Institutions
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All these red lines are the invisible political
institutions
that were inscribed in that leftover empty space.
You know, we hear often about good ol' boy networks and they're certainly alive and well in many
institutions.
How is that model of colossal sharing across all of those kinds of databases compatible with the business models of
institutions
and organizations and corporations that are involved in this business today?
The scaling in the opposite direction, towards things like big data, drive the structure of business towards the creation of new kinds of
institutions
that can achieve that scale.
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.
So we have to first get rid of the systemically dangerous
institutions.
These are the so-called too-big-to-fail
institutions.
They have produced crony capitalism, American-style, in which the largest financial
institutions
are the leading financial donors of both parties, and that's the reason why even after this crisis, 70 times larger than the savings and loan crisis, we have no meaningful reforms in any of the three areas that I've talked about, other than banning liar's loans, which is good, but that's just one form of ammunition for this fraud weapon.
And as we went around talking to researchers and
institutions
and telling them about our story, something happened.
The march towards gay equality accelerated at a pace that surprised and shocked everyone, and is still reshaping our laws and our policies, our
institutions
and our entire country.
But over time, with our 1980s federal practices, a lot of these community
institutions
fell into disrepair.
So the Internet caused innovation, at least in software and services, to go from an MBA-driven innovation model to a designer-engineer-driven innovation model, and it pushed innovation to the edges, to the dorm rooms, to the startups, away from the large institutions, the stodgy old
institutions
that had the power and the money and the authority.
But we should be getting out there ourselves and not depending on large
institutions
to do it for us.
It's not bad, but it's very different, and I think that the traditional rules that we have for
institutions
don't work anymore, and most of us here operate with a different set of principles.
Since that time, Mr. Bihi, who directs the no-budget Somali Education and Advocacy Center, has been vocally denouncing the recruitment and the failures of government and Somali-American
institutions
like the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center where he believes his nephew was radicalized during a youth program.
It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much personal information and to so many
institutions.
But of course, I think, the
institutions
are responsible to stop illegal actions in Germany or wherever they happen.
To be honest with you, preventing crime takes so much more from so many more people and
institutions.
Recount all the different ways that you engaged the systems of government, of the marketplace, of social institutions, of faith organizations, of the media.
Then we realized that there were many organizations working with farmers: seed companies, microfinance institutions, mobile phone companies, government agencies.
So we recruited undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and professors from different
institutions
and multiple disciplines to come together and work on this idea that I conceived as a sophomore in college.
And also, extreme inequality can be bad for our democratic
institutions
if it creates very unequal access to political voice, and the influence of private money in U.S. politics, I think, is a matter of concern right now.
Let's think about it this way: We are 21st-century citizens, doing our very, very best to interact with 19th century-designed
institutions
that are based on an information technology of the 15th century.
What
institutions
do we want to build for the 21st-century society?
This realization was exploited most powerfully for pragmatic ends by the 18th- century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who set out to resolve an important problem ushered in by the industrial age, where, for the first time,
institutions
had become so large and centralized that they were no longer able to monitor and therefore control each one of their individual members, and the solution that he devised was an architectural design originally intended to be implemented in prisons that he called the panopticon, the primary attribute of which was the construction of an enormous tower in the center of the institution where whoever controlled the institution could at any moment watch any of the inmates, although they couldn't watch all of them at all times.
And that becomes very clear when we look into three aspects of city life: first, our citizens' willingness to engage with democratic institutions; second, our cities' ability to really include all of their residents; and lastly, our own ability to live fulfilling and happy lives.
It's because in Africa, we have weak institutions, like the judiciary, the constitution, civil society and so forth.
So here's a general rule of thumb that I believe in: When societies have strong institutions, the difference that one good leader can make is limited, but when you have weak institutions, then just one good leader can make or break that country.
The second thing that this generation needs to do is to create our
institutions.
They need to build these
institutions
such that we are never held to ransom again by a few individuals like Robert Mugabe.
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