Archive for ‘Democracy and governance’

Presentation: National Wisdom Network (NWN) crowd creates Australia 3.0 and wealth … is the NBN another submarine?

I have published a presentation titled “Wisdom Networks crowd create Australia 3.0″ on Slideshare. After seeing the title, Matt Taylor asked “Australia2 was a boat – is Australia3 a submarine?”. I pointed out that Australia 3.0 is an online forum and conference “on how the Australian economy can react to the age of digital transformation and positively shape its productivity and competitiveness for the future”.…

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Former Greek PM: Global political leadership has failed … we need to drive a return to crowd based democracy

The former Greek Prime Minister offers a pragmatic view of global politics and institutions in his recent TED Talk. George Papandreou: Imagine a European democracy without borders TED Talk, June 2013 Extract: This will not be a speech like any one I have ever given.…

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Young Markets Conference presentation: Wisdom Networks crowd create Equity Market revolution and evolution

I was very fortunate to be invited to speak at the 2013 Young Markets conference organised on the 6th June 2013. The presentation topic was “Wisdom Networks crowd create Equity Market revolution and evolution”. The conference was organised by Patrick Young.…

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TED: We may need to wait for the next generation to bring the exponential benefits of the internet to organisations and society

This TED Talk proposes that the first generation of a general purpose technology, like the internet, will simply use it within the status quo. In the case of the internet, the first generation has used it to speed up the status quo.…

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We need to syndicate leadership everywhere … pyramidal structures demand too much of too few and not enough of everyone else

We need to syndicate leadership everywhere Leaders everywhere: A conversation with Gary Hamel McKinsey and Company, May 2013 Extract This time around, the challenge is what we call Leaders Everywhere. And the thought underneath this is that we live in a world where never before has leadership been so necessary but where so often leaders seem to come up short.…

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Technological Singularity: Network Society could deliver the next radical jump in productivity and growth by focusing human time and attention on outcomes

Wisdom Networks crowd create Network Society … and Technological Singularity? Introduction Network Society Equity Market Health Europe From Information Age to Wisdom Networks from Wisdom Networks Network Society is a wisdom network which manages society. Network Society achieves a rapid productivity jump, SME growth, real-time governance and democracy, patient centric healthcare, a transparent and accessible equity market and to breakthrough the GDP growth ceiling and crowd create a new era of prosperity.…

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World (or knowledge) Cafe conversations reveal collective wisdom

The The World Cafe is a book and 7 step conversational process to reveal collective knowledge, share ideas and insights, and gain a deeper understanding of the subject and the issues involved. The World (or knowledge) Cafe defined Extract: A knowledge café or World Café is a type of business meeting or organisational workshop which aims to provide an open and creative conversation on a topic of mutual interest to surface their collective knowledge, share ideas and insights, and gain a deeper understanding of the subject and the issues involved.…

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Should crowd creating a better world feature among Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) outcomes?

The Corporation may, as a result of CSR or IEE processes, choose a business model that supports crowd creating free (or open source) software, innovation, wisdom and the Networked Society.

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The Digital government needs a wisdom platform to satisfy citizen needs, rather than departmental ICT solutions that fail the true mission of government

A recent article highlights the need for government to adopt a platform approach which satisfies citizen needs, rather than independent departmental investments in information and communication technologies. I will provide some extracts on democracy, government and digital government and then identify the opportunity for a National Wisdom Network.…

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The Internet of Everything: How more relevant and valuable connections will change the world (must watch video introduction!)

Internet of Everything: It’s the Connections that Matter #IoE [Infographic] by Dave Evans, Chief Futurist, Innovations Practice, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco, November 29, 2012 Extract: “It is important to understand that the real value of the Internet of Everything (IoE) lies in both the number and value of connections.” “With this in mind, Cisco is currently determining the value that comes from a more connected economy.…

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‘Internet of Everything’ (IOE) to generate $14.4 trillion in value through 2020 … entrepreneurs and corporates need to move fast!

Article: ‘Internet of Everything’ to generate $14.4 trillion in value through 2020, predicts Cisco, Enterprises must transform to tap into business opportunities, February 25, 2013 | By Fred Donovan Extract: “Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) predicts the “Internet of Everything” will generate $14.4 trillion in value through 2020, creating a significant business opportunity over the next decade.” “Businesses must transform themselves to take advantage of the potential profits and cost savings from the Internet of Everything, which is the interconnection of people, processes, machines and objects, Cisco said in a new report.” The main factors driving this development are $2.5 trillion from reduced costs through asset utilization, $2.5 trillion in improved employee productivity, $2.7 trillion for eliminated waste in supply chain and logistics, $3.7 trillion in improved customer experience and $3 trillion in reduced time-to-market through innovation.…

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All Data needs to be given a web address (or URL) and available for use by Open Networks

Draft made available to invite comments. Final published within 48 hours. Tim Berners-Lee current trip to Australia and my recent interaction with the Open Data Institute prompted some thought about Open Data. To derive economic benefit, data needs to be available by URL, tagged, linked and shared community-wide by the individuals and organisations that have an interest in it.…

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The 6 stages to achieve personal, organisation, industry and global wisdom in the “Internet of Things”

The purpose of this article is to discuss the 6 stages to achieve Wisdom. These stages apply universally to economic development, organisation structure and information technology given a wisdom network is (probably) the next stage in the evolution of these previously separate outcomes. Management technology, information technology and global governance are all moving toward the cloud. While intuitive that everything moves to the cloud, the means and method by which it can be achieved has not been identified.

