internet and the city: the role of governments dr geoff mulgan director, strategy unit
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Internet and the City: the role of governments
Dr Geoff Mulgan
Director, Strategy Unit
What I’ll cover ...
1. The impact of knowledge
2. The impact of new connections
3. Networks, risk and power
4. The changing role of governance at all levels
Connectedness
The Net is part of a broader process of rising connectedness - in trade, culture, people - that is transforming the tasks and tools of governance of cities and nations
• Near exponential growth in production of knowledge – source of 50-80% of economic growth
• Long time-scales (40-70 years) associated with transformative technologies (internal combustion, electricity, IT, biotech) because of need for both technology maturation and social and organisational innovation
• Full impact of knowledge intensity and high connectivity only now coming into view - eg land use, health delivery, traffic management, public engagement
1. Connectedness is inseparable from the impact of knowledge
•Nanotechnology Pervasive computing•Ambient IT Virtual reality•SMART devices Artificial intelligence•Virtual reality Cognitive systems•The Grid Quantum technology
But timescales, prospects and likely diffusion of
these still uncertain. Marvin Minsky: “Any five-year
old can convince its parents to do anything, and the
most powerful computer still can’t do that”
Broad patterns of technological diffusion fairly clear …
• Viable business models for the net• Robust approaches to privacy, anonymity, regulation
and protection of children• Organisational forms that make full use of IT• Public service models making full use of networks• Collaborative learning models making full use of
networks• Unique identifiers and biometrics – handling ID theft• Viable intellectual property rights, effective globally
and evolving open systems• E govt
Still awaiting key social and organisational innovations
2. Connectedness brings with it a rise in flows and links
• Economy – trade, FDI, currency flows
• Environment – emissions, waste
• Migration – legal and illegal
• Communications and culture - information and memes
• Governance – IGOs and INGOs
• Civic organisation - speed and spread of activism
• Crime - rising wealth and power of transnational organised crime
Flows of goods, money, information, people, drugs &c through hub cities
SouthPacificOcean
NorthPacificOcean
IndianOcean
Arctic Ocean
SouthAtlanticOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
CocaineHeroin
Women and childrenIllegal immigrants
Coca growing areaOpium poppygrowing area
Growing impact of urban life on the environment (and new urban solutions like congestion charging)
Source: IPCC
Widening span of local connections
Average number of miles travelled
Average no.of milestravelled
24
6
810
12
14
LEISURE
Move house13.5 miles
LIVING
SHOPPING
Restaurant8 miles
Average commute8.1 miles
Theatre12.6 miles
Carrepairs
5.3 miles
Furniture/carpets
8.9 miles
Computerequipment8.5 miles
Smallelectrical5.3 miles
Clothes8.8 milers
Majorelectrical7.3 miles
DIY /Garden items
5.2 miles
Cinema6.8 miles
Gym/health club3.1 miles
Groceries3.5 milesHOME
KEY:
Lookfor new car13.5 miles
School* 3.1 miles
* Figure relatesto secondaryschool.Primary schoolis 1.3 miles onaverage.
Source: DETR/ ONS/ Newspaper Society / The Future Foundation
New patterns of exclusion - being cut off and dynamic poverty
Children in workless households
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
millio
ns
Source: Labour Force Survey, Spring Quarters ONS 2002 (www.poverty.org)
Sharper inequalities within cities
Kingston Kingston Kingston Kingston Kingston Kingston Kingston Kingston Kingston upon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thames
Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond upon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thamesupon Thames
HaringeyHaringeyHaringeyHaringeyHaringeyHaringeyHaringeyHaringeyHaringey
Waltham ForestWaltham ForestWaltham ForestWaltham ForestWaltham ForestWaltham ForestWaltham ForestWaltham ForestWaltham Forest
RedbridgeRedbridgeRedbridgeRedbridgeRedbridgeRedbridgeRedbridgeRedbridgeRedbridge
NewhamNewhamNewhamNewhamNewhamNewhamNewhamNewhamNewham
Barking Barking Barking Barking Barking Barking Barking Barking Barking and Dagenhamand Dagenhamand Dagenhamand Dagenhamand Dagenhamand Dagenhamand Dagenhamand Dagenhamand Dagenham
LambethLambethLambethLambethLambethLambethLambethLambethLambeth
SouthwarkSouthwarkSouthwarkSouthwarkSouthwarkSouthwarkSouthwarkSouthwarkSouthwark
WandsworthWandsworthWandsworthWandsworthWandsworthWandsworthWandsworthWandsworthWandsworth
