Keynote "The System Approach in Resiliency"
Dirk Helbing, Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland at the 4th Annual Conference on Community Resiliency
This talk was delivered by Dr Sharon Prendeville and Dr Pandora Syeprek as part of the Design and Economics Unconference during April 2021.
We interrogated the socio-material “taken-for-grantedness” of the framing of the New Economy, focusing on the dualistic embededdness of the ‘constitutional trio’ of sustainability: economics, society, ecology, and their variations. The session will develop the concept of ‘frame backlash’ based on historical examples, and use this concept to develop a response to this taken-for-grantedness.
The session is based on ongoing work being conducted by the team at Counter-Framing Design: https://counter-frames.org
Why Anatha: Towards a New Economy of Abundance | Edward DeLeon Hickman Edward DeLeon Hickman
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Disruptive Ideas: Public Intellectuals and their Arguments for Action on Clim...Matthew Nisbet
March 27, 2014 presentation sponsored by the Science and Technology Studies Program, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and the School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia.
In this presentation, I review three distinct groups of prominent public intellectuals arguing for action on climate change. I discuss how these individuals establish and maintain their authority, how their ideas and arguments spread and diffuse by way of the media, and how they shape the assumptions of global networks of activists, philanthropists, journalists, and academics. Then, for each group, drawing on their main works, I describe how they define the social implications of climate change and the barriers to addressing the problem, their vision of a future society and their favored policy actions, their outlook on nature and technology, and their views on politics and social change. In the conclusion, I discuss the need for investment in media and public forums that strengthen our civic capacity to learn, debate, and collaborate in ways that take advantage of different discourses, ideas and voices.
Importance of connected communities to flood resilienceNeil Dufty
Floodplain risk management and emergency management will never protect all Victorian communities in all floods. There will always be some residual risk for communities, meaning that the focus will be on how they look after themselves particularly in large flood events. This self-ability to prepare, respond and recover will largely determine how quickly communities return to normal functioning – a measure of flood resilience.
There is a relatively large body of psychological research that identifies the factors determining people’s flood preparedness, appropriate response and effective recovery. However, according to research into disaster resilient communities, not only is the participation of individuals required, but also collective action. Several researchers have found that community connectedness (especially ‘social capital’) is a critical factor in the ability of a community to recover after a disaster.
Social capital has been defined as the ‘networks, norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit’ (Putnam, 1995). Research into recent disasters around the world, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, has shown the benefits of social capital in providing resources for a faster and more efficient recovery. Some recent post-flood evaluations conducted in Victoria also indicate the importance of social capital in flood response and recovery. Research by the Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development has shown the need for social capital formation in building general community resilience across the state.
There are several implications of these findings for floodplain and emergency agencies including the need to work with community developers in state and local government to assess and strengthen community connections through social capital formation in flood-prone Victorian communities. This should be done as a preparation for flooding to enable the different types of social capital to work in communities during and after a flood.
Another implication is that community flood education and engagement programs such as FloodSafe should include content that helps people and communities learn how to form and use social capital as part of flood preparedness.
Virtual networks and social epidemics: the convergence of two powersClaudia Berbeo
The White Paper, VIRTUAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL EPIDEMICS: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO POWERS shows how virtual social networks operate and how desired goals may be converted into epidemics. Understanding these two phenomena and using them jointly may produce major changes and milestones in enterprises, communities and nations.
This talk was delivered by Dr Sharon Prendeville and Dr Pandora Syeprek as part of the Design and Economics Unconference during April 2021.
We interrogated the socio-material “taken-for-grantedness” of the framing of the New Economy, focusing on the dualistic embededdness of the ‘constitutional trio’ of sustainability: economics, society, ecology, and their variations. The session will develop the concept of ‘frame backlash’ based on historical examples, and use this concept to develop a response to this taken-for-grantedness.
