At lunchtime to an informal meeting, organised by the EESC’s President, Staffan Nilsson, in order to explore new ways of opening up the EESC in areas such as consultation, working methods and content delivery. The guest speaker today was Hannes Leo, an Austrian economist specialised in innovation policy, and also a delegate to the EESC’s Consultative Commission on Industrial Change. Leo explained a software development, Cbase, that allows the authors of documents to consult with colleagues on all parts of the document, paragraph by paragraph and, through an algorithm, to identify possible bases for compromise and consensus. An interesting tool for consultative work…