Charles Landry, author and president of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival,
talks to us about how the public sector has been weakened from within through
consistent reduction in its capacities and expertise. Cuts in analytical,
foresight and strategic entities have not gone unfelt in crises. Under pressure
to deliver, the public sector has been increasingly reaching to the market and
outsourcing work. Spending and over-reliance on external consultants have,
expectedly, mounted. Equally important is that such a trend has infantalized
the public sector and put it on an unequal footing – through imbalanced access
to intellectual resources and investments – with external consultants. Are
there ways out ? Find out in his discussion with UNESCO 's Iulia Sevciuc.