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Re: Ignoring the ROI of Openness

Philipp Mueller — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:58:03 -0000

Dear Lorena, great point - would love to see a full-blown guest blog from you on the issue. Thank you for the super-interesting paper. One thing I wonder about when looking at value web/network thinking is in how far it is still built on Coase'ian/Olson'ian assumptions (on transaction costs, free riding, collective action dilemmas). That's where I would love to read your thinking on my entry on Coase, Horkheimer/Adorno, Olson and Schelling: http://www.philippmueller.d...

Re: Sketching a Planetary Public Policy Approach

Philipp Mueller — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:49:18 -0000

I completely agree! And have to admit that as the text stands right now, it is not free of technocratic or Western biases... The third dimension "a platform for inter-civilizational discourse" at least hints at the solution that you have outlined.

Re: Julian Assange Is A Middle Man - Politics - The Atlantic

Philipp Mueller — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:03:27 -0000

I am not sure, I would focus too much on Julian Assange. Wikileaks has a fairly sophisticated philosophy/ideology/system beyond Julian and is becoming a structural force in international relations. The asymmetry between securing digital information (hard) and uncovering digital information (easy), will ensure that most data will be available most of the time. For strategists this means that radical transparency becomes a necessary condition. We could lament and remember the golden times of arcana imperii and backroom machinations or move to open statecraft... http://www.philippmueller.d...

Re: Ignoring the ROI of Openness

Philipp Mueller — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:45:46 -0000

Dear Thomas, thank you for drilling down and clarifying the argument! I love your idea of thinking in "benefit dimensions" and believe we can build a framework on it. Some ideas from the retweets:

@semantrack "Governments should not evaluate in terms of ROI but in rate of de-monetarization"
@jonathan_rubin Mueller: Can't use ROI to evaluate success of #socmed, because the value is for the consumer, not producer

anyone else jumping into the debate?

Re: Open Statecraft for a Brave New World

Philipp Mueller — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:50:03 -0000

the difference is not in kind, but in scale. The transaction costs of having dinner in a French village are fairly high for me (I live in Munich). With peer-to-peer media suddenly chatting with my french friends at night, working together, or doing politics becomes possible... and that change in scale transforms collective action qualitatively...

Re: Open Statecraft for a Brave New World

Philipp Mueller — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:38:59 -0000

I agree! :)

Re: Open Statecraft for a Brave New World

Philipp Mueller — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:37:41 -0000

Dear William, I see your point much more clearly now! Thank you!

I personally have much less faith in the power of voting as the main/core/fundamental (whatever-metaphor-we-want-to-use) mode of ensuring a just, fair, and functioning society. Maybe because I am German and we did vote the Nazi party into power.

Therefore, I focus on trying to understand how different political mechanisms (right metaphor?) are impacted by peer-to-peer media and digitization, however, I do believe the job you do, by thinking through one aspect (voting) and then pushing this in the public discourse is very valuable.

Re: Open Statecraft for a Brave New World

Philipp Mueller — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:28:52 -0000

Angelica, I agree that we should re-read Popper (I actually made that point a few years ago in this blog...), but for slightly different reasons: his focus on the "here-and-now" on piece-meal social engineering becomes an important reminder of what can go wrong if we put our sights on very long term objectives and by aspiring to do "Utopian social engineering" we slip into totalitarianisms... (more on this in a future entry).

Re: The Internet of Things and the Emergence of Planetary Public Policy

Philipp Mueller — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:51:08 -0000

:) good points!

Re: Whither the Book?

Philipp Mueller — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:22:54 -0000

Steve, would like to hear more from you. Is it really scarcity that we need to value things or is it just because we come from a cult(ure) of scarcity, we try to artificially recreate it in the digital age? Is the figure of the record collector not highly artificial even in analog times? Mike Masnick would argue, you need to combine the scarce with the plentiful, however, maybe even that is stuck in old thinking. Maybe learning to value abundance is not as difficult as we imagine and maybe even managing value creation in such worlds is doable.

Re: Evangelizing Distributed Leadership

Philipp Mueller — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:48:21 -0000

Ok - Sofia: I want a guest blog titled: "The Myth of the Queen Ant" - you have at least 48 h - else I will appropriate your idea! :)

Re: Lessons from Information Revolution 1.0

Philipp Mueller — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:03:53 -0000

@Florian: great point about read-write (social media) literacy! The question is how do we design massive social media literacy campaigns equivalent to the campaigns we had in the 19th century (think how long it took for people to realize that this was a public policy challenge).

My point, however, was slightly different: what people think matters at the time of the revolution, does not matter in hindsight (doctrinal debates), however, the politics does have macro-historical impact.