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author:: Hanzi Freinacht
full title:: How to Design Future Governance
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Highlights
- the future of governance”, what I have come to call its protopian forms.
- Governance is the capacity of humans to weave their individual streams-of-action into coordinated wholes, so that actions form chains that are coordinated across time and space, in a manner increasing the likelihood of desirable results and decreasing the likelihood of undesirable results.
- Governance also includes the coordination of human communicative actions that determine which results are desirable and undesirable in the first place.
- you often get worse results for everyone involved by simply expanding how many people are directly involved in decision-making.
- Collective intelligence is the capacity of a group to solve shared problems
- Increasing collective intelligence often means moving complex decisions into the realm of participatory and deliberative democracies — i.e. involving stakeholders and creating citizen councils selected by sortition (lottery) to discuss a matter before a policy is decided upon.
- Another trap for creating the future of governance is to follow the principle of subsidiarity: that decisions should be made at the lowest possible level
- units of governance can and should exchange influence over one another, so as to create a lattice, network,
- We tend to overemphasize short and shallow feedback cycles while ignoring the long and deep ones. Instead, we should increase our capacity to make fundamental and structural changes, while being less sensitive to short-term trends and pressures