The 72.000.000 question
The US presidential election, our digital future, and a question for the friends at ODI’s Digital Societies programme
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4IR
Preparing the governance systems of tomorrow: researching megatrends. A conversation with Elina Kiiski-Kataja and Tony Addison at the Oodi Library in Helsinki
What does it mean for a government to invest and research megatrends? How does it help to prepare the governance system of tomorrow? To what extent are megatrends taken into consideration in international development research and programming? I have met Elina Kiiski– Kataja and Tony Addison at the Oodi Library in Helsinki to discuss these questions.
The 4IR Is Here. Do We Need to Design Development Initiatives Differently?
It is easy to get carried away with the promises of technology when we read about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or 4IR.
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Governments and governance in the digital revolution: opportunities and challenges. In conversation with Johannes Mikkonen
At the end of last year, with support from Helvetas I co-authored a paper entitled, State Capability, Policymaking and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Do Knowledge Systems Matter?
From adaptive development to adaptive national systems
Great blog by Geoff Mulgan and Anir Chowdhury on Medium. It made me think that when we talk about adaptive development we need to think bigger. We need to think about how whole national governance systems can become more adaptive, experimental, evidence-informed. It is about using systems thinking to develop the capabilities of governance system
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Digital technologies and evidence informed policy systems
Last October I was in Islamabad and was interview at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute. We discussed the changes that new digital technologies bring and will continue to bring to evidence informed policy processes and systems. Click on sdpi.tv to watch the interview.
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Is education the new currency?
If we can quantify the value of each educational opportunity, can that data help map a pathway for building the skills needed to succeed? One company is looking into it. Reposted from BBC Source: Is education the new currency? – BBC Worklife
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UNDP and its systems journey
UNDP teams continue to publish interesting blog posts about their attempts to move to a system approach which include managing portfolio of projects or experiments.
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