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Manifesto Writing is an Underappreciated Art
I do not agree with everything Umair Haque says, but on the 10th anniversary of the cluetrain manifesto and the 502nd anniversary of the 95 theses, it does make sense to read-write another manifesto. Manifesto writing, actually, has been an … Continue reading
Structuring Deliberation 2.0
Whenever I have talked to government officials in 2009 (in Cancun, Erfurt, Vienna, Salzburg, or Washington DC), at some point in the conversation they mention that “we need to develop new modes of interacting with citizens.” Implicit in this argument … Continue reading
Lessons from Information Revolution 1.0
Whenever I teach in Erfurt at our planetary school of public policy, I live at the monastery where Martin Luther lived, before he started his career as a professor in Wittenberg. The Augustine monastery has been transformed into an upscale … Continue reading
Reflecting the Rise of the Ideation Platform
The following entry was written by Justus Lenz with Philipp Mueller: ———————————————————- One of the “Web 2.0-type” concepts for a (semi-)structured citizen e-participation are ideation platforms. The aim of these platforms is to tap into the wisdom of crowds to … Continue reading
Pulling the Rug From Under Classical Strategy
The following guest blog was written by Sofia Elizondo from the BCG Strategy Institute. She is a long term member of the Shaping-Network-Society community and is looking forward to your comments. She has outlined several future entries, so there is … Continue reading
“…It is not deliberation!”
In the following video Beth Noveck outlines her vision for a world where public value is created by self-selected experts collaborating on platforms that mirror the collaboration process back to the participants: LInk This is new political theory, counter-intuitive from … Continue reading
The Age of Engineering
Engineering is defined by a focus on the world in the “ends-means” binary: what means allow me to reach the end efficiently? So are we moving into a new age of engineering? Auren Hoffman wrote an interesting article at Techcrunch … Continue reading
The Economics of Abundance
As you are waiting for your Amazon Prime Shipment of Chris Anderson’s Free: The Economics of Abundance and Why Zero Pricing Is Changing the Face of Business, read an excerpt in Wired. Our brains seem wired to resist waste, but … Continue reading
Inventing the Future
As we are trying to understand and predict the impact of social media on our societies, it makes sense to go back to Alan Kay’s remark at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1971. Don’t worry about what anybody … Continue reading
Revisiting the Death of New Public Management
In this “breathless” time where new conceptual frameworks emerge by the minute, it makes sense to step back and reflect on our thinking of… last week. In the “revisiting” series, I want to point to some of the older postings … Continue reading