The session is based on ongoing work being conducted by the team at Counter-Framing Design: https://counter-frames.org
Why Anatha: Towards a New Economy of Abundance | Edward DeLeon Hickman Edward DeLeon Hickman
Edward DeLeon Hickman discusses how Anatha aims to move towards a new economy of abundance. To learn more about Anatha or Edward DeLeon Hickman, feel free to visit http://edwarddeleonhickman.com/
Disruptive Ideas: Public Intellectuals and their Arguments for Action on Clim...Matthew Nisbet
March 27, 2014 presentation sponsored by the Science and Technology Studies Program, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and the School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia.
In this presentation, I review three distinct groups of prominent public intellectuals arguing for action on climate change. I discuss how these individuals establish and maintain their authority, how their ideas and arguments spread and diffuse by way of the media, and how they shape the assumptions of global networks of activists, philanthropists, journalists, and academics. Then, for each group, drawing on their main works, I describe how they define the social implications of climate change and the barriers to addressing the problem, their vision of a future society and their favored policy actions, their outlook on nature and technology, and their views on politics and social change. In the conclusion, I discuss the need for investment in media and public forums that strengthen our civic capacity to learn, debate, and collaborate in ways that take advantage of different discourses, ideas and voices.
Importance of connected communities to flood resilienceNeil Dufty
Floodplain risk management and emergency management will never protect all Victorian communities in all floods. There will always be some residual risk for communities, meaning that the focus will be on how they look after themselves particularly in large flood events. This self-ability to prepare, respond and recover will largely determine how quickly communities return to normal functioning – a measure of flood resilience.
There is a relatively large body of psychological research that identifies the factors determining people’s flood preparedness, appropriate response and effective recovery. However, according to research into disaster resilient communities, not only is the participation of individuals required, but also collective action. Several researchers have found that community connectedness (especially ‘social capital’) is a critical factor in the ability of a community to recover after a disaster.
Social capital has been defined as the ‘networks, norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit’ (Putnam, 1995). Research into recent disasters around the world, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, has shown the benefits of social capital in providing resources for a faster and more efficient recovery. Some recent post-flood evaluations conducted in Victoria also indicate the importance of social capital in flood response and recovery. Research by the Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development has shown the need for social capital formation in building general community resilience across the state.
There are several implications of these findings for floodplain and emergency agencies including the need to work with community developers in state and local government to assess and strengthen community connections through social capital formation in flood-prone Victorian communities. This should be done as a preparation for flooding to enable the different types of social capital to work in communities during and after a flood.
Another implication is that community flood education and engagement programs such as FloodSafe should include content that helps people and communities learn how to form and use social capital as part of flood preparedness.
Virtual networks and social epidemics: the convergence of two powersClaudia Berbeo
The White Paper, VIRTUAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL EPIDEMICS: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO POWERS shows how virtual social networks operate and how desired goals may be converted into epidemics. Understanding these two phenomena and using them jointly may produce major changes and milestones in enterprises, communities and nations.
Cities have long birthed advances in the sciences, arts, human rights, business and government. Millions of people have moved to cities for better lives or services unavailable elsewhere.
But as cities grow, so are problems stemming from stretched transportation, energy and water infrastructure.
The Zeitgeist Movement - A Slideshow for Independant Lecturesguestcf4820
An overview of money's detriment to society, and outlining the main mechanisms which perpetuate associated institutions.
The implementation of the Scientific Method to society, in an attempt to promote personal and societal growth and awareness.
Overview of the Venus Project; it's aims' and what fundamental processes it recognizes and acts in accordance to.
NOTE: It's important that you are familiar with the information before using it. Also, this is to serve as a basic outline, it is by no means static, and should serve as a template. It is also not free from error, I'm sure. So make sure you check the content beforehand.
The Canadian socio-economy has been experiencing difficulties since the early 1970s. Neither the New Public Management nor the Program Review experiments of the 1990s succeeded in generating effective repairs. After a long episode in the application of redistribution to assuage those hurt by the governance failures, new forms of organization and mechanisms of coordination are beginning to provide bottom up alternatives to government.
