About GovTech Sweden
GovTech Sweden creates, develops and supports an ecosystem for GovTech in Sweden to provide the conditions for a value-creating digital transformation. People, technology and planet.
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Goal/challenge
The City Executive Board in Gothenburg decided that Gothenburg should have no areas of social exclusion by 2025. GovTech Sweden, Drivhuset Göteborg, Vocean, Yesbox and Framtiden wanted to join forces to reach that goal. With the question “How do we create the world’s best place for children and young people to grow up in?” we wanted to Engage for Change and involve children, young people, civil society, entrepreneurs, adults working with children and young people in the areas, and even the whole world. The goal was shared. Now we wanted to give more people a voice. And then co-create based on the ideas to make the best solutions possible.
Solution
We created and ran the World’s Largest Workshop. The world’s largest because the digital innovation platform made it possible for everyone to take part. The world’s largest because it went on for five months. The world’s largest because it was about a globally important challenge and goal.
With a lot of engagement and heart from people, we collected 300 ideas in one month that everyone could follow in real time. Through the Innovation Lab during Sweden’s Innovation Week, we co-created with the ideas and developed 10 different clusters, again through people’s engagement and Vocean’s digital strategic support.
In and between these clusters, mutual understanding was created with the help of the 300 ideas, and the nearly 5,000 interactions gave the opportunity to review results together, take on the challenge together and drive innovation. The result was: the Future Bus, the Future Sailing and the Skill Bank.
Benefits
- Unlimited collection of ideas, where more than 90 languages can be used. Easy via phone and QR code.
- Ideas and interactions online in real time made co-creation possible beyond time and space.
- Support in clustering and evaluating the ideas made shared understanding and brilliant solutions possible for children and young people in their own neighbourhood.
In brief
Challenges
- Give everyone a voice
- Turn ideas into reality
- Create hope for the future
Benefits
- Solutions that benefited children and young people
- Learning through co-creation to meet challenges
The World’s Largest Workshop took place during the democracy year 2021, the same year Tusse won Melodifestivalen with Voices.
You can watch several videos from the World’s Largest Workshop on YouTube:
