In order for us to tackle the toughest problems in the world we need to start by making sure that there are open lines of communication. Communication and listening are two significant factor that will allow those in the United States (and around the world) to work with others nations to finally begin tackling issues like poverty in a wholistic way that creates local solutions. This TED Talk by Hector Ruiz opens up the discussion of connecting the entire world through the internet.
This is an incredibly interesting video. New Gingrich has an organization called American Solutions. This video is about e-government solutions. This is a really interesting website. It’s a non-partisan organization that is designed to provide real solutions to our country’s issues. You may not agree with everything, but what makes this cool is that you can send in your solutions to problems and organize around topics, themes, etc and then start being proactive to get things done. Very interesting and here’s the video…
This is a great video from TED Talks that speaks to institutions vs. collaboration. For me this raises an important question: how do we create institutions that build collaboration into their culture? I ask this question because I don’t think that institutions are obsolete, rather I think that there are certain functions that institutions once provided that can be done through collaboration. Essentially, there are some elements of institutions lend themselves to the collaborative effort of the whole. The whole here is in reference to those on the internet as recent technological advancements have made collaboration and communication cheap, easy, and effective.
What is improtant in this video is the fact that institutions must find ways to make collaboration intuitive. If you look at this from a larger perspective this also applies to governments at the local, national, and international levels.
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