Tag: government
What Can Crowds do Against Manipulation of and by Governments?
This is the third in a series of articles covering parts of the book I am writing about possible solutions to modern democracy’s challenges. Join the discussion so we can use the power of crowdsourcing to build on ideas...
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Democracy Advocate MiVote Expands to the UK
1947 the British politician Winston Churchill famously said “…democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” 70-plus years later, industrialised democracies...
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What Does Spoof Storming of a US Air Force Base Tell Us About Public Trust?
The originally anonymous creator of a Facebook spoof has gone public to explain he meant the storming of Area 51 on September 20 – “to see them aliens” – as a joke. What got him to break cover was 1.9 million people (so far)...
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Crowdsourcing Ideas Against Populism
If selfishness is a trigger of many issues in today’s modern democracies, as suggested in my previous article, populism could be regarded as a facilitator in this game. That’s the topic of this article, with an invitation to you to contribute with your thoughts and views. I would like to use the power of crowdsourcing to build on ideas.
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Crowdsourcing Solutions for Democracy
Advanced modern civilizations that were thriving are now challenged by populism, nationalism and new leaders acting with little respect for social values or long term benefits for society as a whole. Some of the democratic...
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The Influence of Crowd Technology on Democracy
We live in changing times in which high levels of human migration to developed countries has generated a resurgence of nationalist, populist politics. A more confrontational political landscape is fuelled by deliberately...
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“In order to have a breakthrough, you have to break something”
I wish I had come up with that line, but I must give credit to Joe Polish. It neatly sums up the times we’re living in, where the pace and scale of change are disrupting many established business models and social norms, and...
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Day 3 of CSW Global 2018 Shows How Organizations Can Better Serve the Individual
Individual and organization needs, particularly within government, can seem at odds, though Day 3 of our CSW Global 2018 conference on October 26 emphasized the importance of them evolving together. At its best, the organization...
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How Horizon State Leads the Blockchain Charge
The blockchain discussion is often focused on the financial benefits – indeed, you can often catch new folks interchange “bitcoin” and “blockchain” in common conversation. The impact, though, will go well beyond fiat currencies...
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Q&A with Oren Alazraki, CEO of Horizon State
Horizon State has leveraged blockchain’s immutable distributed ledger technology to redesign the way that opinion is solicited, votes are cast, and collaborative decisions are made. Horizon State reshapes interactions between...
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