Mr. Radu Puchiu is a public policy and open government consultant with more than ten years of experience in the public sector. From 2012-2017, he was the Secretary of State in the Romanian Prime Minister’s Chancellery, where he managed strategies and public policy coordination. During this time, Mr. Puchiu also served as the National Coordinator for Open Government Partnerships and coordinator of five editions of the Government of Romania’s Official Internship Program. In 2016, he was selected by Res Publica, Google, Visegrad Fund, and the Financial Times as one of NewEurope100’s top innovation leaders in East and Central Europe. Mr. Puchiu is a graduate of the Design Academy in Bucharest and the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Open Data Leaders Network.

1. #RENEWTRUST
OPEN GOVERNMENT

3. DESIGNER / EXGOV OFFICIAL
RADU PUCHIU

4. FINDING THE BEST
SOLUTION TO THE
CONTEXT
HARMONISE WISHES,
RESTRICTIONS,
INTEGRITY, BUDGET ETC.
THROUGH DIALOG
Design Side

5. HUGE GAP BETWEEN
PROBLEMS AND
SOLUTIONS, BUDGET AND
RESULTS, RULES AND
INTEGRITY.
NO OR LIMITED
DIALOGUE
Public Administration Side

6. DO GOVERNMENTS HAVE A
DESIGN PROBLEM?

7. "MORE THAN HALF THE
COUNTRIES IN THE LATEST
UPDATE OF A
DEMOCRATIC-HEALTH
INDEX SAW THEIR SCORES
DECLINE”
The Economist Intelligence Unit

8. IF CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACIES ARE GOING TO
COMPETE WITH AUTOCRATIC SYSTEMS ON THE WORLD
STAGE WHILE AVOIDING THEIR OWN SUICIDE THROUGH
POLARIZATION AND PARALYSIS FUELED BY
UNTRUSTWORTHY INFORMATION, THEY NEED A RADICAL
RENOVATION THAT RESPONDS TO THE FORCES
UNDERMINING THEM.
ABOVE ALL, SUCH A RENOVATION MUST ENGAGE THE
PARTICIPATORY POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE
INCREASING PREFERENCE OF PUBLICS FOR DIRECT
DEMOCRACY BY DESIGNING NEW, IMPARTIAL
INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICES THAT INTERPOSE A
DELIBERATIVE CHECK AGAINST THE FALSE CLAIMS,
MISINFORMATION, INTOLERANCE AND MAGICAL
THINKING THAT COME ALONG WITH THE IMMEDIATE
WASH OF NETWORKED POPULAR SENTIMENT.
Nathan Gardels
Editor in Chief - The World Post/Washington Post

9. DO GOVERNMENTS HAVE A
TRUST PROBLEM?

12. THE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT CITIZENS
DON’T TRUST GOVERNMENT; THE BIGGEST
PROBLEM IS THAT THE GOVERNMENTS
DON’T TRUST THEIR CITIZENS.

13. OPEN GOVERNMENT WEEK
75 COUNTRIES/TENS OF EVENTS

14. OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
EMPOWERING CITIZENS
▸ in Uruguay, citizens confronted difficult challenges in making
informed choices about their family’s health because they did
not have good information about healthcare providers, and
yet, were locked into their healthcare provider for 3 years.
▸ As part of Uruguay’s OGP commitment, reformers in
government and civil society created a platform, A Tu Servicio,
that publishes vital healthcare information, enabling citizens
to track healthcare costs, compare providers, and view
treatment wait times online in order to make more informed
decisions about their family’s health.

15. OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
RATE THE PUBLIC SERVICES
▸ In the UK, the Friends and Family Test (FFT) is a feedback
tool that asks people if they would recommend the medical
services they have used.
▸ The FFT has produced around 25 million pieces of feedback
so far – and the total rises by over a million a month – making
it one of the biggest sources of patient opinion in the world.
▸ The results of the FFT are published every month, so
ordinary citizens can make informed choices about their
healthcare.

16. OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
SHAPE POLICIES
▸ in Estonia, following a wave of citizen protests in response
to a major party finance scandal, citizens crowd-sourced,
prioritised, and voted on key policy proposals to tackle the
roots of the problem using online and offline voting
through the Rahvakogu platform.
▸ This resulted in three citizen-led policies becoming law,
including reforms on political party financing and a public
petition system.

17. OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
BE INCLUSIVE
▸ the City of Austin in the United States has developed a
homelessness systems map, which identifies pain points
by crowdsourcing information from the homeless, service
providers, and the affected community, giving the
homeless and affected communities a voice so the city can
provide better quality services.

18. OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
FOLLOW PUBLIC MONEY
▸ in Ukraine, a group of young people created the ProZorro
platform to make each and every step of the public
procurement process transparent and open for monitoring
by anyone.
▸ This has allowed citizens to track all government contracts
and flag violations themselves - resulting in savings of over
$1 billion over two years.

19. CITIZENS ARE CAPABLE TO
GENERATE GOOD SOLUTIONS
FOR THEIR COMMUNITY

20. IT’S TIME FOR GOVERNMENTS
TO TRUST THEIR CITIZENS.
TEXT

21. #RENEWTRUST
IT’S TIME TO

22. #OPENGOV
RENEW TRUST WITH

23. THANK YOU!
Radu Puchiu
@radupuchiu