They made me think about the “how” of conducting such planetary public policy.

Global institutions such as the OECD, EU, UN, WTO… etc. are comforting patterns of governance that we are all familiar with. National and local congresses, parliaments, councils all look like the structure of these global organizations. But as complexity increases I think the only robust channel for planetary exchange will be self-organized like-minded groups. Open source is a great non-govermental example. (Can you think of good governmental examples of these types of networks?) Linked through technology in tight or dispersed networks, I think this form of organization will in time, become more resilient and effective form of policy-generation than the more rigid planetary structures we have put in place. Networks like these can identify (global problems), exchange information, (about local solutions), communicate (interculturally and globally), grow or recede with much more agility than pre-designed global structures. Could the medium of conducting planetary public policy be networks of organic(self-organized) global groups? Does it matter?