“Delivering Effects Through Influence Activity”
29-30 June 2011
London, UK
Seth Godin: Game Theory of Discovery, Free-Gap
Blog Wisdom
The game theory of discovery and the birth of the free-gap
It all started because of the discovery problem.
Too many things to choose from, more every day. No efficient way to alert the world about your service, your music, your book. How about giving it away to help the idea spread?
The simplest old school examples are radio (songs to hear for free, in in the hope that someone will buy them) and Oprah (give away all the secrets in your book in the hope that many will buy.)
There's a line out the door of people eager to spread their ideas, because in a crowded marketplace, being ignored is the same as failure.
Kenya Advances with Participatory Budgeting
03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Methods & Process, Open Government, Real Time, Serious Games
Participatory Budgeting in Kenya: Finance Minister invites Suggestions through Social Media
Marvin Tumbo, Contributor:
The Kenyan Government has been getting quite tech savvy in the recent past, becoming more pronounced as Kenyans join the civil service. This has resulted in subtle, but solid, movements towards a better connected Government as was showcased during the Connected Kenya Summit in Mombasa in April.
Digital Activism, Epidemiology, Faster *IS* Different
11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Methods & Process, Mobile, Tools
Digital Activism, Epidemiology and Old Spice: Why Faster is Indeed Different
The following thoughts were inspired by one of Zeynep Tufekci’s recent posts entitled “Faster is Different” on her Technosociology blog. Zeynep argues “against the misconception that acceleration in the information cycle means would simply mean same things will happen as would have before, but merely at a more rapid pace. So, you can’t just say, hey, people communicated before, it was just slower. That is wrong. Faster is different.”
I think she’s spot on and the reason why goes to the heart of complex systems behavior and network science. “Combined with the reshaping of networks of connectivity from one/few-to-one/few (interpersonal) and one-to-many (broadcast) into many-to-many, we encounter qualitatively different dynamics,” writes Zeynep. In a very neat move, she draws upon “epidemiology and quarantine models to explain why resource-constrained actors, states, can deal with slower diffusion of protests using ‘whack-a-protest’ method whereas they can be overwhelmed by simultaneous and multi-channel uprisings which spread rapidly and ‘virally.’
Read entire anomalously long post….
Phi Beta Iota: Concentrations of power create preconditions for revolution. Precipitants (such as burning monks or fruit vendors) ignite masses. The public is a power no government can repress forever. Howard Zinn (RIP) knew the public is a power government cannot repress; Vaclav Havel spoke to this (power of the powerless); Jonathan Schell documented it most ably (unconquerable world). Bottom line: With a tiny handful of exceptions, all governments have lost legitimacy and capability at the same time that the public is increasingly aware of the shocking injustices by banks and predatory corporations that have been legalized by governments. Patrick Meier's discussion is a significant contribution to our understanding of why a global revolution is inevitable and panarchy will replace “sovereignty” as the primary operating principle for Earth.
A perfect storm of stupid [not really–just corruption]
03 Environmental Degradation, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, Policies
In search of intelligence…among humans.
The news is full of extreme weather headlines – floods, wildfires, droughts, tornadoes – but the US still doesn't get climate change
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 June 2011
Phi Beta Iota: This is a very fine contribution to the discussion but it commits the classic error of being afraid to call a spade a space. CORRUPTION is the reason why the USA is not serious about climate change (which is 10% of environmental degradation, threat #3 among the ten high-level threats to humanity). It is the LACK OF INTEGRITY among decision-makers, combined with (enabled by) a lack of public intelligence feeding public outrage such that very bad decisions can be made that profit the few at the expense of the many.
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Graphic: Seek Sense Share
Citizen-Centered, Collection, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Political, Processing, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes, True Cost
Phi Beta Iota: If integrity is lacking in any part of this process, it corrupts the entire nested cycle. It merits mention that shortfalls in integrity have cumulative compound negatives. They add up to the point that the entire process is so corrupt it leads to otherwise avoidable catastrophic failures.
Graphic: Diversity–28 Aspects
Citizen-Centered, Multinational Plus, Tribes
