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My acquaintance with the statistics of human progress, starting with violence but now encompassing every other aspect of our well-being, has fortified my belief that in understanding our tribulations and woes, human nature is the problem, but human nature, channeled by Enlightenment norms and institutions, is also the solution.
And our puny rational faculties have been multiplied by the norms and
institutions
of reason, intellectual curiosity, open debate, skepticism of authority and dogma and the burden of proof to verify ideas by confronting them against reality.
This, of course, is not true for the students who graduate from the top institutions, but for many others, they do not get the value for their time and their effort.
Scott Page: Models help us design more effective
institutions
and policies.
And one of the things that I want to question is this very popular hope these days that transparency and openness can restore the trust in democratic
institutions.
Because especially now with the economic crisis, you can see that the trust in politics, that the trust in democratic institutions, was really destroyed.
Transparency is not about restoring trust in
institutions.
But as well as being regenerative by design, our economies must be distributive by design, and we've got unprecedented opportunities for making that happen, because 20th-century centralized technologies, institutions, concentrated wealth, knowledge and power in few hands.
This century, we can design our technologies and
institutions
to distribute wealth, knowledge and empowerment to many.
But perhaps most heartbreaking of all are the stories of the abuse of even the most basic human rights, such as the young woman shown in this image here that are played out every day, sadly, even in the very
institutions
that were built to care for people with mental illnesses, the mental hospitals.
We need to deliver health care, not in large institutions, but close to people's homes, and we need to deliver health care using whoever is available and affordable in our local communities.
They work on the cure for cancer and educating our children and making roads, but we don't have
institutions
that are particularly good at this kind of complexity.
We don't have
institutions
that are good at bringing our talents to bear, at working with us in this kind of open and collaborative way.
But the way that our
institutions
are designed, in our rather 18th-century, centralized model, is to channel the flow of values through voting, once every four years, once every two years, at best, once a year.
We need to only look around this room to know that expertise and intelligence is widely distributed in society, and not limited simply to our
institutions.
The same can be said for our social systems, for our systems of government, where, at the very least, flow offers us a helpful metaphor for understanding what the problem is, what's really broken, and the urgent need that we have, that we all feel today, to redesign the flow of our
institutions.
We live in a Cambrian era of big data, of social networks, and we have this opportunity to redesign these
institutions
that are actually quite recent.
We invest in broadband and science education and science grants, but we invest far too little in reinventing and redesigning the
institutions
that we have.
Today we have the opportunity, and we have the imperative, to create thousands of new ways of interconnecting between networks and institutions, thousands of new kinds of juries: the citizen jury, the Carrotmob, the hackathon, we are just beginning to invent the models by which we can cocreate the process of governance.
And the Red Cross too is training volunteers and Twitter is certifying them, not simply to supplement existing government institutions, but in many cases, to replace them.
When we start by teaching young people that we live, not in a passive society, a read-only society, but in a writable society, where we have the power to change our communities, to change our institutions, that's when we begin to really put ourselves on the pathway towards this open government innovation, towards this open government movement, towards this open government revolution.
We must open up our institutions, and like the leaf, we must let the nutrients flow throughout our body politic, throughout our culture, to create open
institutions
to create a stronger democracy, a better tomorrow.
These things were provided by
institutions
run by the people that I call leaders.
We'd find a bunch of fairly similar-looking people ... (Laughter) We'd take them out of elite institutions, we'd put them into other elite
institutions
and we'd wait for the innovation.
Support research institutions, because knowledge is an important part of wealth creation.
And all forms of intervention need support, the evolution of the kinds of
institutions
that create wealth, the kinds of
institutions
that increase productivity.
Talk to them about the kind of policies and
institutions
that are necessary for them to expand a scale and scope of business so that it can collect more tax revenues from them.
Globally, 1.3 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day, and the work I did in Uganda represents the traditional approach to these problems that has been practiced since 1944, when winners of World War II, 500 founding fathers, and one lonely founding mother, gathered in New Hampshire, USA, to establish the Bretton Woods institutions, including the World Bank.
Second, the development
institutions
that channeled these transfers were opaque, with little transparency of what they financed or what results they achieved.
And just as these North-to-South transfers are opening up, so too are the development
institutions
that channeled these transfers.
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