Division, under the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV) and the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski. It was developed under the overall supervision of Carlos Santiso, Head of the Innovative Digital and Open Governance Division and David Goessmann, Acting Head of the Open Governance, Public Communications and Civic Space Unit. This policy paper was drafted by Mauricio Mejia, Paulina Boéchat and Eloise Gabadou. Bruno Monteiro coordinated the project and provided strategic comments throughout the document.
This paper is prepared by the OECD as a deliverable of the project “Improving civic participation with emerging technologies” (23PT04) that Portugal, the Netherlands and Spain, funded by the European Commission under the Technical Support Instrument (TSI). The OECD Secretariat would like to address special thanks to Jorge Lagarto, Beatriz Silva, Patrícia Paralta and Elsa Belo from LabX within Agencia para a Modernizacao Administrativa (AMA) in Portugal, M. Concepcion Martinez Tejedor, Mercedes de la Fuente Torre, Pablo Blanco Fins and Marta Sánchez di Malta from LIP within Instituto Nacional de Aministración Pública (INAP) in Spain, and Giulietta Marani, Corné Snoeij and Nitesh Bharosa from Digicampus in the Netherlands. These partners are giving decisive guidance and steering to the project activities, sharing critical knowledge, and co-ordinating the interactions with public officials and key stakeholders in their countries. Throughout the drafting process they provided indispensable inputs and insights, gave support to the data collection and draft review, and hosted activities for the research phase (such as the systemic mapping workshops). Nicole Donkers and Katiuska Tarquis-Marin from the European Commission – DG REFORM consistently provided guidance and support.
The authors would like to extend a special acknowledgement to all experts that provided insights and accepted to be interviewed: Niccolo Testi, Rebecca Marconi, Maria Pia Junquera Temprano, Luis Rodriguez, Aviv Ovadya, Naiara Goia, Ione Ardaiz, Felix Carros, Logan Duff-Meadwell, Robert Bjarnason, Colin Megill, Adriana Groh, Thiago Peixoto, Antaraa Vasudev, Atharva Joshi, Geci Karuri-Sebina, Yasmin Shapurjee, Colombina Schaeffer, Wietse Van Ransbeeck, Winston NG, and the members of the OECD Innovative Citizen Participation Network.
The authors would also like to thank OECD colleagues that provided support and comments: Bruno Monteiro, Jack Orlik, Simone Parazzoli, Joaquin Collao, Deniz Devrim, Giulia Cibrario, Ollin Pérez-Raynaud, Angela Hanson, David Winickoff, Daniel Tekla, Joanne Caddy, and Gillian Dorner.