online networks and emergence in public policy: homesteading the frontiers of governance

Online networks and emergence in public policy: homesteading the frontiers of governance

Alberto Cottica

2005: hey, that’s a cool tool!

Native support for groups AND conversation

Interaction + scale = emergent phenomena

Can we do mesolevel policy?

P2P assistance to creative business startup

Launched spring 2008

3K users, 450 projects, tens of cool businesses!

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The best ideas stay away from public funding

“Success breeds success” in main cities

Kublai Camp 2009 Kublai Camp 2011 administrative uncertainty starts

“We don’t like the way you run things”

Did we get it wrong?

Policy needs to meet exogenous goals

Online networks steer by endogenous social dynamics

A fundamental tension: directedness vs. emergence

Policy as enabler: shaping the fitness landscape

For the frontier to keep advancing

There is a price to pay

Rethink government

Governance is not a machine

It is more like an ecosystem

(btw, rethink evaluation too)

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Launch: November 2011

47 countries, 200 languages

Youth from problem generation to explorers

The world’s largest policy think tank

Augmented ethnoghraphy

Scalable social bargain

Evolving software for policy making in networks

Thank you for listening :-)

Alberto Cottica – alberto@cottica.net