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Category: Digital disruption, Innovation/social innovation, Strategy and the long term

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE WEB

I wrote this paper based on a “reflect and report” role at Brave Conversations, a 2-day Web Science 2017 conference held in Canberra, Australia.

The conference, convened by Intersticia and the Intersticia Foundation, was supported by the Web Science Trust, the Ethics Centre and the Australian Information Industry Association.

The paper is not an official conference summary or report.

Although it integrates the insights and ideas that emerged over the two days, it does not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of any of the participants.

Its purpose is to provide a sense of what was discussed and to provide a starting point for further discussion of these ideas in subsequent and continuing “brave conversations” both in Australia and around the world.



Attachments: Web sciences paper MSWv2.0FINALApril2017

April 25, 2017 by Martin Stewart-Weeks

Category: Innovation/social innovation, Strategy and the long term

GROUP GENIUS

A very helpful essay pulling together the 14 axioms, evolved by Matt and Gail Taylor and which form the basis of the exceptional work The Difference, PwC’s collaborative problem solving practice, does and which is now the basis for The Impact Assembly’s work on social impact.

 



Attachments: Fundamental Principles of Collaborative Design

April 9, 2017 by Martin Stewart-Weeks

Category: Digital disruption, Government and public sector reform, Strategy and the long term

REFLECTIONS ON DIGITAL GOVERNMENT

I gave an interview to Intermedium as part of a series of conferences they ran late last year to explore the next phase of digital transformation in government.

Themes were around mutual respect, humility and the need for digital innovators to understand deeply the contours and constraints of the world they seek to unsettle.

It’s a paradox, I guess, that innovators have to invest heavily in getting under the skin, and showing real respect for intrinsic complexity and contention, of the cultures they then seek to change, often dramatically.

I also explored a couple of other ideas, one of which is captured by the challenge for government more and more to “be digital” as opposed to “do digital”, however well.  And the other reflects a view that, in the end, the future of government is government (as opposed to the notion that “the future of government is digital”).

The interview is in two parts and there is a short preview video as well (all available at this link)



URL: http://www.intermedium.com.au/events/martin-stewart-weeks-preview-video

March 5, 2017 by Martin Stewart-Weeks

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