Making public policy more fun | Vasiliki (Vass) Bednar | TEDxToronto

An aggressive debater and playful inquisitor, Vass works at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy & Governance while enjoying an Action Canada fellowship. For fun (and so she can finally play), she's designing a Canadian board game that simulates policy-making in the federation that will highlight the joys of contemporary governance. When she's not playing basketball, reading Maclean's, or blogging, the McMaster Arts & Science graduate spends a lot of time thinking about why things are the way they are and how they can be better.

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[peacefulcalm]

A talk with some sassy style and substance. No idea why there aren't more views! Helpful from my public health perspective.

[violetteesalum]

Thoroughly makes sense as a policy student.

[tavanawisdom]

Wonderful speech and good points. Thanks for sharing. As a student of public policy, I really enjoyed it. Thanks

[sabrinalondon]

I have shown this to students two years in a row now. Thank you.

[mamiellaasmah]

Ted Ed is really amazing u get to learn better stuff than a lecture ever could
Please keep up that good work😍😀

[norazuradrahman]

I really enjoyed the way of presented it is fun and the points are easy to understand. Thanks for sharing

[anik]

Great points shared. Very innovative in the concept in itself.

[MarionPlank]

Thank you (I'm watching from work)

[Its_Atch]

fantastic idea. love your presentation!!!

[aeroumasmith]

I love her delivery. This is the kind of energy I want to embody

[AliciaK]

Did the policy-making simulator game ever get made? I would be interested in playing :)

[gianlucabeninati]

Does someone know any online forum, platform where to cultivate an interest in public policy ?

[raghavdembla]

She is easily one of the best communicators on TED

[softrock]

Still remember that evening you presented in your featured way on the stage of the Hart House cinema, to advocate political woman's leadership. "Good job, enjoyed" that was what I said to you. Like yesterday!

[marichia]

Very cool! But it is necessary to point out that, in order to develop the games, so that the population is participative, a state structure that provides a basis for knowledge, through Academys, through work experience. Still, the State is a fundamental part so that these public policies can be thought by the citizen. Here, where I'm talking from, the city the speaker spoke of, Porto Alegre in Brazil, she mentions the Participatory Budget (Orçamento Participativo), which was a public policy for the inclusion of society, but which today, in 2021, no longer exists. Unfortunately in Brazil, we are having a destructuring of our State, so we lost democracy because we lost more and more popular participation, which was already low!

[aniffatheqt]

In what countries do have that private app to let you know when the bus is arriving or where do clinics text patients when its their turn????

[Syf]

i didn't feel the 7 min! like it!

[carolinaarce]

por favor pongan subtitulos en español

[SikhTranslations]

Wicked Problems and general Policy intro

[soknya]

I think all governments around the world have the same problem, in some ways