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Rudi Borrmann (he/him)

Deputy Director, OGP Local

Rudi joined OGP in March 2020 and leads OGP’s work at the local level, helping to accelerate impact and reforms where government is closer to citizens by supporting strategic national-local integration, enhancing subnational participation in OGP and improving knowledge and learning opportunities for open government reformers.

Previous to this role he was Undersecretary of Public Innovation and Open Government at the Cabinet Office of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. In this position, Rudi was in charge of the National Open Government Strategy, developing Argentina’s first open data infrastructure, establishing open government reforms with three open state action plans and running LABgobAR (the National Government Lab) to support capacity building and innovation projects using user-centered design with more than 30.000 government officials involved. In 2018 he chaired the Digital Economy task force during Argentina’s presidency of the G20. In 2012 he founded the Buenos Aires Innovation Lab, led the city’s Open Government project and was part of the very first new media office of Latin America, three pioneers projects in Argentina.

Sessions

FWD50 in the Mix

Adapting to a new digital reality: Working in the open to build more resilient democracies

Melanie Robert, in conversation with Rudi Borrman and Joe Powell will aim to highlight a number of concrete approaches that demonstrate how countries around the world are using digital tools to engage their citizens and include them as part of their decision-making processes. See More.