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Permaculture Patterning, a design framework for systemic transformationLilian Ricaud
How do we change the system(s) we live in ? By essence a system is an inherently complex web of relationships. Systems thinking researcher Donella Meadows has given us a map of leverage points to act on a system but there is no practical plan as to where to start effectively to trigger systemic change.
Interestingly around the late seventies, two systems thinkers/practitioners developed practical design frameworks for systems transformation.
The first framework, Permaculture, is an integrated approach to designing agro-ecological systems developed by ecological scientist Bill Mollison. Permaculture focussed initially on developing a resilient “permanent-agriculture” but it was expanded to stand also for "permanent culture," as it was seen that social aspects were integral to a truly sustainable system. Although it is still not widely recognized by either the scientific community or the general public, Permaculture has developed a very powerful set of analytical and design tools for whole systems transformation.
The second framework, Pattern Languages, was developed by architect Christopher Alexander to build human settlements and “living” architectural systems. If Alexander’s Pattern Language focusses on built structures, it also encompasses a social dimension. Although Alexander’s work hasn’t taken off in the architectural field it deeply inspired software programming and a growing number of disciplines.
Both frameworks share a common approach to systems design called patterning.
While design builds structures by assembling elements, patterning can be seen as a branch of design that builds systems by weaving relationships.
In this paper we look at the commonalities and differences between the two approaches, discuss how they could be used by systems thinking practitioners and propose Permaculture Patterning as a new framework for systems design and transformation.
: This article tracks the definitional debates on social capital to demonstrate
the many-sided nature of it. Referring to the relational nature of social capital, this
paper regards it as an output of cross-border cooperation. The basis of social capital
is social interaction, and cross-border cooperation facilitates and reinforces it in equal
measure across national borders. Therefore, this article considers cross-border cooperation as one way to generate formal/informal, linking, bonding, bridging, transnational and other varieties of social capital.
Cities have long birthed advances in the sciences, arts, human rights, business and government. Millions of people have moved to cities for better lives or services unavailable elsewhere.
But as cities grow, so are problems stemming from stretched transportation, energy and water infrastructure.
The Zeitgeist Movement - A Slideshow for Independant Lecturesguestcf4820
An overview of money's detriment to society, and outlining the main mechanisms which perpetuate associated institutions.
The implementation of the Scientific Method to society, in an attempt to promote personal and societal growth and awareness.
Overview of the Venus Project; it's aims' and what fundamental processes it recognizes and acts in accordance to.
NOTE: It's important that you are familiar with the information before using it. Also, this is to serve as a basic outline, it is by no means static, and should serve as a template. It is also not free from error, I'm sure. So make sure you check the content beforehand.
The Canadian socio-economy has been experiencing difficulties since the early 1970s. Neither the New Public Management nor the Program Review experiments of the 1990s succeeded in generating effective repairs. After a long episode in the application of redistribution to assuage those hurt by the governance failures, new forms of organization and mechanisms of coordination are beginning to provide bottom up alternatives to government.
Future of wealth - Insights from Discussions Building on an Initial Perspecti...Future Agenda
The initial perspective on the Future of Wealth kicked off the Future Agenda 2.0 global discussions taking place through 2015. This summary builds on the initial view and is updated as we progress the futureagenda2.0 programme. www.futureagenda.org
Permaculture Patterning, a design framework for systemic transformationLilian Ricaud
How do we change the system(s) we live in ? By essence a system is an inherently complex web of relationships. Systems thinking researcher Donella Meadows has given us a map of leverage points to act on a system but there is no practical plan as to where to start effectively to trigger systemic change.
Interestingly around the late seventies, two systems thinkers/practitioners developed practical design frameworks for systems transformation.
