We live in a world of rapid change with big shifts in many areas of society. Large Silicon Valley corporations deliver services that government traditionally has delivered, and exponential technology development makes it increasingly difficult for government and legislators to keep up.
Furthermore, we have in the past years seen an increasing distrust in political institutions on all levels. One consequence of this is a global movement of citizen-led societal innovation through initiatives such as makerspaces, repair cafés, tool libraries, co-operatives and community sharing through social media. I.e. citizens begin to take things in their own hands.
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15.11.18 Local govt in the 21st century - enkel collective
1. LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
CREATING RESILIENT & EMPOWERED COMMUNITIES
15 Nov 2018
Adam Jorlen &
Karun Cowper
@enkelcollective
enkel.co
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2. TODAY
1. GLOBAL SHIFTS
2. EMERGING TREND / RESPONSE #1 –
A COMMONS TRANSITION
3. EMERGING TREND / RESPONSE #2 -
THE SHARING ECONOMY
4. EMERGING TREND / RESPONSE #3 -
LOCALISATION OF OUR ECONOMY
5. NEXT STEPS
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3. BUT FIRST: WHAT IS ENKEL?
• A collective of people from various backgrounds, who
share the belief that we need new approaches and
more people to address the problems of today and
tomorrow.
• Our mission is to create a new generation of
changemakers in WA.
• A non-profit cooperative
• 25 members spread over Perth.
• Events, workshops, courses, consulting, collaboration
spaces – most recently in East Vic Park. Next year in
Fremantle.
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6. Brought together people who are engaged in all aspects of the new
economy in Western Australia, including: cooperatives, blockchain for
good, sharing projects, circular economy, renewable energy, sustainable
food systems, affordable housing, ecological economics, sustainable
transport, community banking and more.
7. BACKGROUND
SOME BIG GLOBAL SHIFTS…
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Adam Jorlen, Futurist
MSc, MMgmt Strategic Foresight
Member Association of Professional
Futurists, World Futures Studies Federation
@adamjorlen @enkelcollective
8. BACKGROUND : SOME BIG GLOBAL SHIFTS…
Big shifts are underway.
We’re in a post-normal era.
Global trends are impacting on WA –
whether we want it or not.
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10. SOME BIG SHIFTS…
#1: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGY
“We always overestimate the change that will
occur in the next two years and underestimate
the change that will occur in the next ten.
Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.”
Bill Gates
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11. Everything that
can be digitized
will be digitized.
SOME BIG SHIFTS…
#1: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGY
Self-driving
Cars
Robots and Artificial
Intelligence
Solar Energy
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12. SOME BIG SHIFTS…
#1: EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGY
$5 Linux Computer with Wi-Fi
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13. SOME BIG SHIFTS…
#2: FROM INSTITUTIONS TO PLATFORMS
èIncreased Corporate Influence…
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14. SOME BIG SHIFTS…
#2: FROM INSTITUTIONS TO PLATFORMS
• Platform provided by big organisations and users
produce content.
• Crowdsourcing an example of this. People provide
solutions to problems.
• What would a local government platform look
like?
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15. SOME BIG SHIFTS…
#2: FROM INSTITUTIONS TO PLATFORMS
The City as a physical platform.
Who provides the content?
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16. SOME BIG SHIFTS…
#3: FROM OWNERSHIP TO ACCESS
I Don’t Need a Drill.
I Need a Hole in the Wall.
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17. Everything that
can be digitized
will be digitized.
“He’s got a huge
record collection…”
SOME BIG SHIFTS…
#3: FROM OWNERSHIP TO ACCESS
18. Everything that
can be digitized
will be digitized.
SOME BIG SHIFTS…
#3: FROM OWNERSHIP TO ACCESS
19. • Distrust in the people in
power
• Frustration with the system
• Populism
• Uncertainty
SOME BIG SHIFTS…
#4: DISTRUST IN INSTITUTIONS
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20. LOCAL GOVT. CHALLENGE
“Traditional policy levers are losing traction due to an increasing collective
awareness of the wicked and complex nature of social challenges:
Whilst the scope of what local authorities can do seems to be shrinking,
paradoxically the demands on what they should seek to achieve as primary
custodians of local places has grown.”
Dark Matter Labs, UK
21. A SHIFT TOWARDS A CITIZEN-LED SOCIETY?
#3 From Ownership
to access
#4 Distrust in
Institutions
#1 Exponential
Technology
#2 From institutions
to platforms.
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22. WHAT WOULD BE THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
IN A CITIZEN-LED SOCIETY?
#3 From Ownership
to access
#4 Distrust in
Institutions
#1 Exponential
Technology
#2 From institutions
to platforms.enkel collective 2018
50. SHARING CITIES:
ACTIVATING THE URBAN COMMONS
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Presentation by Darren
Sharp
• The Australian editor
of Shareable
• Melbourne coordinator of
the Sharing Cities
Network
• Co-authored the
book Sharing Cities:
Activating the Urban
Commons
52. BRINGING BACK PRODUCTION TO LOCAL
COMMUNITIES
• Do-It-Yourself
• 3D printing
• Your own off-grid
energy production
• Tiny housing
• Urban Farming
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53. BRINGING BACK PRODUCTION TO LOCAL
COMMUNITIES
Why is this happening?
• Corporate ownership of production / distribution, i.e. $
more important than quality.
• Industrialized processes è
Lack of control, unhealthy
products.
• Unsustainable Transports.
• Increasing speed in the world.
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56. First you join your Village Hive. When
you sign up you are linked with people
who live within 250m of you. You can
message them, share wheel barrows,
ladders and power drills, organise
events with them, ask for advice, run
time banking services like babysitting
clubs, find others with shared passions
and create local projects.
Then there’s Sharing hive…
And then there’s Giving hive…
58. MAKERLABS, HACKSPACES OR FABLABS
Makerlabs, Hackspaces or Fablabs are community 3D printing and
fabrication workshops that support small businesses, schools and
entrepreneurial and creative individuals.
Such as the Perth Artifactory!
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60. “A platform to regain the ownership of our food system.
To build connections with producers and each other. To
revolutionize how we engage with food.”
SHARING: FREO FOOD
65. SO WHAT’S THE FUTURE ROLE OF
THE PUBLIC SECTOR IN ALL THIS?
66.
67. FUNDING?
Not much funding available for a
commons transition in WA but there
are grants and money in other related
fields like activation, smart cities,
community, sustainability, innovation.
68. WHAT’S IN IT FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT?
• Community Building
• Mitigating environmental and social problems which
from globalisation.
• Participatory Democracy, empowerment, sense of
“ownership” and being able to decide the future of the
city.
• Resilience, self-sufficiency
• Smart cities
• Cost savings for Local Govt
69. BECOME A PARTNER CITY
A state form that enables and empowers the social
creation of value by its citizens.
Here, government acts like a "facilitator" rather than
taking a traditional top-down approach.
70. DISCUSS AROUND YOUR TABLE
What can WA local governments do to respond to the new
demands of citizens as commoners and reinforce initiatives?
How can we turn city users into city makers?
What may be the role of local government in facilitating a social-
ecological transition?
What institutional adaptations would favour such a role?
71. NEXT STEPS
Michel Bauwens from the p2p Foundation, who has assisted in many
commons transitions initiatives across the world, suggests the
following initial steps:
1. Map what’s already there. Who is doing good work in your place?
What are they doing? Where?
2. Make a common transitions plan
