The creatives trying to fix Germany's bureaucracy
Key takeaways
- Berlin played host to the 9th annual Creative Bureaucracy Festival this week, where highly-motivated public service workers explained why a healthy democracy needs a functioning state.
- But not just any bureaucrats — these were "creative bureaucrats," a term that sounds like more of a paradox than it should, since the public sector has seen much innovation in recent years.
- That at least is the view of the attendees of the Berlin's Creative Bureaucracy Festival, now in its ninth year, which claims to be the world's largest festival for public service innovation.
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Berlin played host to the 9th annual Creative Bureaucracy Festival this week, where highly-motivated public service workers explained why a healthy democracy needs a functioning state.
https://p.dw.com/p/5FLYg Public service workers got together at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Kreuzberg Image: Ben Knight/DWAdvertisement Most nights, the Festsaal Kreuzberg is a concert venue in one of Berlin's cooler districts, but this week it was taken over by bureaucrats. But not just any bureaucrats — these were "creative bureaucrats," a term that sounds like more of a paradox than it should, since the public sector has seen much innovation in recent years.
That at least is the view of the attendees of the Berlin's Creative Bureaucracy Festival, now in its ninth year, which claims to be the world's largest festival for public service innovation. Some might say there's an irony to the fact that the event has found a home in Berlin, whose creaky and underfunded bureaucracy has become a hoary joke.