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Don Tapscott: Knowledge management has failed … you need a collaborative suite to transform the nature of work within the 21st century enterprise

McKinsey Quarterly just interviewed Don Tapscott about “Making internal collaboration work”. It added to an excellent TED talk Don Tapscott gave IN June 2012 titled “Four principles for the open world”. I highly recommend it. The most memorable part came at the end where he equated the organisation of wisdom of crowds to a of starlings.…

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The State of the Internet 2012

Mary Meeker produces an annual state of the internet report. Her 2012 report is enclosed below. I recommend you read it. KPCB Internet Trends 2012 View more presentations from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers…

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Education 1.0 churns out predictable, testable, and mediocre factory workers … Education 3.0 fulfils dreams!

I just received an email by a friend telling me about the latest Seth Godin blog post and initiatve. I have a passionate interest in applying Web 3.0 to fields of human endeavour. Seth’s email and initiative highlights the possibilites of applying Web 3.0 to education.…

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Management 3.0 in 2012? Will the technology-business relationship be inverted? Will technology define business?

For decades, enterprise software has been designed to support business processes. These business processes were defined by the organisation. The organisation’s management model was based on the Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchy. As we have described many times before, the world is in transition from Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies to Web 3.0 open networks.…

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Management 3.0 Digital Ecosystem: New presentation and collaboration group!

I have just published a new presentation at Slideshare titled “MANAGEMENT 3.0: An open source software update to digital, community ecosystems (from analogue, proprietary hierarchies) across organisation, industry, national and global endeavours“. I have also establish the Management 3.0 group to provide an example of organisational sub-groups.…

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Beyond Bureaucracy: Management 3.0 “Central Brain” platform enables integrated Digital Ecosystems spanning organisations, industry, nations and global endeavours

My recent entry in the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge Part 2 of the McKinsey HBR M-Prize is called the The Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge. I have lodged a entry The Management 3.0 “Central Brain” platform enables integrated Digital Ecosystems spanning organisations, industry, national and global endeavours.…

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Could Google+ be the foundation for Economic Development 4.0?

A member of my Google+ circles asked me the following question: “Marcus, I was reading much of your website and your theory on Web 4.0. In the last week, I’ve said that once Google integrates all of it’s entire App products (Business+Education),Gmail, Google Docs, etc into Google+, it will set the foundation for Web 4.0.…

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UN call for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival… How to make this happen?

I stumbled across the following LinkedIn discussion. UN call for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival… How to make this happen? Extract: “Warning for global suicide and time running out, Ban ki-moon called last Friday at Davos for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival.…

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Australia 3.0: The NBN needs a National Application Network (Web 3.0 social, political and industrial “Central Brains”) to coordinate and achieve national innovation, collaboration, productivity and outcomes

NOTE: I posted this article in the LinkedIn NBN Group. I have added it here as a post. If you could create a “Central Brain” (or Facebook) in 5 days to focus the effort and wisdom of 2 Billion people, what problem would you solve?…

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Every country and innovation ecosystem needs a “Central Brain” to coordinate innovation, collaboration, workflow and valuable outcomes

A social network could provide a "helicopter view" to understand and a "central brain" to focus a country's innovation ecosystem on outcomes. It is today's solution for yesterday's problem. Specifically, Equity Market 4.0 could be used to connect and coordinate a community with a common interest in managing an innovation ecosystem and maintain diversity that may be lost with centralisation. The community would need to be large enough and dispersed enough to warrant the use of a Web 3.0 network. Equity Market 3.0 could be delivered within 5 days and customised for use with 30-90 days. It could be used by a country, group of universities, industry associations, research organisations and their partners or globally.

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Who spawns and cradles Economic Development 4.0? The Earth Institute is a good candidate and catalyst …

Quick summary of Economic Development 4.0 (The Economic Development 4.0 presentation is embedded at the end of this post) Economic Development 4.0 is how the world works after applying Web 3.0 (or Facebook) networks to social, industrial and political endeavours Web 3.0 person to person networks overcome the design limitations of Web 1.0 hierarchies to deliver global transparency, meritocracy, productivity, accessibility and better decision making We can create the Web 3.0 networks on the Critical Path to Economic Development 4.0 in 90 days.…

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Open Letter to Bjorn Lomborg: Web 3.0 networks overcome Web 1.0 limitations to prioritise and implement global solutions

Your TED presentation on prioritising the solutions to global priorities was insightful. Innovation is incremental and I wanted to offer Web 3.0 networks as a structure that overcomes the design limitations of Web 1.0 to deliver a more effective means to prioritise and implement solutions to the many problems confronting our world.…

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My 2nd HBR-McKinsey M-Prize Application for Economic Development 4.0

This is my second application in the M-Prize competition. The first was for Equity Market 3.0. My Economic Development 4.0 M-Prize application can be reviewed here. The M-Prize “ In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we’re inviting management innovators from around the world, in every realm of endeavor to share the most progressive practices and disruptive ideas that illustrate how the governing principles and tools of the Web can make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable.…

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Open letter to Google.org and its volunteers: Please help engineer global SME growth, climate stability, health and Economic Development 4.0!

I read with interest about the objective of Google.org below: “Google.org projects are created for the purpose of addressing a social challenge and serving the public good. Our goal is to find engineering solutions to global challenges such as climate change, clean energy and global health.…

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Open Letter to George Soros: Web 3.0 thinking about democracy, economic development and financial markets

Mr George Soros Chairman, Open Society Institute I read with interest about your initiative to inspire a new way of thinking about economics. I studied Economics at University and maintain an avid interests in geostrategy. I appreciate the need for new ways of thinking and behaviours to deliver a more stable approach to economic management and financial markets.…

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