Geoff Mulgan delivered the keynote presentation at Socitm 2009. There is a summary of this presentation and a short interview with Geoff free-to-view at www.socitm09.net.
3. 42 per cent of councils have an
official Twitter account to
communicate to citizens, 22 per
cent have an official Facebook
profile.
4. 42 per cent of councils have an
official Twitter account to
communicate to citizens, 22 per
cent have an official Facebook
profile.
But how many know
how to be a friend?
13. Starting with insights into needs, and
compelling questions ...
– What can be done to reduce isolation in old age?
– What kind of school would have teenagers fighting to get in, not
to keep out?
– How can a city think?
– What makes people happy?
– What if everyone became a teacher and a learner?
– How can power reflect the people its meant to serve?
– What would most transform the potential of an unemployed
young person?
... and translate into practical impact
through ventures, projects
23. Bubbles, recessions & golden ages
TURNING
INSTALLATION PERIOD POINT DEPLOYMENT PERIOD
Bubble Golden Age
1771
Britain Canal mania 1793–97 Great
British leap
1829
Britain Railway mania 1848–50 The Victorian Boom
1875
Britain / USA London funded global market Belle Époque (Europe)
Germany infrastructure build-up 1890–95
(Argentina, Australia, USA) “Progressive Era” (USA)
Europe
1908 The roaring 1929–33 Post-war
USA twenties USA Golden age
1929–43
1971 Telecom mania, Internet
emerging markets Sustainable global
USA 2000/7–?
and NASDAQ knowledge-society ”golden age”?
Each Golden Age facilitated
by enabling regulation and policies for shaping and widening markets
24. 20 – 30 years 20 – 30 years
INSTALLATION PERIOD DEPLOYMENT PERIOD
MATURITY
Degree of diffusion of the technological revolution
SYNERGY
TURNING POINT
Market
Financial saturation
Bubble and
Technological social
explosion Golden Age unrest
FRENZY
IRRUPTION
Time
big‐bang Institutional Next
Crash big‐bang
recomposition
25. • Explains why computers were everywhere except in
the productivity statistics
• Why some powerful ideas never made it (and some
very bad ones did)
• Why a crash was likely – and what good could come
out of it
26. • A surge of implementation – cogno, nano, info, bio –
but different models
• Institutional innovation to enable this – radical change to
business models, regulations &c
• Social industries as key source of GDP, jobs growth
(health, care, education, environmental services)
• Productivity pressures in public sector as key field for
radical innovation
47. Intellipedia
• 16 key US security agencies use a
wiki‐style application to share
knowledge in real time
• Over 30,000 articles and 114 new
articles and more than 4,800 edits to
articles added each workday
Mr Richard A Russell, Deputy Assistant Director of National Intelligence said it was
created so "analysts in different agencies that work on X or Y can go in and see
what other people are doing on subject X or Y and actually add in their two cents
worth ... or documents that they have." "What we’re after here is 'decision
superiority,' not 'information superiority',"
71. Systematic innovation to explore the
new frontiers of productivity
• Economies of scale – eg aggregating call centres, platforms
like the School of Everything
• Economies of scope – eg one stop shops, multi‐purpose
personal advisers, neighbourhood media
• Economies of flow – eg hospitals specialising in a few
operations, Health Impact Contracts/Social Impact Bonds
• Economies of penetration – eg Combined Heat and Power,
street concierges
• Economies of responsibility ‐ personal assembly models,
public service platforms