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Tomas Rakos

Tomas Rakos joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Participation Factory and why fetishising a single method or tool is a bad idea.

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Donate on PayPal Interview with Tomas Rakos: automatic transcription, it may contain errors. Alessandro Oppo (00:00): Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator Podcast, and our guest today is Tomas Rakos. Welcome and thank you for your time. Tomas Rakos (00:07): Hi. Thank you too for having me. Alessandro Oppo (00:13): As a first question, what is Participation Factory? Tomas Rakos (00:20): Participation Factory is formally a company, but it's a group of people that decided to be working on impact through mainstreaming good participatory practices and work. We basically do four things in order to simplify that. We do a lot of participation designs, implementation of projects, or evaluation of any type of participatory process, mostly working for the public sector. Second, we also focus on systematic participation, meaning it's kind of change management type of work. We help local

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Tomas Rakos about Participation Factory and why fetishising a single method or tool is a bad idea