Hello, welcome to all the new subscribers! 🙌

Glad you could join us. I've found this past week a strange mix of screen fatigue and sleepless nights. But was hugely energised by our call this week. Let's get to it:

1. I think we're getting into the swing of things... our third How not to waste a crisis is Wednesday 15 April, sign up for the call right now. 💻

2. Thanks to Panthea, Penny, Angie and Louise for such a stimulating discussion on the new social contract. Read the notes or watch the recording of that call.

3.  How shall we handle risk in a time of crisis? Good question. Geoff Mulgan pens his thoughts for us.

4. A powerful quote to end on from Rebecca Solnit. Who wrote a nice piece on hope for The Guardian this week.

These times are a test of good leadership. But what does good leadership actually look like? For this session, we’ll focus on the type of leadership this pandemic is calling for. We’ll also explore how governments can handle the uncertainty and ambiguity they face. What can we learn from that and take with us into the future? We’re looking forward to you joining us.

📝 We've opened a shared google doc to start the conversation in. 

We are lucky to be joined by Christian Bason CEO of Danish Design Centre, Andrea Siodmok, the Director of the UK Policy Lab & Sam Hannah-Rankin, Executive Director Public Sector Reform, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria Government.
 

 15 April 2020 at 15:00 CET (Central European Time). 

The scale of the pandemic is enormous. And yet... the response has often been hyper-local. Street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood. How do we maintain the social infrastructure that supports that to flourish? And how do we make sure that the risk of this crisis is not pushed down to the most vulnerable? The BBC news presenter Emily Maitlis captures this succinctly.

Would really give the notes below a full read, the conversation was rich on the challenges facing communities who've never really had a social contract. On how to bridge the distrust between those communities and governments with the resources to help (see image above). Plus, we covered the importance of living your values in the small ways as well as the large, looking for ways to (re) connect, remembering to ask each other 'how are you feeling?'. So, dear readers, how are you feeling? Hit reply and let me know.
 

📝  Read the notes of call #2

📺 Watch the recording on Zoom