The Directorate of Prospective of the Office of the President of the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya), the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Agirre Lehendakaria Center (ALC) are collaborating in the design of new spaces to address complex challenges, which require advanced experimentation and new adaptive and anticipatory governance models. These spaces can benefit from AI to manage issues such as intelligent mapping, agent-based simulations, or advanced analytics of citizen perceptions.

Agirre Lehendakaria Center accompanied the BSC in the workshop that served as a first contact for the design of subsequent spaces with specific and diverse agents. ALC presented the social innovation approach based on the cultural dimension of this type of process. Understanding the complexity of this topic, exploring collaborations, and developing a portfolio of prototypes is key to generating systemic impact. To this end, it focuses on two specific areas of action: on the one hand, the collection, cataloging and analysis of data, including perceptions; and, on the other hand, safe spaces for experimentation.

Likewise, the seminar led by the BSC was presented by Mercè Crosas, Director of the Area of Computational Social Sciences, as well as with the Directorate of Prospective of the Generalitat, led by Beth Espinalt and Jordi Vergès, which aims to work with this approach on specific issues, and the Mastercard one, represented by Simon Willis, Global Vice President of Innovation with Public Entities, interested in public-private data collaborations for social purposes. Finally, the Institute of Government and Public Policies of Catalonia - IGOP, led by Joan Subirats, Marta Cruells and Jaume Blasco presented their work and the connections with all the above elements.