Online networks and emergence in public policy: homesteading the frontiers of governance
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Online networks and emergence in public policy: homesteading the frontiers of governance Alberto Cottica
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Collaborative public policies spawned in the 2000s as an attempt to bring web 2.0 ways onto the public sector. Early experiments have been generally successful, but now some of the longest-running projects are faced with a fundamental tension between top-down directionality as implied by government action and the emergent character of networked social dynamics. This has very serious consequences on concepts like accountability and universality, and may be incompatible with organizing public institutions as Weberian bureaucracies. Complexity sciences supply a useful framework to think about these issues, though we still lack a proper theory of emergence in the social world.
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Online networks and emergence in public policy: homesteading the frontiers of governance
Alberto Cottica
2005: hey, that’s a cool tool!
Native support for groups AND conversation
Interaction + scale = emergent phenomena
Can we do mesolevel policy?
P2P assistance to creative business startup
Launched spring 2008
3K users, 450 projects, tens of cool businesses!
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The best ideas stay away from public funding
“Success breeds success” in main cities
Kublai Camp 2009 Kublai Camp 2011 administrative uncertainty starts
“We don’t like the way you run things”
Did we get it wrong?
Policy needs to meet exogenous goals
Online networks steer by endogenous social dynamics
A fundamental tension: directedness vs. emergence
Policy as enabler: shaping the fitness landscape
For the frontier to keep advancing
There is a price to pay
Rethink government
Governance is not a machine
It is more like an ecosystem
(btw, rethink evaluation too)
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