Earth will survive. Shall we? – Some Science, Spirit and Song
This morning an astrophysicist’s essay brought up for me my long-time suspicion that “saving the world” is more about saving ourselves than …
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 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 …
Is the Public Well-Informed Enough to be Trusted with Democracy?
OZY.com is an interesting news feed that includes occasional provocative questions for their audience under the name “Third Rail”. Recently they asked …
Wise democracy’s most fundamental principle
I devised the idea of wise democracy to help us “evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the whole on behalf …
The We-Space Summit and the Role of Group Magic in Social Systems
“We-Space” is a new name for a field of collective practices that generate profound conversation. A “We-Space Summit” has been organized to …
The fall and rise of truth, trust and society’s capacity for wisdom
What does it mean to live in a “post-truth era”? Is there a broader history and context feeding that phenomenon than just …