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But, you know, in many parts of the world, governments are not interested in opening up or in serving the poor, and it is a real challenge for those who want to change the system.
We need to radically open up development so knowledge flows in multiple directions, inspiring practitioners, so aid becomes transparent, accountable and effective, so governments open up and citizens are engaged and empowered with reformers in government.
I am not against wind energy, but we need to work with the governments, because wind turbines do this to birds.
We need to work with governments in regional levels.
I wonder if there's a third concern that some people here have already expressed, which is where, not governments, but big corporations control all our data.
Yuval Noah Harari: Well, in the end, there isn't such a big difference between the corporations and the governments, because, as I said, the questions is: Who controls the data?
And the Arab Spring has produced governments, many of them Islamist governments, who know that, for their own self-preservation, they need to take on the extremists in their midsts.
Local governments need to set up effective systems for reviewing the ethical issues around the clinical trials which are authorized in different developing countries, and they need to do this by setting up ethical review committees that are independent of the government and research sponsors.
They asked governments for supporting regulatory regimes, and in a lot of cases they got it.
So here the nodes are companies, people, governments, foundations, etc.
Right now today, in Oslo as it happens, oil companies are fighting to keep secret their payments to governments for extracting oil in developing countries.
EM: Since our primary competitors are national governments, the enforceability of patents is questionable.(Laughter)
What I mean is that our problem isn't the NSA, neither our corrupt governments, neither ambitious companies that want to sell our data, neither bad people, and it has nothing to do with their intentions, nor with their bad intentions.
They've found in many developing countries that governments have gone in and given out free latrines and gone back a few years later and found that they've got lots of new goat sheds or temples or spare rooms with their owners happily walking past them and going over to the open defecating ground.
And that's actually crucial because if we're going to get increased investment in early childhood programs, we need to interest state governments in this.
The federal government has a lot on its plate, and state governments are going to have to step up.
Central or state governments decide, they know best and they're going to tell you what to do.
And when this started to get serious, I thought, I'd better put a really serious warning label on the box that this comes in, because otherwise people are going to be getting this and they're going to be turning into agents of creative change, and governments will be crumbling, and I wouldn't have told people, so I thought I'd better warn them.
Now in a world of cheap, proliferating robotic weapons, borders would offer very little protection to critics of distant governments or trans-national criminal organizations.
Autocratic governments and criminal organizations undoubtedly will, but let's not join them.
Some battle oppressive governments.
So the question I started my talk with, who do you think is more difficult to face, oppressive governments or oppressive societies?
In the last 10 years, our team at National Geographic Pristine Seas has explored, surveyed and documented some of the wildest places left in the ocean and worked with governments to protect them.
And second, every year, governments subsidize high seas fishing with more than four billion dollars.
Governments get elected, and then they fall below 50 percent approval in a few months and stay there and get worse until the next election.
We can take them to our families, to our schools, even to our governments.
We can hold those governments accountable.
And what's interesting is that you can see that hierarchy is having a bit of a wobble, and it's all about heterarchical now, so people trust people like themselves more than they trust corporations and governments.
People are actually trusting businesspeople more than they're trusting governments and leaders.
So you can buy apps and make purchases within those apps, but you think about Amazon, you look at the trust barometer that I showed you where people are starting to trust businesses, especially businesses that they believe in and trust more than governments.
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