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• commented on Is Co-production the key to Public Services 2.0? over 2 years ago.

  We should explicitly postulate that co-production includes co-conception and co-decision making. To the latter: It's not only about more citizen input before the decision is made, it's also about back-sourcing decision making power to the citizens. Why should representatives be empowered to take decisions alone, when connectivity makes it possible for citizens to at least co-decide? Co-conception and co-decision making = participation, transparency, shared responsibility and accountabili...

• commented on The World grows a Planetary Skin over 2 years ago.

  Yes, let’s embrace the Planetary Skin project. If possible without repeating the Collateralized Debt Obligations failure, not because the computer programs that were assessing the risks were wrong (they were not), but because they didn’t take in consideration that humans are not only rational and might one day (and unfortunately they did) start to decide by the stomach and bring the system down. - When Joseph Weizenbaum died in March last year, he wouldn’t have thought tha...

• commented on The World grows a Planetary Skin over 2 years ago.

  "The surface of the earth is alive with motions too subtle for direct human observation, the slow wrinkling of the planetary skin, that pose considerable risks to cities and people. Slow shifts of the earth's plates regularly build up strains that cause earthquakes. Volcanoes swell before they explode. Glaciers move and polar ice packs break up as the earth warms, raising seas and threatening to flood coastal areas." one could read Sep 3 1996 in The New York Times. This was also the day&...

• commented on Draft Whitepaper on Government 2.0 over 3 years ago.

  The diagonal look at the paper might have let me miss a reference to President elect Obamas vision and promise to use technology for intensive, transparent interaction between the future US federal government and the citizens.

• created Networks excel over 3 years ago.

  A system is characterized by a network of – equal or different – parts and their organization. The more complex a system is, the more dynamic, chaotic, intense and manifold are its interactions with and between its parts and the higher is its capability to organize itself. Traditional administrations are systems with narrow focus and low permeability oriented to reduce complexity. They are efficient in solving basic issues effectively. On the other hand, in hierarchal, rigid structures compl...