Towards what's possible: Rebuilding public trust

Trust in government is wavering around the world. Fake news, conspiracies, and a business model of outrage has ended reasonable discourse and healthy compromise. We can disagree—but we must agree on how to resolve those disagreements if we are to function in modern society. How do we govern in a post-trust world, where facts compete with outrage?

The Civic Tech movement provides a possible solution. Working on the ground, hand-in-hand with public servants at the regional level, the Code for All movement spearheaded by Code for America has shown there’s a “third way” between public- and private-sector innovation. In this chat with FWD50 chair Alistair Croll, Code for America CEO Amanda Renteria looks at civic tech, trust in government, and how we need to talk more about what’s working and what’s possible if we want to regain support for the public square.