Entrepreneur, author, analyst. Anil is backwards on this effort to create a question + answer site for the White House. The question isn’t how to collect the best/most qualified talent to contribute. It’s how to turn the best/most useful ideas into action. All sorts of useful governance ideas out in the wild. Recreating that isn’t going to get [...]
Our elite class – before it became a function of wealth – was designed to abstract the votes of the masses into a manageable form. A lot of people have been thinking about how best to adapt that structure. Here’s one solution: Instead of voting for preselected candidates, you assign voting power to whoever you [...]
Chris is (rightly) not OK with building legitimacy by destroying core infrastructure and destabilizing core governance services. Interfering with a health facilities 1) delegitimizes coalition forces and the Afghan government; damages the health (and therefore economy) of the local population; provides propaganda material for Taliban forces; hurts the relationship between NGOs and ISAF; and turns [...]
Here’s a smart metric to keep in mind when packaging a governance platform. Baseline electricity requirement for optimum human development is 4,000kWh annually per person. The report. Sign up for my newsletter.
CNet – That not-very-welcoming rule is part of a 2005 law called the Real ID Act, which takes effect in just over three months. It says that driver’s licenses from states that have not agreed to Real ID mandates from the Department of Homeland Security, or which have not requested a deadline extension, can no [...]