21c playbook
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The document discusses strategies for living sustainably so there is a future for humanity in the 22nd century. It summarizes the ideas of several thinkers who argue that society needs to shift away from its exclusive focus on economic growth and prioritize other pillars of sustainability like culture, social equity and the environment. A fourth sector of open knowledge sharing is proposed to help address sustainability challenges through massive online collaboration.
21c playbook
- 1. 21cPlAyBoOk PlAyBoOk for the 21st Century Global open source collaboration so there is a tomorrow. v1.0 July, 2015 By Ted Ritzer
- 2. 21cPlAyBoOk • The crazy idea of 21cPlAyBoOk is to try to think of how humans on planet earth should live, work and play so there is a 22nd century.
- 3. How Should We Live Now So There Is A 22nd Century • The real point of this presentation is not to provide answers, but to inspire asking the question of humanity, how should we live so there is a tomorrow? • It is by asking the question and demanding an answer that there is hope for tomorrow. • Apathy is not an option for our species.
- 4. A New Way of Thinking • If we humans are to stand a chance of surviving into the 22nd century we have to start thinking differently right now or there is no tomorrow for our species.
- 6. Meaningful Experiences for a Meaningful Life?
- 7. Jon Hawke’s The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability • Australian Jon Hawke’s work is worthy of our consideration: • Culture’s essential role in public planning • http://www.culturaldevelopment.net.au/com munity/Downloads/HawkesJon(2001)TheFour thPillarOfSustainability.pdf
- 8. Hawke’s quote from page 25: E C O L O G I C A L LY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE The four pillars of sustainability ‘Sustainability, as it has become formally adopted around the world, has not one but three pillars: • ecological sustainability, • social sustainability and • economic sustainability. Some would argue that there should be four pillars and that cultural sustainability should always be included. We agree with this view.’ D. Yencken and D. Wilkinson
- 9. Hawke’s Four Pillars of Sustainability • 1. Cultural Vitality: well-being, creativity, diversity and innovation. • 2. Social Equity: justice, engagement, cohesion, welfare. • 3. Environmental Responsibility: ecological balance. • Economic Vitality: material prosperity.
- 10. Hawke quote from page 3 • “Without delving too deeply into the mass of scholarly literature that has developed around this word, two inter-related definitions stand out. They are: • the social production and transmission of identities, meanings, knowledge, beliefs, values, aspirations, memories, purposes, attitudes and understanding; • the ‘way of life’ of a particular set of humans: customs, faiths and conventions; codes of manners, dress, cuisine, language, arts, science, technology, religion and rituals; norms and regulations of behaviour, traditions and institutions.”
- 11. Hawke quote from page 10 • “There is more to life than corporate profit and that ways must be found to articulate and measure the other-than-financial aspects of human aspiration – to express community values in ways that affect public planning. “
- 12. Hawke quote from page 21 PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT • ‘To achieve “ecological growth” we may need to move from an economy of production to an economy of repair – of our damaged society, of our damaged environment, even of our used products. The Swedes call this the “ecocyclic society”.’ B. Gleeson & N. Low
- 13. Hawke quote from page 21: • “Growth, development and progress are concepts that have informed western philosophies of public action for centuries. They had become so ingrained into the fabric that, until relatively recently, the question ‘towards what?’ was one that was rarely asked. Over the past two decades, if the question had been asked, the answer would have been something like ‘more material prosperity’. • The sustainability movement has been at the forefront of the arguments proposing that this goal is not achievable either on a global scale or in the long term.”
- 14. Developed or Developing Is That All There Is? • Hawke’s point about society’s focus on growth is captured in the way we view the world as either developed, or developing. • That the whole world is committed to this type of philosophy, without ever questioning the logic of a philosophy that has resulted in negative impacts at a planetary level! • Hawke’ point is it is time to rethink our global philosophy to shift to one that puts society in sync with the physical limits of our planet is long overdue.
- 15. No Sector Has All The Answers • Author Jim Collins in his book “Good to Great and the Social Sectors” was one of the first authors to question the idea that the private sector has all the answers. Collins quote: • “We must reject the idea-well intentioned, but dead wrong-that the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become ‘more like a business’.”
