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…. …
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 …
Mutual learning in context – everywhere – always…
A poem about another deep dynamic we can tap into to generate wisdom together. What is it about the fact that everything …
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 …