Category: Policy
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“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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
