Earlier this month, the Nobel memorial economics prize(s) awarded to Ostrom and Williamson caused a bit of a stir, and for a variety of remarkable reasons, not the least of which is Ostrom’s career being ostensibly limited to the political sciences. Reflexively hailing the merits of analysis whose influence stretches beyond traditional disciplines over “pure” research may ring superficial, but [...]
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Tangentially Nobel-related
Posted in Policy, tagged governance, Nobel Prize, Ostrom, Williamson on 30 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cyber and complexity
Posted in Policy, tagged cyber, digital, resilience, Web on 4 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
This past weekend, the New York Times published a fascinating article about an issue that, like an onion, offers just about enough layers for everyone to get their share before coming apart in a mess of theory, law, power politics, and ethics. Apparently, an intricate American plan to wreak havoc on the Iraqi cyberstructure was [...]
Liberty and security…”2.0″!
Posted in Policy, tagged decentralization, emergence, open, organization, Web on 29 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
I really don’t like that meme. It’s been applied to too much by too many and might as well just be synonymous with “new and improved”. Sure, there’s plenty of transformative stuff going on under the designation, but also plenty of misdirection to cloak the old in the new. Kind of like, if you have [...]
Smoke and mirrors
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, cooperation, decentralization, organization on 31 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in the DC area this week in support of an information sharing project that was conceived with the intention of taking some fundamental first steps towards overcoming social, organizational, and technological challenges that regularly and continuously plague humanitarian emergencies, disaster responses, and essentially any situation that forces too many interests into too little space [...]
Good intentions…
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, cooperation, decentralization, design, emergence, open, organization on 21 March 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been mulling over some items that caught my attention this past week that highlight some divergent angles being taken to address essentially similar problems: Web communications, decentralized authority, and agile organization. Though it would be too much to assume anything about the motives behind these various initiatives, what came to mind is that cliché [...]
Considering openness
Posted in Policy, tagged collaboration, cooperation, Obama, open on 23 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It comes as no surprise, considering the rising awareness of open source technology generally, that the new President has requested a review of the possibilities made available to the government by pursuing open source solutions. The immediate benefits obviously come from decreased acquisitions costs, freedom from proprietary licensing restrictions and vendor lock-in, and a unique [...]
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