Category: Policy

• It’s the Biology, Stupid!

  “It’s the biology, stupid! Proxy failures in economic decision making” is a commentary by Pier Luigi Sacco (available here), on a work by Yohan J. John et.al.: “Dead rats, dopamine, performance metrics, and peacock tails: Proxy failure is an inherent risk in goal-oriented systems” (also available on ResearchGate) Where the “Dead rats, … peacock tails”…

  walterstiers

  2024-08-07

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• “you have to be sincere”

  3 Ideas for Communicating Across the Political Divide by Isaac Saul (TED) Does the simple message “1,000 illegal aliens were arrested by US Border Patrol after crossing the southern border on Monday.”give the same message as “1,000 undocumented immigrants turned themselves in to US Border Patrol after crossing the southern border on Monday.” First, we…

  walterstiers

  2024-07-16

  #Sensemaking, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Lead with purpose, govern in partnership

  Also by  Professor Mazzucato from the IIPP: “MISSION CRITICAL 01 Statecraft for the 21st century“ This research draws on expert interviews and builds out from the seminal work of author Professor Mariana Mazzucato at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). She has established clear criteria for missions (Mazzucato, 2019) and made the case for mission-oriented government (Mazzucato,…

  walterstiers

  2024-07-15

  #sense-making, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, economy, government

• Countries must decide what missions can help direct their economies.

  Industrial strategy is experiencing a renaissance. Getting the details right matter. Mission-oriented industrial strategy needs to be more than words if we want to avoid missions becoming part of the problem, not the solution. This report (Mission-oriented industrial strategy: global insights) is based on research conducted over the past several years, led by Professor Mazzucato and…

  walterstiers

  2024-07-15

  #sense-making, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Policy, Science, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, business, economy, leadership, management

• Market forces are not enough to halt climate change

  A very interesting opinion has been published a while ago in the FT: “Market forces are not enough to halt climate change“ I like to repeat the quote used in the “Nature Anthropocene briefing of July 5“, with following comments:The desire for financial returns will mean that fossil fuels continue to be good investments, thus…

  walterstiers

  2024-07-07

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• When liars are considered honest

  When honesty relies on sincerity rather than accuracy People in liberal democracies value honesty in their politicians and prioritize honesty over ‘delivering the goods’. How can serial liars be considered honest? This conundrum can be approached from a variety of angles. Here we apply the lens of recent theoretical work that has identified distinct subjective…

  walterstiers

  2024-05-24

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, honesty, trust, truth

• Getting Things Right

  The article “Getting Things Right; Diagnose and Design in The Evolution of Community Provisioning Systems” tackle the great questions behind the observation of “Why do some governments, organisations and community leaders seem to get it wrong in confronting a crisis?” Why do others succeed? Is there something to be learned from how the different responses…

  walterstiers

  2024-05-21

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, Complexity, Sustainability

• Participatory Action Research

  Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research that prioritizes the value of experiential knowledge for tackling problems caused by unequal and harmful social systems, and for envisioning and implementing alternatives. PAR involves the participation and leadership of those people experiencing issues, who take action to produce emancipatory social change, through conducting systematic research…

  walterstiers

  2024-05-14

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, participatory-action-research, problem-solving

• policymakers: enable individuals

  Social, environmental, political and economic challenges — such as pandemics and epidemics, environmental degradation and community violence — require taking stock of how to promote behaviours that benefit individuals and society at large. Multidisciplinary meta-analyses of the individual and social-structural determinants of behaviour (for example, beliefs and norms, respectively) and the efficacy of behavioural change…

  walterstiers

  2024-05-14

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, behaviour, behaviour-change

• How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future – Who is next ?

  A stunning speech from Scott Galloway on TED, tackling the issues of western (US) society. However, the talk is about US, the issues are not just limited to the US, and can easily be found back in the modern western world. As such, this talk might be inspiring. In a scorching talk, marketing professor and…

  walterstiers

  2024-05-07

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Life Ideas, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• Your Name Matters (this is not a joke)

  Best student paper award at the 2023 ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO’23) was “30 Million Canvas Records Reveal Widespread Sequential Bias and System-design Induced Surname Initial Disparity in Grading” authored by Jiaxin Pei, Zhihan Wang, and Jun Li. The widespread adoption of learning management systems in educational institutions has…

  walterstiers

  2024-04-18

  #Sensemaking, Complexity, Information Technology, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, assessment, education

• Equality is essential for sustainability.

