Archive for July, 2008
Empowering people through Web 3.0 + Gen Y + m-governance
Thursday, July 31st, 2008As the Fortune Brainstorm Tech near Silicon Valley was getting going last week, I contributed a blog entry on ‘Governance-on-the-Go’, or ‘GonGo’, emphasizing the need to move away from static ‘e-government’ towards the highly mobile citizen becoming center stage in the next phase of IT interface with governance. The blog entry and the contributions I made during the BrainstormTech drew some [...]
Orden en la Jungla: Estado de Derecho y Economía
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Recientemente este polémico y contundente artículo sobre Estado de Derecho apareció en ‘The Economist’, en inglés (ver original). Y hubo discusión al respecto en nuestro blog (aquí). Ahora el blog ‘Chile Liberal’ ha traducido el artículo al castellano (aquí).
‘Governance-on-the-Go’, or GonGo: the citizen at the center of an IT-enabled governance breakthrough?
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008I am now at the Fortune BrainstormTech, which aims to relate innovations in technology to larger world problems it can solve. The event just started, featuring fascinating evening panels with tech leaders (here). One of the sessions I will co-lead tomorrow, with Ross Mayfield of Socialtext, is on governance. In this forthcoming interactive lab we will try to advance the [...]
Democracy and Development: Rejecting the Extremes
Friday, July 18th, 2008We recently released the new Governance Matters study, with its accompanying set of Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), covering 212 countries since 1996. It is no secret that this research project that I started with Aart Kraay over a decade ago is not uncontroversial, having generated debate among academics, some government officials, and within the World Bank. The data [...]