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Davenport, Stephen

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Government Technology, Open Government, Transparency, Citizen Engagement, Public Participation, Tax Administration, Fiscal Policy
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U. of Texas
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Last updated: January 31, 2023
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Stephen Davenport is currently the Global Lead for Anticorruption, Openness, and Transparency at the World Bank Group. He works on various projects related to Open Government and GovTech, and co-leads the Innovation in Tax Compliance program, which promotes strategies to engender greater trust in tax administrations. He has more than 20 years of experience in program innovation, development, fundraising, communications, client relationship management, and delivery of e-Government services. Stephen has worked in partnership with the USAID, the World Bank, the International Aid Transparency Initiative, Open Aid Partnership, Open Contracting Partnership, and the Open Government Partnership to accomplish his goals for greater transparency in international development. Stephen has also led breakthrough innovations including the creation of the OpenGov Hub in Washington, DC, the co-creation of FeedBack Labs, and AidData.

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    Coming Together While Staying Apart: Facilitating Collective Action through Trust and Social Connection in the Age of COVID-19
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020-07) Kallaur, Emily; Davenport, Stephen R.; Kunicova, Jana
    Facing the COVID-19 pandemic requires an unprecedented degree of cooperation between governments and citizens and across all facets of society to implement spatial distancing and other policy measures. This paper proposes to think about handling the pandemic as a collective action problem that can be alleviated by policies that foster trust and social connection. Policy and institutional recommendations are presented according to a three-layered pandemic response generally corresponding to short-, medium-, and long-term needs. This paper focuses on building connection and cooperation as means to bring about better health and socioeconomic outcomes. Many factors outside the paper’s scope, such as health policy choices, will greatly affect the outcomes. As such, the paper explores the role of trust, communication, and collaboration conditional on sound health and economic policy choices.