The first framework, Permaculture, is an integrated approach to designing agro-ecological systems developed by ecological scientist Bill Mollison. Permaculture focussed initially on developing a resilient “permanent-agriculture” but it was expanded to stand also for "permanent culture," as it was seen that social aspects were integral to a truly sustainable system. Although it is still not widely recognized by either the scientific community or the general public, Permaculture has developed a very powerful set of analytical and design tools for whole systems transformation.
The second framework, Pattern Languages, was developed by architect Christopher Alexander to build human settlements and “living” architectural systems. If Alexander’s Pattern Language focusses on built structures, it also encompasses a social dimension. Although Alexander’s work hasn’t taken off in the architectural field it deeply inspired software programming and a growing number of disciplines.
Both frameworks share a common approach to systems design called patterning.
While design builds structures by assembling elements, patterning can be seen as a branch of design that builds systems by weaving relationships.
In this paper we look at the commonalities and differences between the two approaches, discuss how they could be used by systems thinking practitioners and propose Permaculture Patterning as a new framework for systems design and transformation.
: This article tracks the definitional debates on social capital to demonstrate
the many-sided nature of it. Referring to the relational nature of social capital, this
paper regards it as an output of cross-border cooperation. The basis of social capital
is social interaction, and cross-border cooperation facilitates and reinforces it in equal
measure across national borders. Therefore, this article considers cross-border cooperation as one way to generate formal/informal, linking, bonding, bridging, transnational and other varieties of social capital.
Panel IV: “Translating National Strategies to Practice”
Gerry Galloway, Research Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland, Maryland, USA
Keynote "The National Imperative"
Lauren Alexander Augustine, Associate Executive Director, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C., USA
Panel II: “Approaches to Infrastructure Resiliency in Different National Contexts”
Daniel Kull, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank, Geneva, Switzerland
Panel II: “Approaches to Infrastructure Resiliency in Different National Contexts”
Jaffer Khan, Director, MARG Institute of Design and Architecture Swarnabhoomi – MIDAS, Chennai, India
Panel I: "International Disaster and Risk Reduction, Sustainability and Resiliency"
Wolfgang Kroeger, Professor, ETH Risk Center, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Panel III: "Appropriateness of Resiliency as a National Strategy"
Joao Ribeiro, General Director of the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC), Maputo, Mozambique
Blockchain angels or demons of a free international. Yalamova, Rossitsa.
"Decentralization and Democratization" is the main promise behind the distributed ledger technology that attracted enthusiasts looking for ways to prop our ailing global socio-economic system. Not surprisingly its best known application "Bitcoin" comes as the "panacea" against the worst offender in the neoliberal order, the Financial Industry. Trends, fads and myths about blockchain technology fuel the imagination allowing for proliferation of hypes and disappointment. This paper offers a discussion of possible blockchain applications for polycentric governance of socio-economic systems in light of building sustainability and resilience. On the opposite side I will analyze the possibility for misuse (e.g. the Internet of Things) of the technology to build ever stronger centralized control system lacking adaptive capacity and leading to total collapse.
Schlagwörter: Adaptive Systems
Blockchain
Globalization
Collapse of Complex Societies
Global Future Changes and Millennium ProjectJerome Glenn
Overview of global challenges, strategies, new technologies to improve the prospects for humanity from the Millennium Project and its annual State of the Future report
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Socio-Managerial Risk Evaluation In Technologically-Dominated Human Societiesinventionjournals
The article presents the results of a theoretical analysis and its reflection in human societies, concerning the domination of ultra-complex technologies. References shall be made to the situation of ultracomplex technologies between ‖risk incubators‖ and ‖development incubators‖, in addition to a presentation of the conceptual basis of the risks implied by technological functionalism, the manifest tendency to revive ‖ecotechnology‖ and the risks entailed by the diffusionism between technologies and various technological cultures. An essential conclusion of the present study is the fact that the operational linear economy still does not offer the proper position and importance to the technical risks entailed within the functioning of the technological production ensemble. Moreover, the authors suggest a reconceptualization of the risk of technological functionalism, which should also be accompanied by a revival of ‖eco-technology‖
In preparing for impact of emerging technologies on tomorrow’s aMalikPinckney86
In preparing for impact of emerging technologies on tomorrow’s adaptability, recourse, and employment, the cliché‐ ‘Change, the evident constant’ seems to be the answer to this adaptive process!
