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Imagined [Network] Communities
In the last days there has been a debate between Larry Lessig and Kevin Kelly about how to “name” the governance of network societies. Kevin Kelly proposed “new socialism” which Larry Lessig found irresponsible. Everyone and their grandmother (incl. me) … Continue reading
A New Governance Paradigm?
Yesterday, Vivek Kundra launched several open government initiatives, most importantly the site Data.gov. It makes raw governmental data available in machine-readable format and allows users to build applications with the data. This type of governance by opening up (radical transparency … Continue reading
A City that thinks like the web
Mark Surman, the executive director of the Mozilla foundation gave a talk in Toronto last November titled “a city that thinks like the web.” His argument was that opennes and participation made the web better and can make cities better … Continue reading
Permutations of the Privacy Debate
The privacy-in-the-Internet-Age debate has certain spiritual overtones that make it a more uncomfortable topic than it could be. I was confronted with it by Tobias yesterday at Georg Zoche’s famous Arrabiata-International-Night and just finished reading Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger‘s Useful Void – … Continue reading
legitimation moves through time
Yesterday, while I was giving my lecture at the Latin American E-Gov Summit, I noticed that the legitimation-question needs to be worked out more explicitly. I was arguing that in network society the move from institutional legitimation to results-oriented legitimation … Continue reading
Do you speak Good Governance?
At the dinner table last night, in a beautiful house overlooking the grand Mexican Flag on Cerro del Opispado, I sensed a sadness that I had not felt since discussions with Central and Eastern European policy makers around our very … Continue reading
A Macro-Historical Perspective on Engineering Governance
In Western thought we locate the birth of rationalism with early Greek thinking, when mythical explanations of social artifacts do not suffice anymore. Rationalism can take two perspectives: (a) observatory or retrospective rationalism that seeks to describe and explain why … Continue reading →
19. June 2009 by Philipp
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