“We live in a world that is constantly experiencing multiple crises. Over the past decade they’ve chased one another, demanding solutions that are flexible and oriented to current issues and needs, to technological and other changes. That is exactly what intelligent governance is for: a form of governance that brings communities and other stakeholders into decision-making, seeking expert knowledge and consulting, collaborating,” explains Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė, Head of the Department of Sociology at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) and Acting Director of the Vytautas Kavolis Institute for Interdisciplinary Research. Together with other experts from Lithuania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she took part in the scientific conference “Human and More-Than-Human Futures: Innovating Technologies for Coexistence” in Vilnius and Kaunas.

The researcher notes that intelligent governance means a mode of governing that involves not only companies or institutions, but also ordinary citizens and representatives from different fields: experts and communities.