regulating institutions of advanced economies are assumed to be efficient; policy-making in developing countries is experimental, "more almost a business mindset, in a way" [...]

the willingness to constrain and for the people to accept constraints is an advantage as we enter into an era in which we don't have unlimited natural resources...[policy makers in developing economies] impose constraints we would view as infringements on the territories we have traditionally viewed as free choice [...]

in the US, 27 million tradable jobs (value creating, ie: manufacturing, farming, raw materials, education, tech svcs.) have been swallowed up by non-tradable jobs (value transference, ie: construction, retail, health care, legal, restaurants) as enabled by over-consumption

part V re: Germans under Schroeder circa 2000 found themselves with a productivity problem, and they were hurt more than helped by the global economy. They focused on unions, job creation and wise outsourcing in order to address inequity of income distribution (though they did not have inequity of income distribution to the extent US does now). Schroeder lost the next election, but his leadership seems to have increased Germany's resilience.

four forces doing everything they can to eliminate freedom on the net:

1. governments concerned about loss of control
2. content owners
3. data miners
4. network operators

...via platforms that control, influence and limit our behaviors.

"When you have lived your entire life sharing everything, it may not have occurred to you that human personality used to be created internally, that the struggle of the soul to understand itself and its place in the universe is an internal struggle, not to be decided by an advertiser and not to be adjusted by an intermediary...we need anonymity."

*Anne Marie Slaughter (@SlaughterAM) on "DIY Foreign Policy": http://livestre.am/Oozk (and part 2!)

"...division was the starting point of foreign policy in The Cold War...[Now] we start with connection...non-state actors...and social actors, all of whom can be connected to each other in ever-changing ways with ever-evolving identities...[Christakis, Gladwell]...what all of us can do to engage in addressing global problems - which is the business of foreign policy: map, connect and create. [...Alaa abd el Fattah on Egypt: 'The internet was a platform where we could connect social groups so we could build critical mass without having to liberate an entire institution'...] We can, in every domain, build local, go global and change the world."

*Ben Rattray (@Brattray) from change.org on "Big Problems, Small Solutions": http://livestre.am/Onf1

"...Even if all you care about is national legislation, the most effective means to achieve that end, in many cases, is not to pursue it directly, it's to win locally, all across the country, engaging people through personal narratives and building a movement much broader in scope and deeper in commitment than what currently exists, and in the process creating an environment within which national change is possible."

We are entering the Anthropocene, a new geological era in which our activities are threatening the Earth´s capacity to regulate itself.

@8:00 ...our old paradigm of analyzing and pushing and predicting parameters into the future aiming at minimalizing environmental impacts is of the past. Now we have to ask ourselves: which are the large environmental processes that we have to be stewards of to keep ourselves safe in the Holocene and could we even...identify the...points where we may expect non-linear change and could we even define a planetary boundary...within which we have a safe operating system for humanity...we can only find NINE boundaries [including climate, ozone depletion, ocean acidification]

@12:00 ...the drama is that 200 countries have to simultaneously start moving in the same direction. But it changes fundamentally our government and management paradigm, from the current linear, command-and-control thinking, looking at efficiencies and optimization, towards a much more flexible and adaptive approach where we recognize that redundancy in social and environmental systems is key to be able to deal with the turbulent era of global change

[persistence to withstand shocks, transformation from crisis to innovation, adaptation]

@13:00 examples of new approach: Latin American farmers, Australian Great Barrier Reef, Swedish wetlands

@15:45 Elinor Ostrom's work clearly shows that we can govern the commons if we invest in trust, local action-based partnerships and cross-scale institutional innovations

[see Umair's write-up after Ostrom's Nobel:
http://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:ddef9f501c1d
-and-
Lewis Hyde (author: The Gift) on The Commons:
http://pinboard.in/u:Taryn/b:a60ab6dde9d3 ]

@17:20 ...incremental change is not an option. We are facing the largest transformative development since industrialization. In fact, what we have to do over the next 40 years is much more dramatic...than what we did when we moved into the situation we're in today.

1. call everything an experiment
2. when you're given the go-ahead from authorities, go fast
3. build up a user base
4. when you achieve your objective, don't be afraid to be nice
5. keep asking, keep re-phrasing the question
6. when you get the microphone, make your point clearly
7. get standing
8. try to get the bureaucrats to threaten you
9. look for over-reaching
10. don't be afraid to fail

Talking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new analysis on China and the post-bailout world, mixed with classic data shows.

http://change-congress.org/ al gore @ 37:00 - "democracy crisis" Q&A 42:00

"do we really want to create a stimulus to get people consuming again...I don't think so..." "persuasive technology...feeding real data back to people...socially quantified self"