David Pecotic

Canberra Area, Australia, ACT Australia

Innovation Advisor at Australian Government Department of Employment

"The potential for democratic renaissance will require a new type of public servant – no longer just the policy adviser, the legislative drafter, the regulator, the service provider or the contractor but the facilitator. The role of public servants will be to sit at the collaborative centre of a new public economy, actively encouraging flexibility, diversity, choice and innovation. They will need to build and sustain partnerships, through which to encourage, coordinate and evaluate a flow of creative ideas on how best to deliver the mandate of elected government. These will be public servants who take pride in operating at the centre of reinvigorated democratic processes. They will unders.