How to scale up conversations to embrace millions (Collective Coherence Part Three)
We know we can scale up democratic exercises like voting to embrace thousands or millions of people. But what about scaling up …
Finding our way together – through innovations in voting (Collective Coherence Part One)
Groups use various methods to live together, to think together, and to come together to get work done. My new series of …
The Co-Intelligence Institute’s unique and expanding contributions – with you!
This post is a fundraiser. You’ll read about some of the Co-Intelligence Institute’s leading-edge activities and how specific people treasure our valuable contributions. …
vTaiwan (Part 5) – Lessons for Government-Engaged Popular Deliberation
How could we generate vTaiwan-like citizen- and stakeholder-engaged government elsewhere? In this post I explore the nature of government engagement with participatory …
vTaiwan (Part 4) – Online sources for my research
Here are dozens of links I used in my explorations of vTaiwan and my invitation for you to explore further one of …
vTaiwan (Part 3) – Two Stories of Tapping the Wisdom and Resourcefulness of the Whole
Here I describe how Taiwan’s “gov-zero” mobilized 9700 people to digitize 30,000 campaign finance records in 24 hours… and how vTaiwan mobilized …
vTaiwan (Part 2) – Notes on Aspects of the vTaiwan Phenomenon
To expand on my introduction to vTaiwan in Part 1, I offer here some descriptions of its roots, its dynamics, and some …
vTaiwan – A Glimpse of Open Source Open Space Government (Part 1)
Here’s a fascinating introduction to one of the most remarkably co-intelligent experiments in governance happening on the planet today. More to follow…. …
Life-transforming patterns sweeping into our world….
Technological developments are likely to radically transform our world in the immediate future in fundamental and unpredictable ways. Kevin Kelly gives us …
Where anarchy meets wholeness – a new vision of “panarchy”
Whereas anarchy refers to no one in charge, panarchy can refer to everyone and everything in charge – a kind of self-organized …