Universidad Torcuato di Tella (Torcuato Di Tella University)
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Jennifer Cyr is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Programmes in Political Science at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She researches and writes about representation, political identity, and institutional stability and change in Latin America; governance in a (post-)pandemic world; and qualitative and mixed methods. She has published two books and a wide variety of journal articles and book chapters. She has a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University, USA.
Asuntos del Sur
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Matías Bianchi is Director of Asuntos del Sur, an Argentina-based think/do tank that fosters more inclusive, equal, and democratic societies in Latin America. He coordinates two consortia: Colabora.Lat, which designs collaborative governance models for post-pandemic democracies, and CILA (Cities in Action), which works to develop civic infrastructure in cities that seek to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Matías has an MSc from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po (Paris, France). He is an instructor at the University of Arizona and also researches democracy, governance, and technopolitics.
Vice-Presidency of the Valencian Government
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Ignacio F. Lara has a BA from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, an MA in Markets and Institutions of the Global System from the Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations, Italy, and a PhD in Institutions and Politics from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy. He is currently Chief of Staff of the vice-presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana, Spain, and he lectures in diverse MA programmes in Italy and Argentina. He also has extensive work experience in the field of public administration and with projects with socio-political impact in Latin American non-governmental organisations.
Asuntos del Sur
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Florencia Coda is Project Manager at Asuntos del Sur. She has a degree in Political Science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a master’s degree in Political Science from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (in progress). She is a university lecturer and her work focuses on women’s reproductive rights and citizen participation.
Volume 54
Number 2
Published: October 19, 2023
Summary: Colabora.Lat is a project that examines the promise and the utility of collaboration for crafting better public policy in response to dynamic, complex problems such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Ultimately, in addition to being a project on collaboration, we found that the project itself was best carried out with our partners in a collaborative way. In this article, we identify four lessons that we learned as we sought to oversee a project on collaboration in a more collaborative way. These lessons should be applicable to any context that, like a pandemic, is unstable and dynamic in nature.
Resumen: Colabora.Lat es un proyecto que examina la promesa y la utilidad de la colaboración para elaborar mejores políticas públicas en respuesta a problemas dinámicos y complejos como la pandemia de Covid-19. En última instancia, además de ser un proyecto sobre colaboración, descubrimos que el desarrollo del proyecto en sí fluía mejor si trabajábamos con nuestros socios de forma colaborativa. En este artículo, identificamos cuatro lecciones que aprendimos al intentar supervisar un proyecto sobre colaboración de una forma más colaborativa. Estas lecciones deberían ser aplicables a cualquier contexto que, como una pandemia, sea de carácter inestable y dinámico.
Résumé : Colabora.Lat est un projet qui examine le sens et l'utilité de la collaboration afin d’élaborer de meilleures politiques publiques en réponse à des problèmes dynamiques et complexes tels que la pandémie de Covid-19. En plus d'être un projet sur la collaboration, nous avons constaté que le projet lui-même s’est déroulé de manière optimale avec nos partenaires dans un esprit de collaboration. Dans cet article, nous identifions quatre leçons que nous avons tirées lorsque nous avons cherché à superviser un projet de collaboration d'une manière plus collaborative. Ces leçons devraient être applicables à tout contexte qui, comme une pandémie, est instable et dynamique par nature.
