geoff mulgan - co-creating democracy, six spring school 2011

Geoff Mulgan

Co- creation production design llaboration operation

Social movements, democracy, cooperative movement – spirit of ‘with’ not ‘to’, ‘for’

Re-discovered by business in 1990s: involving consumers in design

Re-invented through technology (open source &c)

Cyclical issue in politics – communes, Soviets, participatory decision-making

Peer to Patient

Challenge.gov

Resilience supported by new decision tools

16 key US security agencies use a wiki-style application to share knowledge in real time

Over 30,000 articles and 114 new articles and more than 4,800 edits to articles added each workday

Website that tells people what happened; what others are saying, positive as well as

negative feedback

3,800 people with expertise or interest in trans-Atlantic security issues from 124 countries logged in over five days in February for thematic conversations led by senior officials and scholars in Europe, Russia, China and the United States.

Produced recommendations that call for NATO to develop a civilian arm and the European Union to create its own intelligence agency.

4,000 participants

10,000 logins124 countries

5 days10 streams

26 online hosts75 facilitators

PowerDivisionSpecialist expertise ‘not enough evenings in the week’So where are the best areas of

promise, and the best ones to avoid?