- 16. Put Meaning In Our Lives: According to Collins : Page 16: “Social sectors have one compelling advantage: desperate craving for meaning in our lives…. • The number one resource for a great social sector organization is having enough of the right people willing to commit themselves to mission. • The right people can often attract money, but money by itself can never attract the right people. Money is a commodity; talent is not. • Time and talent can often compensate for lack of money, but money cannot ever compensate for lack of the right people.”
- 17. “Rebalancing Society”? • Jim Collins is not the only person who is questioning the societal models or assumptions that we make that may in fact impede our ability to create the future that we all want and need. • Professor Henry Mintzberg over a period of five years developed his own premise about what is needed to create a new future in his new book “Rebalancing Society”. • http://www.mintzberg.org/sites/default/files/reb alancing_society_pamphlet.pdf
- 18. “Rebalancing Society” Graphic Source PDF cited earlier:
- 19. Beyond, Left, Right & Center • Mintzberg in his “Rebalancing Society” book makes a case for moving beyond politics to solve the world’s problems • Further Mintzberg proposes that no sector, whether private, public or plural sector (the not-for-profit sector) can independently solve the world’s problems • What is needed is collaboration between all sectors at global scale.
- 20. Mintzberg quote from page 12: • “This pamphlet challenges the dogma that sees us all driven to compete, collect, and consume our way to neurotic oblivion.”
- 21. Mintzberg quote from page 26: • “In the name of liberty we are suffering from individualism: every person and every institution striving to get the most for him, her, or itself, over the needs of society and a threatened planet.”
- 22. Mintzberg quote from page 33 • “What has been behind most of the protests—east and west, north and south, left and right—should be obvious to anyone who cares to get it. People have had it with social imbalance.”
- 23. Balance in Society screen grab from page 34
- 24. Quote from page 38: • “Communism taught us that a society with hardly any private property cannot function effectively. “ • “Capitalism is teaching us that a society with hardly anything but private property may not be much better.”
- 25. Communityship in the Plural (Not-for-Profit) Social Sector • “If the private sector is about individual ownership and • the public sector is about collective citizenship, • then the plural sector is about joint communityship, whereby people pull together to get things done. • Between our individualized and collective natures, we are social beings who crave relationships: we need to affiliate, belong, identify. Here is where the associations of the plural sector are of particular relevance, especially those with compelling missions, such as treating the ill or protecting the environment. ”
- 26. Effective Organizations? Quote from page 42: • “The most effective organizations generally function as communities of human beings, not collections of human resources.” Quote from page 44: • “Community figures hardly at all in a prevailing dogma that favors economic scale, no matter what are the social consequences.”
- 27. Openness & Transparency Required: Quote from page 59: • “What’s the use of occupying the front streets while the deals are continuing in the back offices?”
- 28. Collective Citizenship & Cultural Communityship Quote from page 93: • “We need to rethink democracy, to reclaim it from personal individualism at the expense of collective citizenship and cultural communityship.”
- 29. Mintzberg Recipe for the 21st Century From page 63: • “I believe that responsible social movements and social initiatives, carried out in communities and other associations, networked internationally, are the greatest hope we have for regaining balance in this troubled world.”
- 30. Mark Anielski’s book “The Economics of Happiness” Quote from the above book: “Genuine Well Being which is derived from genuine wealth, which in turn consists of five capital accounts: • Human capital-individual minds, bodies, spirits and their capabilities • Social capital-quality and strength of our relations in the community: trust, honesty, common values, including tolerance • Natural capital-stocks and funds in nature that yield flows of natural resources and life-supporting ecosystem services • Built capital-machines, tools, durable consumer goods • Financial capital-money and other liquid assets, fungible and acceptable payment of transactions and debts. Our current system of national accounts focuses on Financial Capital, pays some attention to Built Capital, and ignores all of the others. The problem is that it is the first three that are most responsible for genuine well-being.”
