Hacking Democracy, Integration and the Labour Market
Sweden's annual political week – Almedalen – is a unique meeting place for individuals from all across society. During a week that is all about talking and politics, we wanted to switch focus to collaboration and solutions and find out how we can use rapid innovation processes to tackle large scale societal problems asking the question:
Can innovation processes like hackathons be used to address the complex, interconnected problems in society?
On July 6th 2018, we gathered people from all across society and facilitated the hackathon Från folkhemmet till Framtidslandet Sverige. The hack targeted three themes, critical for the future of Swedish society; Democracy, Integration and the Labour Market.
Participants were from different societal organisations, functions, political parties and backgrounds and had three hours to go from problem to prototype. The goal of the hack was to generate ideas that could be implemented in the near future and understood by all.
The Outcome
Each of the teams captured their ideas in prototype videos that were presented to a panel of judges. On the panel were Per Bolund, Deputy Finance Minister; Ann-Therese Enarsson, CEO of Futurion; Per Schlingmann, communications expert; Ishtar Touailat, Head of Innovation at Tieto and Ahmed Abdirahman, founder Järvaveckan and The Global Village.
“A Hackathon is creativity at its finest. You build from scratch, leverage collective intelligence, try, test and iterate. It’s a messy process but in a positive way.”
The jury together with Another Tomorrow’s team of facilitators