12.5 “City Olympics”
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– thinking global,
– acting local (and diverse),
– experimentation,
– learning from each other, and
– helping each other.
The approach would be scalable. It would be more diverse and less vulnerable to
disruptions than today’s attempted global governance approaches. It would, furthermore, promote innovation and collective intelligence, while being compatible with
privacy, freedom, participation, democracy, and a high quality of life. If cities would
open up and engage in co-creation and sharing, they would quickly become more
innovative and efficient. This brings us to the next subject.
12.6 Open Everything, Making, and Citizen Science
In recent years, we have seen the spread of new ways of addressing problems—both
local and global. We are seeing novel solutions to problems that politics and capitalism 1.0 could not fix. These solutions are often based on the engagement of citizens
and on contributions by civil society. Such contributions are plentiful and diverse.
They are often useful and effective, particularly in places, where problems have not
been noticed and fixed by business or politics, because they were too particular or
too remote.
These new solutions have often been based on open approaches, ranging from
Open Access over Open Data and Open Source to Open Innovation. Frequently,
such approaches have been able to catalyze massive public engagement. Think of
the thousands of hackathons in the past years. In the “We versus Virus Hackathon”,
for example, 40.000 people have been mobilized to work on solutions of all kinds.
79
However, public institutions still need to learn, how to integrate the power of
collective action into public policies.
This concerns crowd-sourced approaches of all kinds: crowdsourcing,
80 crowdfunding,
81 and crowdsensing,
82 for example. Citizen Science has been another
remarkable recent development, which has been able to address complex problems
that machine learning could not tackle alone.
83 In the meantime, Citizen Science
79 See https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/knowledge/hackathon-on-corona-wirvsvirus-bringssolutions.
80 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing.
81 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding.
82 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsensing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participa
tory_sensing.
83 Hand [37]; https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/09/30/accelerating-use-citizen-sci
ence-and-crowdsourcing-address-societal-and-scientific.
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– thinking global,
– acting local (and diverse),
– experimentation,
– learning from each other, and
– helping each other.
The approach would be scalable. It would be more diverse and less vulnerable to
disruptions than today’s attempted global governance approaches. It would, furthermore, promote innovation and collective intelligence, while being compatible with
privacy, freedom, participation, democracy, and a high quality of life. If cities would
open up and engage in co-creation and sharing, they would quickly become more
innovative and efficient. This brings us to the next subject.
12.6 Open Everything, Making, and Citizen Science
In recent years, we have seen the spread of new ways of addressing problems—both
local and global. We are seeing novel solutions to problems that politics and capitalism 1.0 could not fix. These solutions are often based on the engagement of citizens
and on contributions by civil society. Such contributions are plentiful and diverse.
They are often useful and effective, particularly in places, where problems have not
been noticed and fixed by business or politics, because they were too particular or
too remote.
These new solutions have often been based on open approaches, ranging from
Open Access over Open Data and Open Source to Open Innovation. Frequently,
such approaches have been able to catalyze massive public engagement. Think of
the thousands of hackathons in the past years. In the “We versus Virus Hackathon”,
for example, 40.000 people have been mobilized to work on solutions of all kinds.
79
However, public institutions still need to learn, how to integrate the power of
collective action into public policies.
This concerns crowd-sourced approaches of all kinds: crowdsourcing,
80 crowdfunding,
81 and crowdsensing,
82 for example. Citizen Science has been another
remarkable recent development, which has been able to address complex problems
that machine learning could not tackle alone.
83 In the meantime, Citizen Science
79 See https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/knowledge/hackathon-on-corona-wirvsvirus-bringssolutions.
80 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing.
81 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding.
82 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsensing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participa
tory_sensing.
83 Hand [37]; https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/09/30/accelerating-use-citizen-sci
ence-and-crowdsourcing-address-societal-and-scientific.