- 31. What Makes Life Worthwhile? From Page 90 of “The Economics of Happiness”: At the core: what makes life worthwhile? The answer defines your core values: • Personal well-being • Professional well-being • Social/civic well-being • Environmental well-being • Financial well-being
- 32. Recipe for a Flourishing Society? Page110 of “The Economics of Happiness” UK Based New Economics Foundation’s Well-Being Manifesto for a Flourishing Society: http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_PublicationDetail.aspx?pid=193 The society suggests that the key ingredients to a flourishing society are: • Measuring what matters • Meaningful work • Reclaiming time • Flourishing schools • Complete health for the nation • Investing in the early years. • Authentic advertising • Community contribution: being engaged in community
- 33. The Magic Sauce for 21st Century? Page 218 of “The Economics of Happiness” • “Evidence suggests that once we have met most of our basic material needs for life, more money doesn’t translate into either more objective or subjective well-being or happiness. Empirical research into happiness has shown that industrialized countries well-being appears to rise with the national income, but then reaches a threshold at a certain level. Above this level an increase in well-being is so small as to be almost undetectable.”
- 34. Who Do You Trust? • Today, it seems there is a universal joke that says that citizens trust used car salesman more than politicians. • So it seems that any political party/leader that actually delivers what they said in their pre- election policy platform will in fact be exceptional! • So it seems safe to say that most people do not trust politicians.
- 35. Who Do You Trust of Society’s Major Sectors? • Using Henry Mintzberg model of sectors, Mintzberg has argued of the three sectors he identified, private, public, and the ‘plural’ or not-for-profit sector, Professor Mintzberg for a variety of reasons described in his book “Rebalancing Society” chooses the plural or not-for-profit social sector for the planet’s future.
- 36. What Do You Trust? • Considering Jon Hawke’s four pillars of sustainability, which do you trust? • Cultural Vitality: well-being, creativity, diversity, and innovation. • Social Equity: justice, engagement, cohesion, welfare. • Environmental Responsibility: ecological balance. • Economic Vitality: material prosperity.
- 37. To Date Society Has Focused Only on the Economy • Mintzberg made the point that do date, society has focused exclusively on the economy or material prosperity, & look where that has gotten society. • Anielski’s research adds that even with material prosperity, happiness is not guaranteed. • So if humanity is to have a future, there has got to be a shift away from an exclusive focus on the economy.
- 38. If There Is No Environment There Is No Economy! • According to author Thomas King in his book “The Inconvenient Indian” Indigenous peoples are exceptions in that at a societal level their value and belief system has incorporated the belief that their way of living must live within the physical limits of the environment.
- 39. Army of Lightness-the Fourth Sector? • I would argue that the future of humanity needs to consider a fourth sector. • A sector that in biological terms is the ‘stem cells’ of sectors. • That is people participate in this sector for a portion of their lives, and can through that experience join any one of the three sectors that Mintzberg identifies, private, public or not-for-profit social sectors.
- 40. The Army of Lightness- K2∞? • For me the army of lightness is the education sector which I have fondly dubbed K2∞. • This conclusion was reached based on my experience with a World Bank course on citizen engagement.
- 41. The Fourth Sector So There Is a 22nd Century • In the spring of 2015 I participated in a World Bank MOOC- Engaging Citizens-a Gamechanger for development?” • https://www.coursera.org/course/engagecitiz en
- 42. 12,000 students? • Initially, I was very skeptical of any learning process that had 12,000 students. • The only reason I took the course was my curiosity about “Massive Online Open Courses-MOOCs” • I wanted to at least be able to say I took at MOOC, so I could say I know they don’t work from first had experience!
- 43. OMG the darn thing worked? • Imagine my surprise, when the dust settled and I concluded that darn MOOC was one of the most satisfying and effective learning experiences of my life!
- 44. K2∞-the Fourth Sector? • Given my experience with the MOOC, I would add a fourth sector to Mintzberg’s model that scales globally to help solve the world’s ‘wicked’ problems, that is the education or ‘Sharing knowledge-K2∞’ sector.
- 45. Open Source Knowledge Sharing • Given my experience with the World Bank MOOC, and its ability to scale globally I am convinced that knowledge sharing and problem solving can scale at a global scale. • And further that that scaling can be supported by an open source philosophy of both content, knowledge and technology similar to what Clay Shirky has proposed, but targeted to the world’s ‘wicked’ problems.
- 46. Open Source Knowledge Sharing and “Wicked” Problem Solving • Clay Shirky video • http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_t he_internet_will_one_day_transform_govern ment?language=en
- 47. 18F US Example • The US government has acted on the suggestion made by Clay Shirky regarding using open source knowledge sharing approaches modelled after GitHub in a site called 18F.