  In following, I resume 3 recent articles on this most valuable topic, related to the survival of our environment, societies and species. Why the world cannot afford the rich Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than…

  walterstiers

  2024-03-15

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Innovation Games, Life Ideas, Policy, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, bill-gates, climate-change, economics, economy

• the problem of algorithmic recommendations

  I just want to point out an MIT Technology Review article on three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are “A machine-learning algorithm walks into a bar. The bartender asks: ‘What’ll you have?’ The algorithm says: ‘What’s everyone else having?’” Chet Haase (Google) Software engineer Chet Haase’s joke sums…

  walterstiers

  2024-03-12

  #sense-making, AI, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Policy, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, data-science, machine-learning, technology

• AI Resources – A Worry

  ChatGPT is the first non-human addition to the list of people who shaped science… But also we have a worry related to this fact, as told in the (Dec.19,2023) Quote of the day “What worries me is we don’t have the resources to make sure that academic AI continues to be a centre of gravity.…

  walterstiers

  2024-01-10

  AI, Complexity, Information Technology, Policy, Science, Uncategorized

  #HumanAI

• Models .. Right or Wrong:

  Often attributed to John Maynard Keynes, but the rooted elsewhere: “It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.” Carveth Read, “Logic: Deductive and Inductive” 4th edition -1920, p.351 You all have probably heard the story about Malcolm Forbes, who once got lost floating for miles in one of his famous balloons and finally…

  walterstiers

  2024-01-07

  #Sensemaking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty

• Yes, it is an ART; but it leads tot non-decisions

  Anthony Judge 2021 blog on “The art of non-decision-making” identifies 14 aspects of the art of non-decision-making based on experiences serving in, and observing, a range of international organisations. 1. Definitional games: This is the process of defining categories in one way in one document or organizational unit, and then defining them in another way…

  walterstiers

  2023-11-23

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty

• Toekomstbeelden om op te bouwen

  In tijden waarin er veel verandert is het nodig om de flexibiliteit en hetaanpassingsvermogen van de samenleving en het landschap waarinwe leven te vergroten. Om problemen op te lossen die in recente decennia zijn veroorzaakt kunnen de oplossingen uit die tijd niet langer gebruikt worden, juist omdat ze aan de bron staan van de problemen…

  walterstiers

  2023-11-23

  #Sensemaking, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Stikstof – is het echt de landbouw?

  Net een erg leuk, inzichtelijk en compact boek gevonden over het Nederlandse Stikstof verhaal, waar ook Vlaanderen nog veel uit kan leren, en misschien zelfs kan handelen. Thomas Oudman heeft recent “Uit de Shit – Een pleidooi voor meer boeren en minder vee” gepubliceerd. Zijn betoog: Het kán: de stikstofcrisis oplossen en boeren perspectief geven.…

  walterstiers

  2023-09-12

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Policy, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• Paul Verhaeghe – Onbehagen

  “Onbehagen”, het recente boek van Paul Verhaeghe, is een meesterlijke studie van hoe onze cultuur en samenleving inwerken op ons geestelijk welbevindenOndanks de welvaart op alle vlakken heerst er een groot onbehagen in onze maatschappij. Dit gevoel is van alle tijden en maakt deel uit van ons mens-zijn. Paul Verhaeghe laat in dit boek zien…

  walterstiers

  2023-08-22

  #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• Wicked7 – looking for “Regenerative” solution

  12 jul 2022, TedX@Athens. Christian Sarkar makes bold statements: Globalization has failed. Income inequality has exploded. COVID hasn’t disappeared yet. And War is at the gate. What can be done in your neighborhood, in your city? We learn the lessons of regeneration from Palermo, Sicily – and the (website and) book by Christian Sarkar, Philip…

  walterstiers

  2023-08-10

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Policy, Sustainability, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• Design for Well-Being and Sustainability

  Design for Well-Being and Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework of the Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Reuse Platform in the Circular Economy investigates how to infuse well-being components into the circular economy. Based on the literature review, it organized and analyzed the extant evidence of related well-being-based research to develop an ecosystem model of a sustainable product–service system…

  walterstiers

  2023-08-06

  #sense-making, Active Inference, AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

• Facts are not enough

  Claude Garcia & Patrick Waeber developed a framework based on behavioural and cognitive sciences, game theory, and set theory that helps us understand decisionmaking in the context of uncertainty. It was published recently in a nice article on the researchfeatures of researchoutreach. Every single day we make thousands of decisions. Even if it is unclear…

  walterstiers

  2023-05-19

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Policy

  #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• How Capitalism WASTES Billions

  Mariana Mazzucato’s Tour De Force Professor Mariana Mazzucato is one of the world’s most exciting economic thinkers.Her new book – THE BIG CON – exposes how consultancy firms are eating up billions upon billions of pounds working on government projects and using the capitalism game-rules. You won’t think of our economic system the same way…

  walterstiers

  2023-04-22

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• Small steps

  Small steps for mankind: Modeling the emergence of cumulative culture from joint active inference communication discusses a testable deep active inference formulation of social behavior and accompanying simulations of cumulative culture in two steps: First: cast cultural transmission as a bi-directional process of communication that induces a generalized synchrony (operationalized as a particular convergence) between…

  walterstiers

  2023-03-28

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens