A 1-day opportunity for EU policy-makers and civil society change-makers on how to harness Smarter Crowdsourcing for stronger EU policies and democracy.

In the wake of the International Democracy Day, the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS), Dreamocracy, and Smarter Together will present the potential of advanced forms of crowdsourcing for public administration and democracy at EU-level.

Participants will test out new innovative methods and learn how to:
– Co-produce solutions on complex policy issues at EU level
– Combine expert-based crowdsourcing with problem solving and scenario planning
– Integrate the agility and diversity of crowdsourcing with careful curation of expertise
– Produce policy relevant forecasts thanks to large numbers of guesses
– Mobilise citizens to help monitor the implementation of EU policies

Public authorities dealing with urgent crises need agile solutions to identify expertise quickly. Also, the complex challenges that our democracies are facing require fast and creative thinking. Fresh scientific insights, new methodologies and technologies help better address public problems, by tapping into stakeholders’ and citizens’ insights and the famed “wisdom of crowds”.

Better integrating cognitive diversity can help improve the effectiveness and legitimacy of public administration. This has been proven to be very effective for instance for public health policies for which crowdsourcing methods have been used extensively during the Covid pandemic.