Governments more than ever are under pressure to implement a new system of distributed governance that is focused on service, solutions and collaboration. Developing new capabilities for facilitating relationships with external partners that allow for flexibility, efficiency and co-creation has led governments to outsourcing and unbundling services as a way of accessing external expertise and delivering services more cost-effectively – from within their…
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Civic Ecology Is An Anchor In An Era Of Disruptive Change.
August 7, 2016 No Comment 30 ViewsUrbanization is a global phenomenon that we’ve traditionally viewed as a social-technological process, but it is also a social-ecological process where cities are increasingly building to include biodiversity and sustainable systems that shift the ways in which we work, interact and live. As urbanization expands (remember the recent stats we quoted that have the world’s population exploding to around 9 billion by 2050?), we’re considering the impacts…
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NANCY’S BLOG: Why (and How) Gigaom Change.
August 1, 2016 No Comment 125 ViewsSeveral years ago New York Times media futurist, Nick Bilton, described our need to take in ever growing amounts of information in three sizes: bytes, snacks and meals. While I’ve used that framework for many years, I’m wondering if there is a new addition: the blur. Those are the hundreds of headlines I scroll through quickly several times a day on Twitter, Facebook. Linkedin, Medium, Google Alerts, curated eblasts/newsletters, and now via personalized news…
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