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We facilitate strategic conversations |
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| We periodically create original scenarios that focus on particular issues. These scenarios are short explorations of possible futures and illustrate how and why the future will be different from today. |
PAST SCENARIOS |
THE FUTURE OF GOVERNING IN HAWAI'I Distributed Democracy Distributed Democracy illustrates a future in which the traditional, central government is overwhelmed in dealing with the complex and increasingly globalized challenges to public safety and prosperity. Citizens, faced with the need to address the pressing challenges in their daily lives, make use of new mobile and information technologies to self-organize. Foreshadowed in “social media” and given life through an explosion of mobile devices and location and context-based information, these technologies offer ordinary citizens the tools to connect, organize, prioritize, and solve pressing issues. These distributed but organized groups of citizens are often much faster and more effective at connecting with each other, generating critical information, proposing innovative ideas, and mobilizing action than the agencies of the government. Pockets of citizen governance appear across the state, communities mobilizing individuals to directly govern critical issues. Over time the government not only accepts the existence of these little democracies, it comes to rely on the speed, power, and insight that arises from the disaggregated actions of dozens of organizations and thousands of citizens.
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