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Experimental Government - Testing Basic Income in Finland

By Nesta

Date and time

Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:00 - 14:30 GMT

Location

Nesta

1 Plough Place London EC4A 1DE United Kingdom

Description

Please join us at this event to discuss the Finnish experiment with basic income and examine how governments can organise themselves to conduct and learn from social policy experiments.

At this event, Geoff Mulgan will be discussing the experiment with Roope Mokka who’s been advising the Finnish Government on how to develop a model for including experiments and behavioural approaches into Finnish policy design. This discussion will be relevant to those with an interest in evidence based policy making, public service reform, universal basic income and welfare reform.

Finland is the first country to experiment with basic income on a large scale. From next year, up to 150,000 people will be receiving a basic income as part of this experiment. This marks a new chapter in the history of governance and policy making in Finland that instead of blindly rolling out social policies without evidence of what works – on health, or education or the environment – it will now experiment, measure and scale.

It will take a systematic approach to experimentation, testing things out and then seeing what works before rolling policies out nationally. But what are the prospects for a similar experiment with basic income in the UK? How have experiments with a basic income worked elsewhere?

Speakers include:

  • Roope Mokka, Founder, Demos Helsinki
  • Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive, Nesta

Registration and lunch opens at 12.00 with the event starting promptly at 13.00. The event is followed by networking and refreshments until 14.30.

Please see below our terms and conditions:

a. Please let us know if you have any additional requirements (access, vision, hearing, diet). We will make every effort to accommodate requests although we cannot guarantee that these will be met.

b. The event may be recorded and photographs taken which may be used to promote Nesta and our activities. Please let us know on arrival if you do not want to appear in photos or recordings of the event.

c. We reserve the right to deny entry should you:

  • fail to arrive within 15 minutes of start time;
  • fail to show a valid printed or electronic ticket on arrival.
  • fail to advise in advance of substitute details.

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