This category contains posts that cover anything related to policymaking.
When new technologies emerge, it is always an important question: what can we do for the market to fully express itself? If regulators need to intervene in order to make sure that the market is healthy, with a plurality of players competing in order to provide the best possible service to those that use the […]
Policies and Monopolies Read More »
Has the time come for universal basic income from being a niche initiative that only a few people have understood and embraced, to be deployed everywhere? Basic income initiatives have enjoyed experimentation all over the world over the course of the past 10 years. And with the pandemic, they have seen a decisive acceleration and
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The lack of adequate response by so many governments to the pandemic, even when plenty of positive and negative examples were already available from other countries that have been impacted before them, is a sign that maybe the mental models that are applied to the decision making are inadequate. The pandemic is not merely exponential.
Jolting Adaptability Read More »
It has been decided only by a slim majority of the voters, but the fact that Brexit can happen peacefully, within the framework of the EU’s agreements, is itself a triumph. Nation States are under the simultaneous forces of amalgamation from above, and of decentralization from below. They are resisting, but can’t efficiently resort to
Triumph and Tragedy of Brexit Read More »
In the 21st century, all regulations and all governance should either be or aim to be digital, as soon as possible. What does that mean? What are the implications? What is the context of regulations and governance being digital? We went through digital transformations many times. It started with the first computers in the fifties
Digital Governance Read More »
In a context of exponential technological development, old centralized models of governance may be outdated. Opportunity may come from a new trend towards decentralization, which allows organizations facing global challenges to trial a range of novel solutions adapted to local contexts. In this perspective, what might be the role of the United Nations? It could
Blockchain Technology And Decentralized Governance Read More »
Long election cycles, and slow legislation are a natural part of representative democracy, and are inadequate to the needs of a world that is rapidly changing. Analyzing, proposing, discussing, approving, implementing measuring and updating laws and regulations must be possible today using technologies with orders of magnitude finer grained feedback than previously. Invited by Intergruppo
Exponential legislation Read More »
Bitnation (disclosure: I am an Advisor) uses the Blockchain to help refugees to Europe, allowing them to take part of the modern flux of technologies. There are many low tech needs that those who help refugees can provide. From food, to shelter, advice, and support. Many of the displaced have smartphones, as has been maliciously noted
Hi-tech emergency help to refugees Read More »
A new technology needs breathing space, in order to blossom into multiple interesting applications. It looks like drones are being instead suffocated under the weight of excessive regulation, which will delay their development. At least that is the strongest message from Drone Expo, which was held in Bergamo, Italy on May 17-18, 2015. The conversations were
Excessive regulation of drones is hindering the development of innovative applications Read More »
There will be those who say that this is just rhetoric. But if it is—and I say this as a missionary atheist—then it is an “in the beginning was the Word” kind of rhetoric which creates the worlds drawn from the words. Making real what for others is not even imaginable. We need not fear
The ability to imagine and create new worlds Read More »