- 48. 18F • 18F builds effective, user-centric digital services focused on the interaction between government and the people and businesses it serves. • https://18f.gsa.gov/
- 49. Federal Election Commission’s 1st API:
- 51. July 2015 Digital Gov Citizen Service Summit • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A- eTaJbY9fQ
- 52. UK 300 Days of Transformation • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oj47rfLfos &index=31&list=PLN_zD14Oe6QFNXuhh2yStaIg_ nZgH9PYN
- 53. Queensland Digital Economic Strategy • Source: http://www.godigitalqld.dsitia.qld.gov.au/welco me-to-godigitalqld
- 54. Code So There Is A Tomorrow • This concept was inspired by the January, 2015 “Code for America” presentation that Jennifer Pahlka delivered that was posted to youtube. • Link to the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Uo- JpzadE
- 55. Code So There Is A Tomorrow • Where doing the right thing is both meaningful and fun! • Screen grab from Jennifer’s Code for America Google Talk:
- 56. Code So There Is Tomorrow “Army of Lightness” • Incorporating a quote from Jennifer Pahlka’s Google Talk • Things happen because we the people make them happen! • Code So There Is A Tomorrow is about harnessing all sectors of society that collaborate to create their “Army of Lightness” at their local university to solve their local ‘wicked problems’.
- 57. Pahle Rejects Waterfall Project Management • The following screen grab from Jennifer Pahlka’s Google Talk makes the above point:
- 58. If government can’t implement the policies it creates, it can’t govern.
- 59. 21st Century “Space” Program for the World’s Wicked Problems Essentially what the previous Google Energy conclusion suggests is that the world’s four key sectors of: 1.Private, 2.Public, 3.Plural-social and the 4. Education or ‘Sharing knowledge-K2∞’ All of the above sectors must all collaborate globally with the same intensity and focus the US deployed in the early years of the space program!
- 60. Google Example on Energy • http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/wh at-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change
- 61. Google’s Energy Conclusion • To reverse climate change, our society requires something beyond today’s renewable energy technologies. Fortunately, new discoveries are changing the way we think about physics, nanotechnology, and biology all the time. While humanity is currently on a trajectory to severe climate change, this disaster can be averted if researchers aim for goals that seem nearly impossible. • Now, R&D dollars must go to inventors who are tackling the daunting energy challenge so they can boldly try out their crazy ideas. We can’t yet imagine which of these technologies will ultimately work and usher in a new era of prosperity—but the people of this prosperous future won’t be able to imagine how we lived without them. • Source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it- would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change
- 62. How To Change The Future • The following youtube video introduces Kahane’s approaches worthy of our consideration: • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGS9Vq 0FGA
- 63. How To Change The Future • Adam Kahane has worked on some of the most difficult or ‘wicked” problems of the world including apartheid. • Because of his work throughout the world, it is suggested that his body of work be considered in supporting creating a future that we all want and need.
- 64. You Can’t Legislate The Unknown • The point that Google researchers on energy made about emulating the US space program is directly relevant to the idea about legislation. • To inspire the nation President Kennedy did not propose a US ‘man on the moon’ act, but he did eloquently describe a vision that inspired US citizens. • We need a similar vision for the resolution of the world’s ‘wicked’ problems.
- 65. “Wicked” Problem Resolution Is Not About Legislation It Is About Action • The suggested focus of this paper is that all sectors of society focus on action that creates ways to solve the world’s wicked problems. • Action focus through global open source collaboration that taps the best and brightest of all sectors!
- 66. Code So There Is A Tomorrow • Collaborate globally to solve ‘wicked problems’ locally. • Use open source, open government, open data and share what you learn locally to help others globally solve their ‘wicked problems’. • Where open philosophies float everyone’s ‘wicked problem’ boats!
- 67. Conclusion • Open Source Global Collaboration on the World’s Wicked Problems by all sectors of society, including private, pubic, plural-social and education sectors. • If we are to have a tomorrow as a species humanity must find a way for all sectors on the planet to share knowledge to create the innovation necessary for us to solve the world’s wicked problems!