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Digital Dialogue #7: How to move from consultation to co-creation with (user) communities

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  •  10th November 2022
     4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

📅 10 November 2022 🕟16:00-17:00 CET (Central European Time).

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The International Civil Society Centre, in partnership with the Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN), is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a discussion titled How to move from consultation to co-creation with (user) communitiesas part of its #DigitalDialogues Series. 

Civil society organisations are innovators. They test new approaches to both traditional and emerging problems. Rapid digitalisation is one of today’s most prominent and influential global drivers of change, but decisions on how future digital development and data use proceed still sit almost exclusively with businesses, and to a lesser extent with governments. This feeds the equity gap between the privileged and the majority of humanity who remain unconnected. While civil society organisations have achieved some success in shifting power around these challenges, there remain significant opportunities to learn and benefit from the lessons others have encountered.   

In the third edition of the International Civil Society Centre Innovation Report: ‘Civil Society Innovation and Digital Power Shift , the risk of increased digital inequity is described but so are counter strategies that ensure that communities have access to digital infrastructures and learning how to build their own digital futures. Digital equity efforts must ensure that, as the relationship between technologies and communities evolves, they have the ongoing power to assume leadership in managing this relationship on their own terms, for their own needs, and with their own data. In our next Digital Dialogue, we will discuss ways to move from consultation and customisation to co-creation with (user) communities and partners. The fundamental Principle for Digital Development of ‘Design with the User’, and the importance of doing this iteratively throughout the programme, is well reflected throughout the case studies of our panellists, with strong feedback and monitoring processes across the lifecycle. 

CSOs have demonstrated the capacity to help connect communities in some of the most remote areas of the planet. Governments, business and civil society must work together to ensure that regulatory frameworks allow multiple types of actors to run a variety of non-profit, not-for-profit and for-profit business models to access internet spectrum licenses, build upon existing knowledge, and compete to deliver affordable internet access for all. 

In 2022 all Digital Dialogue panel discussions will be interpreted into International Sign Language and live captions.