Tower Tower Tower Tower Tower Tower Tower Tower Tower HamletsHamletsHamletsHamletsHamletsHamletsHamletsHamletsHamlets
GreenwichGreenwichGreenwichGreenwichGreenwichGreenwichGreenwichGreenwichGreenwich
Kensington Kensington Kensington Kensington Kensington Kensington Kensington Kensington Kensington and Chelseaand Chelseaand Chelseaand Chelseaand Chelseaand Chelseaand Chelseaand Chelseaand Chelsea
Hammersmith Hammersmith Hammersmith Hammersmith Hammersmith Hammersmith Hammersmith Hammersmith Hammersmith and Fulhamand Fulhamand Fulhamand Fulhamand Fulhamand Fulhamand Fulhamand Fulhamand Fulham
WestminsterWestminsterWestminsterWestminsterWestminsterWestminsterWestminsterWestminsterWestminster
IslingtonIslingtonIslingtonIslingtonIslingtonIslingtonIslingtonIslingtonIslingtonCamdenCamdenCamdenCamdenCamdenCamdenCamdenCamdenCamden
HackneyHackneyHackneyHackneyHackneyHackneyHackneyHackneyHackney
EalingEalingEalingEalingEalingEalingEalingEalingEaling
HounslowHounslowHounslowHounslowHounslowHounslowHounslowHounslowHounslow
LewishamLewishamLewishamLewishamLewishamLewishamLewishamLewishamLewisham
SuttonSuttonSuttonSuttonSuttonSuttonSuttonSuttonSutton
MertonMertonMertonMertonMertonMertonMertonMertonMerton
BexleyBexleyBexleyBexleyBexleyBexleyBexleyBexleyBexley
BromleyBromleyBromleyBromleyBromleyBromleyBromleyBromleyBromleyCroydonCroydonCroydonCroydonCroydonCroydonCroydonCroydonCroydon
BrentBrentBrentBrentBrentBrentBrentBrentBrent
HillingdonHillingdonHillingdonHillingdonHillingdonHillingdonHillingdonHillingdonHillingdon
HarrowHarrowHarrowHarrowHarrowHarrowHarrowHarrowHarrow
BarnetBarnetBarnetBarnetBarnetBarnetBarnetBarnetBarnet
EnfieldEnfieldEnfieldEnfieldEnfieldEnfieldEnfieldEnfieldEnfield
HaveringHaveringHaveringHaveringHaveringHaveringHaveringHaveringHavering
Schools Facing Challenging Circumstances
Challenging Circumstances (109)
London LEAs EiC Phase
Phase 1 (16)Phase 2 (3)Phase 3 (2)
Secondary Schools failing to meet the Government’s floor target of 25% of pupils achieving 5 Good GCSEs or schools with more than 35% of pupils eligible for Free School Meals (national average 17%)
In Haringey the majority of secondary schools are SFCC compared to only 2 of Camden’s 10 schools
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%
Royal family
Advertising
Business leaders
The church
Work colleagues
Political parties
Newspapers
TV
Government
Friends
Family
2001
1996
Source: Future Foundation, NVision
Influence of big institutions partially replaced by informal networks in more cellular societies
% saying they are influenced on social and environmental issues by...
• ‘City air makes you free’ and the web promises liberation - but the promise has been only partly realised
• Key factors: – the reality of risk, and the continuing
importance of pooled risk;– the nature of power and hierarchy
3. Networks, risk and power
Risks reinforce need for institutions, capacities, security
• business• military• government • NGOs
Power continues to be organised in hierarchies - making use of networks but not displaced
4. What follows for the governance of nations and cities?
Governance is undergoing a complex revolution. I will briefly focus on 6 aspects of this:
• transparency
• holism
• directness
• learning
• edgeness
• multi-level
The e- agenda
www.strategy.gov.uk
• E commerce – 1999 (e envoy &c)
• E govt – 2000 (UK Online &)
• Privacy and datasharing – 2002
• Electronic networks regulation – 2002
• Transparency - making visible what was once internal and secret
• Holism - systemic understanding and responses to cross-cutting issues such as exclusion, crime, planning (1.5bn criminal justice IT project)
• Directness - delayering public bureaucracies to make services more direct and user-driven (8bn NHS IT project)
• Learning - continuous innovation and learning across organisational boundaries
• Differentiation and integration - more diverse public services organised in networks
• ‘Edge-ness’ -encouraging openness, links and the right balance of diversity and integration
• import of people - migration as a positive force
• import of ideas and working practices (eg relative productivity of TNCs)
• hybridity in culture
• formal cultivation of creativity and enterprise in milieus, clusters
• Multi-level participation - all agencies operating and engaging simultaneously at local, national and global levels (juries, referendums, eparliaments …)
Embedding into governance some of the qualities of the 21st century
•quickness - instead of slowness•lightness - instead of heaviness•visibility - instead of secrecy•exactitude - instead of vagueness•multiplicity - instead of homogeneity
Italo Calvino, Memos for the Millennium