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Co-VAL was successfully completed after more than three years of intensive research on public service co-creation. The project presented successfully its final research results at its closing event, hosted online, on April 21st 2021. The event, titled ‘2021 Digital Government Summit: Government in the Service of Citizens – How ‘Co-Creation’ and Design Thinking Are Making […]
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We would like to personally thank everyone who joined the 2021 Digital Government Summit: Creating Services Together. We have had already outstanding feedback from many participants, who enjoyed the chance to hear such fascinating insights on how co-creation and design thinking are making European Public Services human-centric. A big thank you as well to all that […]
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Last month, during the 2021 Digital Government Summit, Co-VAL together with the Lisbon Council launched the new Policy Brief ‘The 2021 State of Co-Creation: Delivering Services Together’, an in-depth analysis of the state of co-creation in the 27 European Union member states, the United Kingdom and six leading cities (Amsterdam, Athens, Madrid, Milan, Paris and […]
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By Charlotte van Ooijen and David Osimo The COVID-19-induced lockdowns have drawn people all over the world into the digital realm. More than ever before, we work, shop and play online. During the first fiscal quarter of 2020, the video-conferencing app Zoom increased its customer base among businesses with more than 10 employees by 354 […]
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Last month, together with the Lisbon Council, we launched our newest Policy Brief ‘Co-Creation at Scale: How Service Design, Living Labs and Innovation Networks Help Public Servants Deliver Better Services – and How Those Services Can Be Made Sustainable’ In specific, Charlotte van Ooijen, senior research fellow, and Francesco Mureddu, director at the Lisbon Council, […]
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We would like to invite you to the high-level digital government summit, ‘Government in the Service of Citizens – How ‘Co-Creation’ and Design Thinking Are Making European Public Services Truly Human Centric’, organised by the Lisbon Council and the Co-VAL project, on Wednesday April 21st, at 15h00-17h00 CEST. During this event, experts from five flagship […]
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Just days after European Union member states signed the Berlin Declaration on Digital Society and Value-Based Digital Government, a pan-European pledge for a new approach to digital transformation in Europe, the Lisbon Council convened the High-Level Roundtable on Human-Centric Digital Government: The Berlin Declaration in Practice. Before an eclectic audience of of highly ranked civil servants, local […]
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By Johanna Barton and Francesco Mureddu, respectively project manager and research associate and director at the Lisbon Council, a leading Brussels-based think tank and partner of the Co-VAL project. On the 8th of December 2020, the digital ministers from all 27 Member States of the European Union signed the Berlin Declaration on Digital Society. […]
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We would like to invite you to the Virtual Town Hall Meeting ‘Human-Centric Digital Government in Practice’ that the Co-VAL project is organizing with the Lisbon Council, on Friday, December 11th 2020 at 12h00-13h00 CET. This highly interactive virtual event, convened in the immediate aftermath of the signing of the Berlin Declaration on Digital Society, will […]
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By Francesco Mureddu, director at the Lisbon Council, a leading Brussels-based think tank and partner of the Co-VAL project. Several European Member States have implemented a wide array of human centric public services focused on financially supporting citizens during the lockdown. In particular, Hungary, Greece, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark have implemented a set […]
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