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Policy 2.0?Leaders in the Public Sector , May 2010Putting Strategic Policy Development into Action

Martin Stewart-WeeksDirector, Public Sector (Asia-Pacific), Internet Business Solutions Group

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A starting point?

Paul Baran’s Theory of Distributed Networks…the World of “Connectedness”


NATO‟s Policy Jam“An unusual online effort by NATO, the European Union, governments and research groups to ask a broader public for ideas on the future of Western security policy has produced a series of recommendations that call for NATO to develop a civilian arm and the European Union to create its own intelligence agency.

The discussion, called the 2010 Online Security Jam, brought together some 3,800 people with expertise or interest in trans-Atlantic security issues from 124 countries, who logged in over five days in February for thematic conversations led by many senior officials and scholars in Europe, Russia, China and the United States. “

4,000 participamts10,000 logins124 countries

5 days10 streams

26 online hosts75 facilitators

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/north_atlantic_treaty_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/european_union/index.html?inline=nyt-org

http://www.securitydefenceagenda.org/Publications/tabid/592/Default.aspx

http://www.securitydefenceagenda.org/Publications/tabid/592/Default.aspx


The context is getting tougher and more complicated

We have to try something different

There are new tools and capabilities that could make a difference

The demand for collaboration, transparency and participation is rising


The context is getting tougher and more complicated

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Node = a person

Line = a relationship between two people

“embedded”: the degree to which a person is connected within a network

more embedded = central

less embedded = periphery


I NEED – basic needs and requirements; basic services in health, education etc

I WANT – a consumerist approach – make it easy, convenient, suits my circumstances

I CAN – want to be engaged; co-creation; can do some of these things four ourselves<Charlie Leadbeater>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIfEUAYdrJQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIfEUAYdrJQ&feature=related

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lincolnian/223547716/


Taken from a presentation by Dr Rufus Black, University of Melbourne, 2009


The Next Government of the United StatesWhy our institutions fail us and how to fix themDonald F Kettl WW Norton 2009

This is an exceptionally dangerous combination: more problems require longer-term, crosscutting action; government has limited capacity for solving them; and failure to solve these problems exact higher costs. With the rise of networked governance, this dilemma is sure to grow. p95


Public goals have become far more entangled with the behaviour of private individuals and organisations outside of government. <Kettlp115>


There are other things happening to the context of policy making

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Public purpose


4: A new theory of the business


Government at the edge…

“We have grown used to the centre taking more and more of the decisions, despite the fact that in almost all cases the knowledge, expertise and experience required to inform those decisions are at the edge.”Beth Noveck, author of Wiki Government and Deputy CTO, Open and Transparent Government, The White House


Mass participation for new institutions

“The 21st century will be about divergent thinking, creating new choices, developing new solutions through integrative thinking, and balancing opposites…we need new ways of pooling diverse knowledge and tools that are simple to use and draw people in.

…participatory systems will, by the middle of this century, seem as "normal" as global bureaucracies or corporations seem today. ”

Hillary Cottam, Participle

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Participatory+systems:+moving+beyond+20th+century...-a0219900487






Fine, but…

…. It wasn‟t anything like a coherent debate. It was just lots of people airing their particular grievances and a few short-lived one-on-one debates which petered out and then reoccurred with different participants who hadn‟t noticed the same debate 50 comments earlier. It‟s what happens on all popular Internet forums:

overwhelming mess and endless repetition. The Internet has allowed huge numbers of people to come together at the same time, but we haven‟t learnt how to actually talk to one another on that scale. We can‟t have any kind of mass-participation in government unless we solve that problem.

http://www.governingpeople.com/Home/23159

http://www.governingpeople.com/Home/23159


We have to try something different

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Web 2.0

Collaborate don‟t control

Improvise, share, play, collaborate

Users build value, the technology can let them in

Be modular: use others‟ stuff, let them use yours

Build for user value


US Patent Office - Peer to Patent




http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/prototype/

http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/prototype/


http://72.167.189.5/Project/index.gsp?projectID=RAHS

http://72.167.189.5/Project/index.gsp?projectID=RAHS







The Green Economy Toolkit

…will be a web-based, community-powered aggregator of well-researched, practical ideas an intelligent and purposeful exchange of ideas can take place that can inform the debate that will affect policy decisions that affect the environment, our society and the economy.


The Tanta Effect

“Blogging „turbocharged‟ the ecology of intellectual discussion – enabling us to tap into the insights of people who would never have received the attention they were due back in the old days where reputations took a decade or more to build and were corralled into specialisms with little cross fertilisation and „contestability‟ between them.”Nicholas Gruen


Growing interest in competitions, prizes and „challenges‟…this one is from the UK as part of the Power of Information Task Force on Implementation



Prospects, possibilities and principles

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Common principles

Harnessing distributed intelligence and empowerment

Creating social capital to fuel innovation and invention, and

Creating new platforms to more effectively connect people, knowledge and services.

TransparencyParticipationCollaboration


Policy Rethink?

Framing

Expertise

Systematic serendipity

Communities and networks, as well as organisations and institutions

Capability (internal and external)

Policy as „permanent beta‟?

Feedback, performance and change…


Reliable, Relevant, Replicable, Responsive, Respected


Institutions exist to sustain the problems they were set up to solve.

(Clay Shirky)


1. Organising without organisations

2. The network knows more than we do

3. Contribution, not status…a form of “reputational democracy”

4. How do we de-massify government without losing the capacity for scale? (Pebbles, not boulders…”mass localism” (Charlie Leadbeater, NESTA…)

5. More expert, more democratic


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Documents

new theory

new solutions

new tools

new choices

transparent government

new institutionsthe

broader public

context of policy