Institutions
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Our society depends on trust: trust in our institutions, in science, trust in our leaders, trust in our news outlets.
I, overly optimistically, had hoped that this crisis was an opportunity for Greece, for Europe, for the world, to make radical democratic transformations in our
institutions.
Today we have globalized the markets but we have not globalized our democratic
institutions.
Now, I think, knowing this, we can take decisive steps to preserve our democratic institutions, to do what humans do best, which is adapt.
But robotic weapons might be every bit as dangerous, because they will almost certainly be used, and they would also be corrosive to our democratic
institutions.
Willful blindness exists on epic scales like those, and it also exists on very small scales, in people's families, in people's homes and communities, and particularly in organizations and
institutions.
They're hugely dedicated to the
institutions
that they work for, and the reason that they speak up, the reason they insist on seeing, is because they care so much about the institution and want to keep it healthy.
The Party happens to be one of the most meritocratic political
institutions
in the world today.
Fortunately, more and more
institutions
are implementing the more holistic models that I and a few of my colleagues have introduced to the field of soundscape ecology.
Our leaders, some of our great
institutions
are failing us.
And that's showing you that people are actually placing trust in technology, and it's started to trump and disrupt and interrogate traditional
institutions
and how we think about currencies and money.
But you get the gist, so people have really started to sort of lose faith in
institutions.
So we're a media design firm, and we're working with a broad array of different
institutions
building media installations for museums and public spaces.
In fact, we live in a 21st-century world of interdependence, and brutal interdependent problems, and when we look for solutions in politics and in democracy, we are faced with political
institutions
designed 400 years ago, autonomous, sovereign nation-states with jurisdictions and territories separate from one another, each claiming to be able to solve the problem of its own people.
Twenty-first-century, transnational world of problems and challenges, 17th-century world of political
institutions.
And like many others, I've been thinking about what can one do about this, this asymmetry between 21st-century challenges and archaic and increasingly dysfunctional political
institutions
like nation-states.
Because I think you will find, when we talk about cities, we are talking about the political
institutions
in which civilization and culture were born.
Cities are not only the oldest of institutions, they're the most enduring.
More than three out of four people live in urban institutions, urban places, in cities today.
There are scores of international, inter-city, cross-border institutions, networks of cities in which cities are already, quite quietly, below the horizon, working together to deal with climate change, to deal with security, to deal with immigration, to deal with all of those tough, interdependent problems that we face.
I'm inclined to think it may have declined in some activities or some
institutions
and it might have grown in others.
Across the last few decades, we've tried to construct systems of accountability for all sorts of
institutions
and professionals and officials and so on that will make it easier for us to judge their trustworthiness.
Well every day, all over the place, it's being done by ordinary people, by officials, by institutions, quite effectively.
We can, we must, but these four elements must all be present: Political leaders and the public must care to solve a problem;
institutions
must support its solution; It must really be a technological problem; and we must understand it.
Other
institutions
can utilize them to do important work, but only business can create them.
Africa's markets are weak not only because of weak infrastructure in terms of roads and telecommunications, but also because of the virtual absence of necessary market institutions, such as market information, grades and standards, and reliable ways to connect buyers and sellers.
We now recognize that getting markets right is about not just price incentives, but also investing in the right infrastructure and the appropriate and necessary
institutions
to create the conditions to unleash the power of innovation in the market.
And so, differences aside, what these three organizations share is on the one hand, a very clear understanding that
institutions
cannot be imposed from the top, but rather they are built from the bottom up one interaction at a time.
Together with two academic institutions, Michael Porter at Harvard Business School, and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, BCG has formed something we call ICHOM.
It's particularly a cultural crisis, a crisis of the
institutions
unable to reimagine the stupid ways which we have been growing, unable to challenge the oil-hungry, selfish urbanization that have perpetuated cities based on consumption, from southern California to New York to Dubai.
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