If we are changing, we are growing. If we are not growing, then we are not living. Thence, it is important that we keep changing/adapting to the technological requirements being driven by the newer innovations. In the age and era of the human quest for knowledge and the desire to unfold the mysteries of nature (which is always self‐challenging), technology and human life cannot be separated. Technology brings with it both shades: positive and negative.
Society seems to have a cyclical dependence on technology. We use technology inadvertently in all walks of our life; depend on technology in our daily life and our needs and demands for technology keep on rising. In a way, so as to say, are now shackled in the chains of the same. We use technology to travel, to learn, to communicate, to work, and to live in comfort. Come to think of it, I guess, there is no act of human kind today, where technology does not intrude or is not depended on us!! The advancements in the field of technology and its deployment to serve humankind (as per design and intent) was a good idea, but getting tied up in knots of it has also caused us concerns, besides the phenomenon of cyclic upset it brings with itself, in the process of its evolution. The biggest challenge looking at us in our faces is to determine the type of future we need to have and then create relevant technologies which will simplify the way we do things.[1]
Besides the plethora of challenges, which poor application/ misuse of technology and its over‐dependence pose to human kinds, the one I would like to focus on in this note is the impact of technological development/evolution on employment and education empowerment. Technological
innovation will squeeze many people in the short term but will lead to overall higher levels of wealth in the long term. This period of uncomfortable maladjustment and dangerous concentrations of wealth to a handful of a lucky few can be minimized if educational leaders accelerate the changes necessary to adapt.
Vividly, there are many examples of technological advances, which have upset employment, prior to creating more opportunities by virtue of its proper deployment. As I mentioned, the relationship between human and technology is cyclical. The travel agents closed shops when web enabled applications got popular. Train tickets, cinema hall ticket bookings, airline ticketing, and paying bills got so much simpler, but many (offering agent services) lost their jobs. Cyclic as I mentioned, these applications returned the jobs to human but only to the adaptive and skilled, in the form of employment opportunities, in the form of call centers, data centers, research and customer support, and service in the applied fields connected to the application. Even an article in Fortune Ma ...
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How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
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Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
3. Vision: Better understand society (collective decision making
and behavior, ...) and its dependency on main driving factors
(resources, environment, demographic changes, finances, ...)
Examples:
1. World financial, economic and
debt crisis
2. Social and political instabilities
3. Global environmental change
4. Organized crime, cybercrime
5. Quick spreading of emerging
diseases
We Face Intensified and New, Global Problems
4. Networking is Good … But Promotes Cascading Effects
§ We now have a global exchange of people,
money, goods, information, ideas…
§ Globalization and technological change have
created a strongly coupled and
interdependent world
Network infrastructures
create pathways for
disaster spreading!
Need adaptive
decoupling strategies.
5. EU project IRRIIS: E. Liuf (2007) Critical Infrastructure protection, R&D
view
Failure in the continental European electricity grid on November 4, 2006
Cascading Effect and Blackout in the
European Power Grid
7. A Letter to the Queen of England
To: Her Majesty The Queen
From: The British Academy
22 July 2009
MADAM,
When Your Majesty visited the London School of Economics last November,
you quite rightly asked: why had nobody noticed that the credit crunch was
on its way? … So where was the problem? Everyone seemed to be doing
their own job properly on its own merit. And according to standard
measures of success, they were often doing it well. The failure was to see
how collectively this added up to a series of interconnected imbalances over
which no single authority had jurisdiction. This, combined with the
psychology of herding and the mantra of financial and policy gurus, lead to
a dangerous recipe. Individual risks may rightly have been viewed as small,
but the risk to the system as a whole was vast.
