Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption - New Frontiers in Public-Private Partnerships

Introduction

Initiatives towards improving governance and fighting corruption need to encourage participation beyond today's leaders, to those of the future. Tomorrow's leaders are those students currently in business schools and universities around the world. It is therefore important to create spaces for these future leaders to continue their dialogue and transform their thoughts into actions.

In this videoconference marathon spanning the globe over the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) and the Global Classroom Initiative, more than 500 students from 65 business schools and universities in 35 countries took part in discussion and role-play on the topic of corruption and good governance. The videoconference took place in twelve consecutive two-hour sessions in an interpretation booth separated from the conference room by only a few centimeters of glass.

Initiatives towards improving governance and fighting corruption need to encourage participation beyond today's leaders, to those of the future. Tomorrow's leaders are those students currently in business schools and universities around the world. It is therefore important to create spaces for these future leaders to continue their dialogue and transform their thoughts into actions. By allowing students to intervene into a real-world, high-level policy discussion with concrete recommendations and their own experiences, this videoconference created a new kind of bottom-up feedback into development initiatives.

Required reading for the videoconference:

A short video impression of the 24h Videoconference:
24h Global Videoconference - Windows Media Video
24h Global Videoconference - Real Video