11/05/2022

Democrazy: The perils of unsanity in politics and public affairs

Democracy, broadly considered, involves several activities. One is in the assignation of power, the standard being to do so by the citizenry in question. Not discussed so often is the scope of power in question — does it involve everything that happens within a geographic space or are there conceptual space questions, including matters of expertise and perhaps social norms? This has to do with what is political and what is not. This essay is directed at some such questions.

https://medium.com/@ken-tingey/democrazy-ec32fdaf4372

10/24/2022

[G20/T20 publication addendum] Proposal to Convert IPCC6 Documentation to Expressive, Process-Oriented, Digitized Forms

The following is background information and detail of a proposed effort to operationalize existing climate science and policy. We anticipate that a fulsome effort to do so will require approximately three years of effort. We recommend Bali as a capacity development area for such efforts, supplemented by activity in both Poland and the United States as proposed in our referenced T20 Policy Brief.

This document is to serve as a discussion piece in the creation of such a project, principally by G20-related institutions and states.

09/02/2022

[G20/T20 publication] Capacity development in enhanced multilevel governance based on a tripartite ‘head (cognitive), hand (digital), heart (music performance)’ model

Meeting the needs of people is not a game (Tingey & Manicki, 2022c). It requires applying knowledge in a civilized environment where systems support ongoing results. The head, the heart, and the hand should be involved for understanding, buy-in, and momentum. Multilateral efforts have identified needed knowledge—IPCC (2022) and One Health (WHO, FAO, and OIE, 2019) in particular. Three capacity development clusters, two in the Eastern Hemisphere and another in the Western Hemisphere, are to convert knowledge and governance norms to proper digital forms. These can activate a proposed urban health data collection model for ongoing support and guidance.

08/24/2022

China and Taiwan need to reassert the United Front and its objectives

Perhaps the Global Development Initiative can be the new United Front, requiring more than “feeling the stones to cross the river” as advised by Deng Xiaoping.

https://ken-tingey.medium.com/china-and-taiwan-need-to-reassert-the-united-front-and-its-objectives-e2735c09cfd0

07/20/2022

Governance is Possible

A choice is being forced on us.

https://ken-tingey.medium.com/governance-is-possible-40025452cda6

07/15/2022

Update on National Health Systems Based on the Polish Model

Poland’s history of public health is unparalleled in the world. This dates to times of Polish positivism in the 19th century when serious efforts were taken to apply scientific knowledge to problems of society and the well-being of the people.

06/23/2022

What games are being played? Global Policy Forum 2022

On the eve of the T20 policy brief publication, the 2022 Global Policy Forum (GPF) constitutes the last word with respect to T20 input for the Indonesia round. Earlier discussions were centered on a need to hold fast to longstanding G20 commitments with respect to health, climate, digital growth, and sustainability and largely ignore the elephant in the room, the war. These sessions were principally about the elephant.

05/14/2022

Twitter is twaddle

Public discourse needs to be based on substantive pathways of thought, not some means of patching up messes stemming from unstructured blather.

https://ken-tingey.medium.com/twitter-is-twaddle-f10ceba8fd27

05/05/2022

Expressive Knowledge,

The Seminal Global Public Good

The following analysis with recommendations is based on review of the presentations and discussions carried out in two programs, the three-day 2022 CSIS Global Dialogue (2022 CSIS-GD) sponsored by CSIS, ADB, ERIA, and T20, and the one-day T20 session sponsored by SCCIC, BAKTI, oesmart 2022, and G20 Indonesia. The meetings took place online from April 27-29, 2022. Commentary on these presentations is included in a section at the end of the paper.

04/28/2022

We have nothing to fear but the ear itself

Here is a plan: Find out what people are good at and reward them for doing it. That is what people need to hear.

https://ken-tingey.medium.com/we-have-nothing-to-fear-but-the-ear-itself-9553fbbed17e

04/26/2022

Fighting algorithms with algorithms

Calling social media’s bluff…

https://ken-tingey.medium.com/fighting-algorithms-with-algorithms-9370906bf6

04/22/2022

Operationalizing

“Empowering Digital Citizens: Making Humane Markets Work in the Digital Age”

Empowering Digital Citizens: Making Humane Markets Work in the Digital Age (EDC) was published on 28 March 2022, collectively by Global Solutions, the Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (GIDE), and THE NEW INSTITUTE. Written by Dennis J. Snower and Paul D. Twomey, the report outlines a comprehensive program for reversing inequities and anomalies in global use of digital systems by the public. EDC considers requirements of empowering citizens through “human-centric digital governance”.

4/12/2022

Bad hobbit

It is really a bad idea to force ignorance onto others

https://ken-tingey.medium.com/bad-hobbit-19c1cf8ed8f

3/24/2022

Rational war in the post-strongman era

Preventing activation of the “Big Zipper”. We must continue to fight wars, but of a different kind. We need to fight for process over prerogative, of rationality and order over chaos and destruction. This involves both our interactions with nature and commitments and enterprises among the people. As an example of what we mean, we published a book in 2015 on the subject — Rational War

https://medium.com/@ken-tingey/rational-war-in-the-post-strongman-era-bca03ddb196f

3/9/2022

Real fellowship — more Slavic, less Varangian

Let the Ukrainians be your guides. As with the Ukrainians, the Kosovars had been ‘all in’ as were the American colonists whose rights and identities had been held in question. We can read about this. We can discuss it. We can come to appreciate it and honor it. We who have not experienced it directly do not know it.

https://medium.com/@ken-tingey/real-fellowship-more-slavic-less-varangian-f203eee63239

2/25/2022

Sustained collective action is the solution

Let the echoes of history tell the story. Ironically, the battles being fought in Northern Ukraine today are the site of the Pripet Marshes, that place that defined the early years of the Slavic peoples, where they could hide their gardens in the face of conquering armies and could stoically survive for centuries as they formed their cultural roots.

https://medium.com/@ken-tingey/sustained-collective-action-is-the-solution-25e150b288b4

01/24/2022

This is not a time to “sit tight and assess”: Do “look up” and fix governance

Governance is effective nowhere. Perhaps some countries make effective use of simple situations, but where realities of nature and of societal preferences and commitments are concerned, the dumpster fires of organization failure rage throughout the world.

https://ken-tingey.medium.com/this-is-not-a-time-to-sit-tight-and-assess-abb1393db771