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Mariana Mazzucato

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
449 total appearances

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What are the missions that will help us achieve that?

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And that's where then the healthy, tasty, sustainable school meals policy came from.

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We worked with them on that also in Brazil.

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We just actually put out a report about this with the World Food Program.

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But what was interesting, again, was that then that required government to work in a different way.

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Again, interministerially.

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you know, catalyzing bottom-up experimentation, local manufacturing, but through also the redesign of the tools themselves.

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The UK, which I don't think is a very good example right now.

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I mean, there's lots of instability.

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There's also been, you know, 14 years of austerity.

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Some things that were really interesting, and this is why I look more at the organizational kind of examples, was government digital services, GDS, which basically began by government

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back in the early 2000s saying, why does everyone have to go to, say, Google to download a white paper?

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Why don't we have our own kind of digital platform?

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They did what most governments do, outsourced it to a company called Serco, which is not a very innovative company at all, gets lots of government contracts.

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They failed miserably.

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And then people from the iPlayer team and the BBC

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said, we'll do it.

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So they went over to the cabinet office, set up government digital services, came up with this incredible digital platform called gov.uk, which won an international design award.

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But what was interesting to me from that example was that the first thing they did was look out the window and said, with arrows,

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pointing out the window, those are not clients and customers.