OPEN GOVERNMENT AND
THE NEW CULTURE OF ADMINISTRATION:
HEAR, UNDERSTAND, ACT
27-28
APRIL
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-PRACTICAL CONFERENCE
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, with the support of the Agency for Civil Service Affairs and the participation of the Astana Public Service Hub, is holding an international scientific and practical conference: “Open government and a new management culture: hear, understand, act”.
The purpose of the conference: discussion of current issues of public administration and development of practical recommendations.
The conference is devoted to the theoretical and practical aspects of the modernization of the public administration system, the formation of a service state apparatus, a new political culture, the ideology of partnership and mutual responsibility of citizens, non-governmental organizations, the business community and the state.
KEY THEMES
Issues for discussion:
- International and domestic practice of implementing the “Open Government”;
- a strategy for the formation of a “hearing state” in Kazakhstan;
- Aspects of the formation of the model of the “Digital State” and Invisible Government;
- Debureaucratization mechanisms, artificial intelligence and the human factor in the provision of public services.
- Discussion of cybersecurity issues, ways to prevent threats in the defense of national interests
Issues for discussion:
- The image of a civil servant;
- Professional and personal development of civil servants;
- The use of strategic HR management in public administration;
- Introduction of participatory budgeting mechanisms. The role of state budgets in the development of regions and local communities
Issues for discussion:
- from an open government to an open society – the search for effective social tools for interaction;
- the role of public councils in the implementation of the principles of open government at the national level;
- dialogue of key actors – civil society, business and the state;
- public councils: social control in public administration
PROGRAM
SPEAKERS
Rae Kwon Chung
Professor, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 2007, as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Daniel Nelson
Director of Accelerated Learning and Global Engagement for the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, USA
Wladyslaw Sokolowski
Statesman and public figure, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Republic of Poland
Aleksandar Marinov
Chairman of the Strategic Council under the President of Bulgaria, Adviser to the Prime Minister, Professor in Public Administration and Political Science at Sofia University
Michaela Friberg-Storey
United Nations Resident Coordinator for Kazakhstan
Dr Noore Alam Siddiquee
Professor in Public Administration at the Graduate School of Public Policy (GSPP), Nazarbayev University
Saltanat Janenova
Professor at The School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK.
Timur Suleimenov
First Deputy Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Darkhan Zhazykbayev
Chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs
Altair Akhmetov
Head of the Public Administration Department of the Executive Office of the President
Salauat Muksimov
Deputy Chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs
Dmitriy Malakhov
First Deputy Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Yerlan Abil
Rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Aizhan Zhatkanbayeva
Judge of the Сonstitutional Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Alikhan Baimenov
The Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Astana Civil Service Hub
Aliya Mustafina
Director of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Rakhim Oshakbayev
Director of TALAP Center for Applied Research
Didar Smagulov
Executive director of public organization «Adildik Zholy»
Aslanbek Jakupov
General Director of the National Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Mirbolat Zhakypov
Chairman of the NGO “Branch Professional Union of Employees of state, banking institutions and Public Services”
Dinara Sadvakassova
Deputy director institutes a public policy of the party of «Amanat»
Madiyar Kozhakhmet
Chairman of the Committee on Civil Society Affairs of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Ileuova Gulmira
Head of the public Foundation Center for Social and Political Studies “Strategy”
Natalia Kalashnikova
Head of the Department of the APK of the L.N. Gumilyov ENU, Chairman of the NGO Association of Departments of the APK “Shanyrak”, Doctor of Political Sciences
Somon Ismatov
Vice-Rector for International Relations of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan
Sholpan Aitenova
Chief Executive Officer at Zertteu Research Institute
Gulnar Shushikova
Vice-Rector – Director of the Interdepartmental Research Institute of the Law Enforcement Academy under the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Alua Zholdybalina
Deputy Director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan