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Creativity Cooperation Committee”.
stimulate senior officials to take
The committee is jointly participated
imaginative and creative actions. The
by multiple cross-cutting regional
contribution of committee in terms
governments. They cooperate with
of constructing public participation
each other in creative projects of
mechanism comes from two aspects:
public policy-making, and mainly deal
one is the construction of route in
with the shortage of coordination in
obtaining information from top to
carrying out creative policies. As a
down; the other is the construction of
transverse organization, the committee
platform sending information from
does not respond to any department,
down to top. As to obtain information
aiming at breaking the logic of
from top to down, senior officials of
partitioning structure, no longer being
the committee (mayor, cabinet minister
subject to the government structural
and senior officers of the municipal
organization.
government) and experts will conduct
One of the major purposes of
inspection in relevant places, and
setting up “Innovation and Creativity
convene meetings at regular intervals.
Cooperation Committee” is to facilitate
Often, they would be inspired by the
the frank dialogue between municipal
situation of places being inspected,
government and citizens, so as to
and then make corresponding policies. Apart from that, they always report local and international news to mayor, cabinet minister and senior officers of the municipal government, which serves as the basis of decision making. The committee members solicit public opinions through field research, and then discuss the information they obtained or further report the information to integrate public opinion into decision making process. In this way, a route of information transfer is formed from down to top.
□ Collaborative Roundtable of Buenos Aires members have a meeting with the president of Cabinet
On the other hand, the committee, through promoting or stepping in