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Wiki & #tags harnessing MIT alumni for society-wide sustainable development by Wikinetix

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This kind of use of social media to address global challenges is clearly the property of millennials and younger. Alumni of may own age would probably not participate as fully but that may not be a bad thing. This forum would be aimed at the future by those who will be around to experience it and may reflect their priorities rather than ours.

It appears to be feasible if I understand all the references, but is uncertain in terms of impact. Does an open forum solve problems or just give people a chance to vent. I don't think we can answer this question without seeing what happens in real time.

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Jan Goossenaerts

Feb 22, 2016
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In my contribution I didn't go into much detail regarding the problem solving impact of my proposition. One reason being that I myself haven't much recent "real time" successes to report about.

Looking at conditions/recommendations for success in "institutional reform projects", as described in a recent book Limits of Institutional Reform in Development by Matt Andrew, and summarized in a recent review of the book by Aurelie Valtat, the proposed collaboration platform/approach can be used in such a way that Andrew's recommendations (for a problem-driven iterative approach) are put into practice on a large scale, and for many initiatives in parallel - the book review lists several points regarding:

 

  • improving institutional reforms (these will also be necessary in addressing climate change)
  • making reforms more relevant to their context
  • improving reforms that are internally executed, but externally influenced

 

Two pictures at http://www.actor-atlas.info/global-resource:a4 describe on the one hand the landscape (1st picture) in which multiple "parallel" plans will be required (2nd picture, using enterprise architecture notation).