Ash Institute For Democratic Governance And Innovation, Harvard University has joined hands with Rai Foundation for the South Asian Regional Forum of the Global Network of Government Innovators. The four-day event, from September 26-29, 2007, at Rai Foundation, Delhi, aims to take a closer look at governance and more importantly, innovations in governance. Citizens now expect and demand more transparency, accountability, social justice and better services in education, healthcare, etc. from their elected representatives. It is a complex task requiring ingenuity and innovation on the part of governments to deal with the ever-increasing expectations on them. People are today more aware of their rights and that makes matters all the more difficult. Some innovations that are to be taken up during the course of the event include: How to increase citizen trust, what are governments doing to deal with emergencies and natural disaster better, what measures are local governments taking to create transparency and accountability and what initiatives should governments contemplate to promote social justice.