We have the honour to remain, Madam,
Your Majesty’s most humble and obedient servants
14. Are Derivatives Financial Weapons
of Mass Destruction?
Buffett warns on investment 'time bomb'
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction "
Warren Buffett
The rapidly growing trade in derivatives poses a "mega-catastrophic
risk" for the economy ..., legendary investor Warren Buffett has warned.
The world's second-richest man made the comments in his famous and plain-spoken
"annual letter to shareholders", excerpts of which have been published by Fortune
magazine.
The derivatives market has exploded in recent years, with investment banks selling
billions of dollars worth of these investments to clients as a way to off-load or manage
market risk.
But Mr Buffett argues that such highly complex financial instruments are time bombs
and "financial weapons of mass destruction" that could harm not only their buyers
and sellers, but the whole economic system. (BBC, 4 March, 2003)
15. The Flash Crash on May 6, 2010
The flash crash turned solid assets into penny stocks within minutes.
Was an interaction effect, no criminal act, ‘fat finger’, or error.
600 billion dollars evaporated in 20 minutes
18. Network vulnerability can be reduced by
§ backup strategies, redundancies,
reserves, alternatives (‚plan B‘),
§ stabilizing real-time feedback
§ flexible, decentralized, self-organization
and self-control mechanisms
§ mutually compatible time scales and
frictional effects
§ symmetrical interactions
§ a simplification of complex system
designs
§ diversity
§ limitation of system size
§ reduced connectivity
§ dynamic decoupling strategies
§ transparency, accountability,
responsibility, and awareness
Drivers of Systemic Risks and How to Respond
Drivers of systemic risks:
§ reduced redundancies
§ more networking
§ higher complexity
§ faster dynamics
§ high pace of innovation
19. Cascading Effects During Financial Crises
With all the Big Data of Human Activities Now
Becoming Available, What Could We Do?
20. Instruments to Explore the World
Hubble, Nasa
Connect web experiments with data mining and
modelling tools to reach an acceleration of knowledge
generation as in the Human Genome Project
21. Global
Participatory
Platform
Living
Earth
Simulator
create new technology
provide data
Innovation
Accelerator
Planetary
Nervous
System
Create systems
to sense &
understand
Turn data into information
What is?
Develop models
to simulate &
predict
Turn information into
knowledge
What if?
Build platforms
to explore & interact
Turn knowledge into wisdom
What for?
27. Happiness
GDP
Consider social capital:
§ Solidarity, cooperativeness,
§ compliance,
§ reputation, trust,
§ attention, curiosity,
§ happiness, health,
§ environmental care…
Green = Happiest
Blue
Purple
Orange
Red = Least Happy
Grey = Data not available
New Compasses for Decision-Makers
Goal: Create
indices better
than GDP/capita,
considering health,
environment, social
well-being, …
to promote
sustainability
43. Decentralized Can Outsmart Centralized Control
Top-down regulation
Selfish optimization
Other-regarding self-organization
44. Cascading Effects During Financial Crises
How ever selfish man may be
supposed, there are evidently some
principles in his nature, which
interest him in the fortune of others,
and render their happiness necessary
to him, though he derives nothing
from it. Of this kind is pity or
compassion, the emotion which we
feel for the misery of others, when
we either see it, or are made to
conceive it in a very lively manner.
That we often derive sorrow from
the sorrow of others, is a matter of
fact too obvious to require any
instances to prove it; for this
sentiment, like all the other original
passions of human nature, is by no
means confined to the virtuous and
humane, though they perhaps may
feel it with the most exquisite
sensibility. The greatest ruffian, the
most hardened violator of the laws
of society, is not altogether without.