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Corporations are filling gaps that governments can't afford to fill.

But I think business leaders can bring their entrepreneurial know-how and help governments approach things slightly differently.

They have strange names: UCLG, United Cities and Local Governments; ICLEI, the International Council for Local Environmental Issues.

Technology can improve things like crop yields or systems for storing and transporting food, but there will be famines so long as there are bad governments.

The governments that are making the most progress are the governments that have found ways to enable shared value in business rather than see government as the only player that has to call the shots.

However, I am saying that on balance, they worry more about where their living standard improvements are going to come from, and how it is their governments can deliver for them, than whether or not the government was elected by democracy.

But perhaps it's also telling us that we should be worried about going around the world and shoehorning democracy, because ultimately we run the risk of ending up with illiberal democracies, democracies that in some sense could be worse than the authoritarian governments that they seek to replace.

There was a very influential book about that, which was mainly about getting governments out of the market.

When public sector debt is low, governments don't have to choose between investing in education and health and paying interest on that debt you owe.

So democracy is encouraging governments to invest in education.

Education is helping growth and investment, and that's giving budget revenues, which is giving governments more money, which is helping growth through education.

But also, I'm sure you all have had experience with local, regional, national governments, and you're kind of like, "You know what, that Kafka-ian bureaucrat, I've met him."

In several countries, doctors and nurses are the targets, to some extent, for the governments.

All big societies that have governments, and where most people are strangers to each other, are inevitably similar to each other and different from tribal societies.

In 1970, governments set themselves a target to increase overseas aid payments to 0.7 percent of their national income.

Governments have been aiming to get aid to 0.7 percent for years, so let's set the limit at half of that, 0.35 percent of their income.

To match the aid payments made by those governments over the last four years, Print Aid would have generated 200 billion dollars' worth of extra aid.

Governments are still incentivized to give.

And we need industry structures that will accommodate very, very different motivations, from the amateur motivations of people in communities to maybe the social motivations of infrastructure built by governments, or, for that matter, cooperative institutions built by companies that are otherwise competing, because that is the only way that they can get to scale.

It also captured the attention of authoritarian governments in other countries, who were worried that revolution would spread.

Of course, it's no secret that governments are able to intercept telephone calls and text messages.

There have now been over the last few years an industry of companies who provide surveillance technology to governments, specifically technology that allows those governments to hack into the computers of surveillance targets.

Gamma is a German company that manufactures surveillance software and sells it only to governments.

It's important to note that most governments don't really have the in-house capabilities to develop this software.

Of course, he's also acknowledged that once the software has been sold to governments, he has no way of knowing how it can be used.

Christopher Soghoian: So, it would be funny if it wasn't true, but, in fact, Hacking Team's software is being sold to governments around the world.

So as I said before, governments that don't really have the resources to build their own tools will buy off-the-shelf surveillance software, and so for that reason, you see that the government of, say, Tunisia, might use the same software as the government of Germany.

There's sort of a big problem with governments going into hacking, and that's that terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, journalists and human rights activists all use the same kinds of computers.

We all use the same technology, and what that means then is that for governments to have the capability to hack into the computers of the real bad guys, they also have to have the capability to hack into our devices too.

So governments around the world have been embracing this technology.

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